Hiking the Rockies with Beautiful Larch Colors - My Favorite Tree 📷

Although I never like fall because it only means winter is that much closer, I do love the colors and especially the awesome Larch trees in the Canadian Rockies in the fall. There is usually only about 2 weeks of great colors, and these last two weeks were it, I was fortunate to get about 65km of hiking through these awesome areas and of course, got some beautiful photos on route.

These were all just starting to turn up by Rockbound lake yet they sure made an awesome contrast with the towering black rock walls up behind.

A few scattered larch below the upper headwall hadn't seen as much cooler temperatures yet, so they were still pretty green, like this one.

Up above the headwall at the upper lake however, they had mostly turned yellow and some truly towering larch up there.

It had snowed overnight but warming up fast, so most of it had melted.

Awesome skies in the morning before the clouds rolled in later in the afternoon.

Cool Larch Facts...

Some of these huge Larix Lyalli species, or Alpine Larches are as big as this species gets, up to 25m tall. What's really cool about them is they can be incredably old. The oldest tree in Canada is a Larix Lyalli in Kananaskis and has been dated as 1943 years old! WOW! They just look ancient compared to all the other trees around them.

So, had some great photos of these old beast and I thoroughly enjoyed their ancient company.

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