Sunday, March 25, 2012

Mountains

It would be safe to say that we are surrounded by mountains.  Every direction you look  all you can see our mountains, and the beauty is astounding!

Monday was a fabulous day and a great way to March break.  Since it was so nice out the kids and I went for a bike ride to Alaska.  All the mountain photographs below were taken from the Hyder Alaska dock.   

Mountains look back past town along the river.


The eastern side of the Portland Canal.




The west side of the canal looking back towards town.  You can see a white line of snow in approximately the middle of the mountain, which is Canada/USA border.


 Mountains looking past the town of Hyder.







 

The view looking out along the Portland Canal.



Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Happy First Day of Spring!

I was cleaning old files off of my computer when I came across this picture and thought it would be a great one to post in honour of the first day of spring.

Enjoy!

Monday, March 19, 2012

12 of 12 for 2012 March

My goodness, I cannot believe it has been a month since I last update my blog.  Where does the time go???

I know I am late posting my 12 pictures taken on the 12th of March, but I promise all these pictures were taken on the 12.  It was just that we were out of town and I was not able to post at the time.  Since we had to head out of town, I decided to take some pictures of the 60 km drive from town here to the highway that connects us to the rest of the province.



 Going left to right in rows top to bottom.
1. Snow covered mountain peak.  You can see a glacier to the right of the frame.
2.  Another peak.  It looks like a billboard up there, but this was taken with my lens at 285mm, so really it is barely larger than a spot from the ground.  We think it marks a landing pad for the helicopters to drop of the heli-skiers to ski down the other side of the  mountain.
3.  The controlled avalanche from a few days prior which the road crews were still working at clearing from the road. 
4. Just another of the many mountains along the way.
5.  Out bridge that washed out in the September from the heavy rains.  There is a temporary bridge in place right beside it, and the crews will start work on a new permanent bridge soon.
6.  A glimpse of Lake Meziadin  through the trees.  It was so pretty with all the fog rising off the lake.
7.  More mountains
8.  Just to show you how you can see the mountains along the road.
9.  A glacier between peeks.  I love how the ice is a bluish colour.
10.  Driving into the sun.
11.  Another beautiful snow covered peak.
12.  More mountains.

See it really is a very pretty drive.