Taken in May 2016 with the D200 and stitched with ArcSoft panorama maker pro just recently. The small size doesn't really do it justice, I have it as a new desktop photo on my widescreen monitor and even there is not quite good enough. I was really impressed how it came out - I guess cloudy weather actually works really quite well for even lighting. Anyways - this was shot from the monument pictured below looking down the hill side. Cheslatta lake became the new route for water flowing from the Nechako reservoir that was created by Alcan's Kenny Dam in the 1950's. They decided against putting a spillway in the rock-fill dam itself, and so instead the water flows out through the Skins Spillway on Ootsa lake into Skins lake, then Cheslatta lake, Murray lake, and out over Cheslatta falls into the old Grand Canyon of the Nechako to supply water to the Nechako river that flows through Vanderhoof. There is a portion of the old canyon upstream from Cheslatta falls that is now dry. All this water supplies the energy required to produce power at RioTinto Alcan's smelter in Kitimat and for much of BC. In the process of creating this elaborate system, the government and Alcan at the time were required to move people out of the to-be-flooded areas - including farmers and First Nations people. The monument pictured below is intended to commemorate the previous home of some of the Cheslatta people and where their dead remain buried. An interesting lake to visit for sure, though the large spans of dead zones along the shore line from changing water levels (associated with being part of the reservoir) made it feel a bit odd.
The monument to the Cheslatta people, and another shot of it with a view of the boat on the shore below.
A broken headstone with dates and (what I assume is) a different script for writing First Nations mostly oral language.
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