Junction Lake Scenic Panoramas - Wilderness Hiking 📷

In my last post here, I had the photos of the many creek washes and waterfalls along the trail to the quite distant Junction Lake. Its a 28km (17mi) round trip hike to this lake and with the flood taking out 60% of the trail, it certainly wasn't easy. However, as @themagus said in comment recently to me, sometimes meandering off trail is the best way to go hiking. I certainly agree and enjoyed some beautiful scenery as a result. I hope you agree!

So, here was the destination as I finally reached the lakes after a very long hike that seemed to go on endlessly. Luckily the scenery just kept getting better the further along.

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Couldn't have asked for better timing, as I arrived at the final lake, the sky opened up and some beautiful blues showed above the route I had hiking along to get here. My route and non-existent trail was right from the center of the photo all along the valley.

While my last post was all the waterfalls on this same hike, I just saw that I missed a couple of waterfalls photos, so here they are. This first one I really liked, it was high in the alpine meadows just below the lake's headwall.

All around these upper alpine meadows were some awesome rolling hills and rocks in the surrounding towering peaks.

See Part 1 - Mountain Waterfall Hiking along Creek Washout

Past Mountain and Panorama Photo Sets

I hope you enjoyed these photographs. If you are new, please follow and check out some of my other recent mountain photography sets:

• Rocky Mountain Vistas - Beautiful Skylines
• Skogan Pass - Canadian Rockies
• Mountain Scenery Panoramas - Canadian Rockies
• Exploring the Wilderness on a Mountain Unicycle
• Awesome Sunrise and Sunsets with Horses
• Hiking Kananaskis - Hunchback Hill - Mountain Grouse
• Panorama Photography of Mountain Unicycling .... Crazy!!!
• Alpine Forests at first Snow - End of Autumn in the Canadian Rockies