Heart mountain Hike (9 pics 56k warning)

[bantor]

Good day all,

On saturday me and a friend of mine went out for a small hike. We started out thinking it would be about 1-2 hours long. The thing is once we got to the end of the hiking trail, only like 20 min had pasted. So being the person i am, i decided to make my own trail. We started off in a random direction and just kept going. It was Awsome. There was some great shots to be taken, and so i did. We ended up hiking for about 6 hours, and litterally making our own trail through dense mountain forest, cliffs, and many other mountain obsticals, it was absolutly great. I won't go on with the lengthy tail now, but here are a few shots.

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There are great stories to go along with most of the shots, but i won't bore you with that.

Comments and Critique always welcome.

 

[ClarkKent]

Good shots here. Were these taken in the middle of the day?

 

[bantor]

They were indeed, between 11:00am and about 4:00pm, i really wanted to get out there early, or stay late to get the nice long shadows cast by sunrise/ sunset, but unfortunatly it just never worked out that way.

 

[Raindrops]

Wow! What scenery. I love the last one.

 

[JTHphoto]

beautiful scenery, thanks for sharing! really love the compostion in that last photo... man, looks like you were really high... :thumbup:

 

[bantor]

Thanks all!

Indeed i was JTH. it was a long way down if i were to fall. In the last picture, if you walkdown that little frozen stream a bit, it is a verical drop off of about 400 feet. We didnt climb it, but i would love to in the summer.

 

[Raymond J Barlow]

#9 rocks, cool shooting!

 

[bantor]

Thanks Raymond.

 

[crawdaddio]

5, 6, and 9 stand out. Excellent!

 

[Peanuts]

#2 looks amazing with the tree framing it, the moon, as well as the deep blue sky.
The mountains don't have a great deal of snow this winter eh?

 

[bantor]

Thanks,

No there was suprisingly little snow. In fact at the deepest point it was only about 3 to 4 feet deep. And as for temp, well it was beautifull, about 5 degrees Celcius.

 

[Alexandra]

aaaaah, beautiful canada!
I love 6 and 8, but they're all awesome

 

[bantor]

I couldn't agree more, I love the diversity. not to say other places don't have diversity as well, i just really enjoy ours.

 

[Insomniac]

Wow, sounds like a nice hike, and beautiful scenery. The last one is my favorite.