We got up in the morning, on Tuesday, Remembrance Day. There were four of us remaining on the Fall Photo Weekend trip as the others had headed home yesterday. It was very cold overnight, with the temperature dropping down to around -25C under clear skies. When we got up in the morning we packed up all of our gear and checked out of the hotel.
We decided to head up the Pyramid Lake Road one more time. Our first stop was at Patricia Lake. The clear morning light was looking pretty good on Pyramid Mountain, though it was a little flatter than the evening sidelight from our last stop here. But this time ice was beginning to form on the edges of the lake, and there was a mist rising off the open water. It looked a lot warmer than it really was... with the temperature hovering around -19C while we attempted to work with our cameras.
After this stop we continued on up the road to Pyramid Lake. Here conditions were much the same, but there must have been a breeze overnight as there were ice formations all over the shore, and a hoar frost in the trees where the mist coming off the lake had settled into the forest. We shot here for quite a while before eventually heading back down into the valley.
We made a brief stop along the Athabasca River near Old Fort Point before eventually hitting the road for home. We stopped briefly to check out a small herd of Bighorn Sheep, and made one stop to photograph the Athabasca Valley in mid day light.
We left the park a little after noon and continued on to Marlboro. Like the other half of our group had done the day prior, we made a brief stop here to explore the old abandoned cement plant. After this last stop we just headed for home, and arrived back in Edmonton by early evening.
For a more detailed run down of the weekend events please check back to my previous blog posting from a few days ago. I have attached a number of digital snapshots taken on this last day of our outing...
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