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Cranberry Marsh, Valemount BC (lemmy.world)
 

Cranberry Marsh trail in Valemount BC is an easy loop around the wetland with two lookout towers for better viewing opportunities. Most notable for its seasonal waterfowl, May 1st was still too early and also left part of the trail submerged. Dust throughout the valley made the surrounding mountains look lake mirages when the wind kicked up. Extra photos are views of the surrounding mountain ranges and pissibly a boardwalk with the marshes before they got going in the forefront, as well as an American coot scooting past and a Canadian Goose with its head down.

At this point I was maybe an hour west of Jasper, but I went west for a bit. Good recreation sites to the west that offer free camping. I’m sticking to hikes for the daily posts, but I’ll maybe post some of the other stuff on a different community at some point.

Helmcken Falls in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, i’m still learning darktable so some of these images may still come out looking a bit odd on the post processing. I’m likely to go back through each of the ones i already uploaded to flickr and reupload better processed ones now that I’m getting a better handle on the software, because there are some that I feel already look much better after a second pass.

As for the over-exposure on these, yeah I got a newer lens over the winter and when I got there I realized I never got any ND filters for it so I was just dealing with the sun. I tried playing with the images but found that I could never find anything that made me happy, and I didn’t think the original image was good enough to dig too deep into it if I’m being honest. The waterfall itself is doing all the heavy lifting on that one haha.

Long story short, the processing should improve over time but I thank you very much for the advice.

Helmcken Falls in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks! Those are some good photos as well! Yeah, I considered doing green mtn lookout as I was passing through, but ended up not doing it. Think I was more interested in getting a shower in clearwater at that point or something haha, maybe next time. Pretty sure that road to Trophy mtn was still closed at the time but it also sounded like a good one.

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Helmcken Falls (lemmy.world)
 

Helmcken Falls, the tallest (463 ft) waterfall at Wells Gray park. The main viewpoint requires no hiking, while the route behind is an easy 5 mi round trip that starts at a nearby parking area. Known for its large snow cone, by 4/25 there was only enough left to block my view from behind. Kinda had bad timing for this overall, both too soon and too late and then I hit it with the sun both blazing and shadowed in the canyon.

Extra photos include a view of the snowpack behind obscuring the falls but maintaining the view out over the valley, a shot just upstream of the falls with a rainbow in the mist (would’ve been cool over the falls, not bitter at all haha) and a little tighter shot of the falls.

That’s the end of my time at Wells Gray, Spahats was under renovation still and the rest of the park was still closed for winter.

Dawson Falls, Wells Gray Provincial Park, BC in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I’m hoping I can pull that off in two years, definitely on the list. This is my first trip to Canada and absolutely love it so far.

Dawson Falls, Wells Gray Provincial Park, BC in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thanks! Glad you like them. I’ll be posting one trail a day like this for the foreseeable future. May miss a day or two if I don’t reach cell service but outside of that I should be good. I’ve got two months of canada hikes with one more month up here, plus 1,000 miles worth of trails from last year that I still need to deal with, so I should be able to keep it going for a while.. The plan is to get trail write-ups for everything I do put up on a blog I’m trying to get going, but learning wordpress while spending the majority of your time in the woods is difficult haha. It’s gotten to the point that I need to just start putting some this out there though, and hope that spurs me forward on the rest.

HQ versions of all of these are up on flickr.com/everydayhiker/ as well, with more photos for every trail.

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Dawson Falls, Wells Gray Provincial Park, BC (lemmy.world)
 

Dawson Falls, next of the three large waterfalls that were accessible when I passed through wells gray park in mid-April. The hike is all reward, low effort as you walk the short distance from the downstream viewpoint to beside its base. Highwater may put falls in upper viewpoint. Additional photos show two side views, one looking over the lip and the other looking alongside it from the upper viewpoint, and a third photo that is instead a vertical shot of the falls from downstream.

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Moul falls, wells gray provincial park (lemmy.world)
 

Moul Falls. Easy hike at the beginning of #WellsGray park. Drops 115 ft straight down, while you’ll have to take the stairs. You can hike behind the waterfall as well, but it was still landslidey when I was there. Hiked 4/3/25. Canon r8 w 24-50mm. Additional pictures show the stairways, a view from the top with some stairs in view on the left and the creek flowing out from the falls on the right, and an unnamed waterfall you’ll pass on the trail.

Metadata in posts in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Thanks, appreciated. I figured something like that was what was needed, but unsure where. Have a good one!

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Metadata in posts (lemmy.world)
 

Is there any way we could get functionality for alt text to automatically generate if its included in the metadata description? Hopefully this is an acceptable forum to ask.

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Serpent's Back trail, Hope BC (lemmy.world)
 

This short but steep trail twists and turns as you climb the many stairs to reach the top. Included photos show two more views of all the ups and downs through the forests, and one cluster of trilliums in pink and white. Hiked April 16 2025.

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Northern lights from June 1, 2025 just south of Golden BC (lemmy.world)
 

Some photos of the northern lights as seen the other day. They were really going strong for a while there around 1am MT. Brief description for photos in body: Wide angle views of the borthern lights, the beams were strongly visible in the purple areas and when it was really going would flare up in the yellow. The yellow lower sections were boiling at times as they waved around. If the alt text doesn’t come through I have ‘do a barrel roll’ for one of the loops of the underside.

All photos taken on a canon r8, using either a rokinon 14mm or a canon 24-50mm.