Took a six hour hike around the lightening lakes chain in Manning Park on saturday. Unfortunately the trail to the last lake was washed out in a rock scree slide so I didn't make it there, but it was still about 24 km walk. Needless to say I was a bit tired to sort through and post the photos yesterday. Lots of wildlife, and more of an Alpine setting than coastal forest so that was neat. I guess the snow is in full melt, all the streams along the paths were full on torrents and seemed to run wherever they felt as opposed to staying within an obvious bed. Columbian Ground squirrels had colonies in anything resembling a grassy meadow, which included the picnic sites at the lake and green spaces in front of the resort. Some were really tame, but they all had to stand up and stare at the dog. There was also Common Loon, Barrow's Goldeneye, Spruce grouse, though we only heard the Varied Thrushes, Swainson's Thrushes and other random small birds I don't know the calls for. Only one Bald Eagle, but lots of Ravens. Here are some of my better pictures, more can be seen in the same album on my Picasa photo site.
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