BANFF NATIONAL PARK, ALBERTA, CANADA - 1

@Jason Kravitz: Thanks for visiting Jason. Yes! It is breathtaking scenery and it would have been more breathtaking if I had magnified a bit more when I removed the dust spots from my scanned photos - wasn't as obvious that there were any left in Photoshop! Have lots more pre-posted of the Rockies so will have to re-spot remove and then upload them again :-)

@amy: Thanks Amy! Pesky spots indeed grrrrr! I have taken dust spots off till my eyes were crossing - in fact I think some must be minute scratches on the photos. I have tried to replace this photo after getting rid of the spots which were much more obvious on the blog - strange!! However, it will only let you change the photo for a future post. You can re-upload on the current one, but it doesn't overwrite the first post. Still the same as I started off with. Billy's PhotoNet program. spot removes with the clone tool easier than photoshop - no need to size the clone brush. I didn't magnify the photos enough - thought I'd get away with it because they are smaller than needed for print. ;-) PS. Lots more pre-posted so I am going to have to spot remove a few of them and re-upload them before their current date.

@bronzebilly u.k.: You know! I think Hilary's remarks were referring to Everest which is a lot different proposition to climbing Snowdon, or indeed some of our lower coastal mountains! In fact, I agree about Snowdon, it is a beautiful mountain - saw some photos of different views of it when I was looking up the elevation! There are other 'green' mountains in BC's Okanagon Valley here, and the trees grow all the way up to the top. It reminds me of England (and Wales) quite a lot with its gentler mountains and lakes - very lovely terrain. The thing is when you first see the Rockies, one is in absolute awe of the size way above the tree line, and the high sheer rock and the sheer numbers of them from east to west and north to south - a distance of about 300 -400 miles wide from Alberta into British Columbia. The highest mountain in the Rockies is about 21,000 ft - but I don't have a photo! We have to leave those mountains to the "Hilary Descendants" to climb. Tell you the truth - last time I went back to England I had a hard time hiking up Otley Chevin in Yorkshire which is just short of being a mountain - 996 or so feet! I'm much too long in the tooth now to tackle any of them unless they have mountain roads you can drive up. Anyway, enjoyed your comments - always good for a laugh, but you are a badbillyboy!

Bye for now!
Anne