Monday 23 July 2012

West Wind Pass -- Again?

This is really a delayed post. We were up West Wind Pass with Amy & Michael last Wednesday, making it twice up there in just over a week. It's still a glorious place, though it was living up to it's windy name.
Wandering the meadows 
The usual view down Spray Lakes
To add spice to the mix, we stopped at the top of Whiteman's Gap, fought our way through the crowds of sheep...
Traffic jam
...and wandered down the gap to the Grassi Lakes.
Down through the gap. Canmore in the distance
Ha Ling rises above the lakes
Surprisingly busy with climbers on the walls including some that we could see on EEOR (East End of Rundle, a local multi-pitch climbing face).


I like the Grassi Lakes, because they are a surprisingly pretty place to find so close to Canmore. Amy & Michael liked them, too, but as usual, they bounded up and down both West Wind Pass and the Grassi Lakes trail without puffing and panting or even breaking a sweat like us old dudes.

3 comments:

Bogota Billy said...

This sort of thing makes Bogota Billy homesick, you know. Especially the meadow picture above treeline. Where, specifically, is West Wind Pass, e.g. how does one get there?

Bogota Billy said...

This sort of thing makes Bogota Billy homesick, you know. Especially the meadow picture above treeline. Where, specifically, is West Wind Pass, e.g. how does one get there?

RyderDA said...

Trailhead is just north of Spurling Creek, about 15 km south of Canmore on Hwy 742. The trail leads up to a pass between the Windtower (the 4th peak of Mt. Lougheed) and Rimwall. The pass and end of the trail can be seen by entering the following lat/long coordinates into Google Maps/Google Earth:

50.9899, -115.30245

The trailhead is:

50.9765, -115.32108

Switch photos on while poking around, and you'll see a number by me that are in Panoramio.