Plain of Six Glaciers above Lake Louise
Watercolour, crayon and computer
©2024 Charlene Brown
In the late 1950s when I was in high school, it was our custom to hike
to the Plain of Six Glaciers after work on the August long weekend – a distance
of about 5 km with an elevation gain of about 500 m. After camping overnight on
the Plain of Six Glaciers, we would continue up a much steeper, more rugged
trail along the crest of a moraine to a ‘corn snow’ slope at the north end of
Victoria Glacier. Carrying our ski equipment!
Most of us had only enough stamina for one or two careful runs down the slope, stopping well short of the precipitous drop-off for which Mt. Victoria is famous. The (barely) skiable part of the glacier is on the right edge of the painting above.
To my amazement, I recently discovered that the trail can be found on Google Street View – I can’t believe somebody got a Google camera up there!
Have a look at this link or this one Swivel the camera at each location and you’ll see a few of the many shots I used to produce the telescoped and manipulated composition above.
