#bowness park… more of banff city… two jack lake… hell even more photos of downtown calgary. which i may even have more of soon…

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yk. after talking so negatively about alberta as of recent i want to share some photos i’ve taken around here because at the end of the day, alberta is not only a beautiful province, it’s also my home. so!

these are from around banff and lake louise:

these directly from lake louise, of obviously of the lake, but also pictures i’ve taken in and around the area on some nearby hikes!

these are from johnston’s canyon, one one of the most famous hikes in the area. the second two are near the lower falls, but i’ve been to the upper falls once and it’s just as beautiful. the wiggly tree is just something fun about the hike! it’s been there since my mom was a kid, and even before that…

and this is a photo i took while riding probably the most popular gondola that has the banff springs hotel near the bottom!

now for a couple from canmore:

i really only have a couple photos from canmore because i don’t go there super often, but these are a few i really like! the third one is my favourite, that bridge is super cool tbh

moving onto jasper:

jasper was hit fairly recently with a lot of really awful wildfires, and since then i haven’t actually visited… but, the last time i did go, it was absolutely beautiful. the first two are photos of a hike you take a gondola to get up to, unfortunately i couldn’t finish them due to elevation sickness, but even from where i was the view was incredible. the last photo is of spirit island, which if i remember correctly, is an important place to the stoney nakoda first nation, because of their belief of mountains representing their ancestors (i really hope i got this right)

these are from abraham lake, and probably some of my dad’s favourite photos from a trip here!

these are methane bubbles frozen in ice on the lake, which is the main attraction of going in winter! it’s freezing cold, but absolutely worth it (trust me, seeing these in real life is really awesome)

these are a little closer to my home, there’s a small hike around the elbow river my family does just about every summer!

the first is the actual hike, and the second is an inukshuk i remember seeing someone make on the hike a couple years ago! (bonus story uh one time on this hike i. may or may not have stepped in a stream of water and had to finish the rest of the hike with a wet shoe 😔)

and then for some more “city/industry focused” photos, here are a few i have of both edmonton and fort mackay!

these are some places in edmonton:

(the art gallery of alberta, and a building near the university of alberta that is literally referred to as the butterdome)

and some photos from fort mackay!

a lot of these deal with the oil sands since, yk, it’s one of the places where all the hardcore oil drilling and stuff happens. the third photo, if i remember correctly, is actually a site where they’re working to clean up all the literal toxic sludge lol. i actually think my parents worked on it! and obviously i had to include some buffalo my family saw :)

and i don’t have a lot of photos from fort mcmurry unfortunately, so i’ll ask my parents to send me some, and i’ll edit the post to add them later!

and finally, it wouldn’t be a scott alberta appreciation post if i didn’t include my home city calgary :)

inside the university of calgary, a photo of peace bridge,

a photo of eau claire mall before it was demolished, a photo of bowmont park (if i remember correctly, a photo of the reservoir i actually think looks really cool with COP in the background (a place for skiing)),

and lastly for now, the northern lights just outside my home :)

there’s so much i didn’t include here: photos from kananaskis, downtown edmonton, the saddledome and the bow building in calgary, and so much of both red deer and fort mcmurray, which have all been a part of my life growing up in alberta. as much as i have complained about it here recently, it is my home, and at the end of the day, it’s a home that i love.