Year: 2017

Haunt Manor opens tonight at Campark Resorts.  I walked around and took a few photos(more to come in the next few days.)  Some of the props are more than a little intense - and this is in the daytime!  I'm pretty sure that I wasn't alone in the some of the buildings that I was checking out.  There were noises.  And certainly someone or something was watching me...

I was planning on walking about and taking a few photos later at dusk - I'm much less sure that I will do this now...

Tom and I grew up together.  Our mums were pregnant at the same time.  We were born a few days apart.  They lived directly across the street.  We hadn't seen each other since about 1972 and hooked up about 7 years ago - seeing each other once a year up until a couple of years ago. He finally came out to visit with his girlfriend.  She was visiting and really wanted to see the mountains.  We hiked Grotto Canyon and I took them up to Spray Lakes where Tom went in for swim.

Trailhead for this hike is about a kilometre from the entrance to the Upper Kananaskis Lake trail.  South end of the lake.  Park in that last parking lot.  You will cross one bridge - then you will come to a fork - take the left one up the mountain.  There is a sign pointing the way.  From there to Rawson Lake it says 2.7 km.  Once you get to the lake is about another kilometre to the other side. Spectacular views from there.  About half the trail from Upper Kananaskis to Rawson is steady climb and the top half is almost flat.  At least a very easy slope.

If you are energetic, at the back end of the lake you can climb up the trail to the peak.  I went about half way but didn't have enough water with me and was trying to tackle a rock face climb with I was not set up for.  There is a trail to the right of that (about half way up) that is a better bet.  Several people told me that the hike up to the top was about an hour.   I was at that half way point in about 20-25 minutes so that sounds about right.  Was very hot and dusty when I went - middle of the day.  Would be better on a cooler day or earlier or later in the day.

Here are a few pics from the day: