2011 Canadian Rockies Trip

Lake Louise Gondola and Athabasca Glacier

f/7.1.  Large -- Medium

On this day, we took another gondola ride up to the ski resort area above Lake Louise. Here's a giant 360-degree panorama from up there.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 09:57:47 -- 1/320 sec, f/8.0.  No Flash.5184x3456 Off. Large -- Medium

Cassie (L) and Tycho (R) play on the viewing platform.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 09:58:13 -- 1/200 sec, f/8.0.  No Flash.5184x3456 Off. Large -- Medium

Tycho.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 09:58:20 -- 1/400 sec, f/7.1.  No Flash.5184x3456 Off. Large -- Medium

Trying to get in another shot as quickly as I can before he gets the binky back in!
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 09:59:01 -- 1/200 sec, f/7.1.  Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Unknown. Large -- Medium

Me with Lake Louise in the background.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 09:59:37 -- 1/200 sec, f/7.1.  Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Unknown. Large -- Medium

Cassie smiles for the camera, but she's looking right in the Sun . . .
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 10:01:29 -- 1/200 sec, f/7.1.  Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Unknown. Large -- Medium

Great picture of Gwen, with Grandma and Grandpa leading Cassie away in the background.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 10:02:12 -- 1/250 sec, f/9.0.  No Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Off. Large -- Medium

Zoom picture of Lake Louise, across the valley, with giant hotel at the near end.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 10:03:33 -- 1/200 sec, f/7.1.  Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Unknown. Large -- Medium

Gwen and Jason with Lake Louise in the background, out of focus (forgot to set the F-stop high for this one).
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 10:37:49 -- 1/60 sec, f/4.0.  Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Unknown. Large -- Medium

Here's Cassie with the bear -- well, as close as she would get. She was too scared to get any closer to the rope than this, so I had to back up and use the zoom to make it look like she was closer to the bear. Those bears are scary if you're just 20 months old!
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 10:36:27 -- 1/60 sec, f/4.0.  Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Unknown. Large -- Medium

Unless, of course, you're Tycho, in which case you are unfazed. Here's Tycho in front of a Grizzly Bear in the museum at the top of the gondola.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 10:38:27 -- 1/60 sec, f/5.6.  Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Unknown. Large -- Medium

Cassie found this 2-dimensional bear less intimidating, and posed for pictures with it.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 10:38:36 -- 1/60 sec, f/5.0.  Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Unknown. Large -- Medium

Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 10:40:17 -- 1/60 sec, f/4.5.  Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Unknown. Large -- Medium

Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 10:42:12 -- 1/60 sec, f/4.0.  Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Unknown. Large -- Medium

Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 10:54:44 -- 1/200 sec, f/9.0.  No Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Off. Large -- Medium

A broader view down into the little burg of Lake Louise.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 10:55:03 -- 1/250 sec, f/9.0.  No Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Off. Large -- Medium

Looking northwest from the overlook, into Yoho National Park.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 16:11:12 -- 1/320 sec, f/11.0.  No Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Off. Large -- Medium

We took a guided trip out onto Athabasca Glacier from the Glacier View Inn at the south end of Jasper National Park. Here's the view from out on the glacier, looking up to the icefall (like a waterfall for glaciers).
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 16:11:35 -- 1/200 sec, f/9.0.  No Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Off. Large -- Medium

Tycho must be thinking -- but this is just like our front yard in December!
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 16:12:24 -- 1/200 sec, f/13.0.  Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Unknown. Large -- Medium

Self-shot of me and the upper end of the glacier.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 16:12:35 -- 1/250 sec, f/9.0.  No Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Off. Large -- Medium

Here's the safe area, the place that they've ascertained is free of crevasses. That's why it was worth it to go on this tour; no need to die from hypothermia with a broken body at the bottom of a crevasse.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 16:12:39 -- 1/200 sec, f/8.0.  No Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Off. Large -- Medium

This is the superbus -- 'snobus' -- that we rode in. Only goes 12 miles an hour, but can climb up an 18 degree incline on ice! Those tires are massive. See at right Tycho leading Gwen back to the bus.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 16:13:08 -- 1/200 sec, f/13.0.  Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Unknown. Large -- Medium

Here's Cassie out on the ice.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 16:13:36 -- 1/200 sec, f/13.0.  Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Unknown. Large -- Medium

Cassie waves to the camera with Grandma.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 16:13:40 -- 1/160 sec, f/13.0.  Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Unknown. Large -- Medium

Cassie in front of the upper glacier.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 16:13:49 -- 1/200 sec, f/13.0.  Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Unknown. Large -- Medium

Cassie with Grandma and Grandpa.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 16:14:21 -- 1/200 sec, f/13.0.  Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Unknown. Large -- Medium

Gwen, Tycho, Jason, and Cassie at the Athabasca Glacier.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 16:18:57 -- 1/160 sec, f/13.0.  Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Unknown. Large -- Medium

Tycho was a bit upset while we were out on the glacier. We eventually determined that it wasn't that he didn't like the glacier -- its that he couldn't stand being ripped away from the bus.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 16:19:18 -- 1/200 sec, f/13.0.  Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Unknown. Large -- Medium

The dude REALLY likes buses. I can't imagine from whence he got the genes to be so OCD . . . Gwen bought him a model of the bus at the gift shop and now it's become one of his most prized posessions. He now sleeps with his Doggie in one hand and his Bus in the other!
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 16:23:46 -- 1/125 sec, f/13.0.  No Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Off. Large -- Medium

HEre's a fast-running flow of glacial meltwater.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 16:24:10 -- 1/60 sec, f/13.0.  No Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Off. Large -- Medium

Our tour group out on the ice.
Canon EOS REBEL T2i, 2011:08:10 16:24:19 -- 1/160 sec, f/13.0.  No Flash, Compulsory.5184x3456 Off. Large -- Medium

Looking down the glacier.