#gap lake

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Forest (No. 314)

Gap Lake, AB

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Mount Lougheed Wind Tower edit por John Andersen Por Flickr: a sunset on the way home

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Gap Lake Aurora by James Anderson Via Flickr: Another image from the awesome aurora on May 28th, the Northern Lights were strong this night and filled the sky to the horizon. The streaking nights are from a train passing by, I wonder if the train engineers notice the Northern Lights as they journey through some of the darkest areas of the Rocky Mountains? Gap Lake, Alberta

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Canadian Pacific's Canadian is westbound on this July day in 1967 with 19 cars in tow past Gap Lake, Alberta. Of interest in the train is the mail box car on the head end added at Calgary for Vancouver. In the background is the Canada Cement plant at Exshaw where you can see the limestone mountain being carved away. Today, that mountain has a much larger scar on it to reflect over 40 years of continuous cement production.

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gap lake ~ Richard Mark

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Gap Lake, AB (No. 1)

Mount McGillivray is a 2,451-metre (8,041-foot) mountain summit located in the Bow Valley of Kananaskis Country in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada. Its nearest higher peak is Skogan Peak, 3.0 km (1.9 mi) to the southeast. Mount McGillivray is a landmark that can be seen from Highway 1, the Trans-Canada Highway in the Exshaw area.

Mount McGillivray is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.

Source: Wikipedia

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Gap Lake, AB (No. 2)

Mount McGillivray was named for Duncan McGillivray (1770–1808), one of the first white men along with David Thompson to see the Bow Valley. In November 1800, McGillivray and Thompson rode south on a trip from the newly established fort at Rocky Mountain House and explored west into the Bow Valley as far as what is now Mount McGillivray in search of the headwaters of the Columbia River. The mountain's toponym was officially adopted in 1957 by the Geographical Names Board of Canada.

During the Cold War, tunnels and vaults were constructed under the north slope of the mountain as part of a plan to safely store government documents, however the project was never completed.

On July 28, 2023, a small single-engine plane crashed on Mt. McGillivray, killing all six occupants from Calgary.

Source: Wikipedia

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Alpine Scenery

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