31646 Pam Hiking Garibaldi - 1986 - a photo on Flickriver

31646 Pam Hiking Garibaldi - 1986

            I have a soft spot for Garibaldi Park, near Whistler, BC. In 1974 my friend Kristina described its alpine wonders, loaned me her tent and sleeping bag, and sent me off on my first solo backpack trip. She died three weeks later, at age 26, never knowing what she had set in motion: a lifelong passion for wilderness travel - with camera, of course. 

I creaked up the switchback trail in new boots and a truly primitive Trapper Nelson packboard, camped the subalpine meadows, and fell in love with the mountains. Geologically the area is a fascinating lesson in the dual action of volcanoes and glaciers. Mount Garibaldi is a presumably extinct volcano; the basalt spike of Black Tusk is the core plug of another volcano, the sides of which have eroded away. There is a volcanic cliff where a lava flow came to a stop against a glacier (now long gone), thus damming an outflow creek and creating the beautiful Garibaldi Lake. And so on. 

I made this shot in 1986 on a day hike to Black Tusk with Pam Woodland. We're on its lower slopes, with a view of the distant Tantalus Range, its peaks almost surreal as they rise from a broad swath of valley cloud. 

Photographed in Garibaldi Provincial Park, BC (Canada); scanned from the original Kodachrome 64 slide. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©1986 James R. Page - all rights reserved.

Taken in: Canada / British Columbia / Garibaldi (show map)

Taken on: September 1, 1986

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