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The trailhead. On our way back we met our first (and only) black bear
while not being in some vehicle here. It ran away as soon as we started to
make lots of noise by singing 4 different songs at the same time :)
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The first lake encountered is Kinney Lake. The color of the lakes
results from the silt that is scraped of the mountains by the glaciers and
gets into the lake when they melt.
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A panoramic picture of Kinney Lake. Because of the automatic exposure of
my digicam, there are some strange changes in brightness in the picture, but
it's still nice :)
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Heike in the lake ("Let's go swimming... This is fucking cold!")
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Valley of a Thousand Falls
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The suspension bridge at our first campground: Whitehorn
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We left our tents at Whitehorn and took only some food and rainwear,
passing by White Falls...
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... Falls of the Pool ...
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and Emperor Falls. All the same river.
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Up there we had to cross some rocky terrain...
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...and pass by Mist Glacier (note the size of Heike far back)...
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...in order to get to Berg Glacier...
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and its lake! It is called Berg Lake because of the icebergs that calve
off the glacier into the lake once in a while.
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Berg Lake lies at the "back" (relative to where we started) of Mt.
Robson, which is the highest mountain of the Canadian Rockies with almost
4000 m. And if you wonder what's wrong with the water: that is ice (in June).
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A marmot, you see lots of them.
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On the way back we found out that you can get very close to Emperor
Falls.
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Jenny in the spray of the falls.
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