Takakkaw Falls, etc.

Perhaps Don's favorite trip was up into the valley that contained Takakkaw Falls, the tallest falls in the Canadian Rockies.  It has to be visited to be able to appreciate the force, the noise, the spectacle.
The road up to it is one of the great drives.  Here is the trip.

The road is worth the trip in itself. 

On the way you pass the "Meeting of the Waters" site.  The trail down to this view is

not marked, and so there were few visitors.  This is a place where fresh water (cascades on the right) meets

the milky glacier-fed water(from the left) to provide two distinctly different colored waters.

At the very beginning of the road up there is the "Natural Bridge" site

where the entire river is funneled through a narrow gap about 5 feet wide.  The gap

is the slot in the right of the picture.

And here is the opening, the "Natural Bridge"

The sound was extremely powerful.

Here is the first glimpse of Takakkaw Falls from the road up.

Don entertaining a stranger, and the bridge were I took Ken's picture

23 years ago!

I don't remember seeing the whole falls before, so it is quite possible

Scott, Ken and I didn't go this far up the trail.  You got soaking wet this close.

This is the view going up the valley north.  Don struck off on his own, and got a

magnificent shot of the valley in the other direction.

Looking down valley, and down stream from the falls.

We saw the best examples of Indian Paint Brush on this road.

Again, the road itself was worth the drive.  Jaw-dropping.

And more.....

The fact that we had such a beautiful clear day just emphasized

the beginning and end of our trip which was so filled with forest fire smoke,

making vistas such as these impossible.  But we had some glorious days!