Rocky Mountain Ramblers Association

This was the most snow that I have ever encountered on this spring hike to Bow Valley Provincial Park. Even the paved bike trail was mostly snow covered.

However, the snow was soft enough to permit most of the group to make it to the lunch spot before donning traction devices.

Along the way, we saw a half dozen or so trumpeter swans , along with some cygnets (visible in the photo if you look carefully).

We enjoyed a leisurely lunch in the bright sunshine at the picnic spot along the river, before putting on traction devices for the remainder of the hike though the woods.

Many Springs lake was, of course unfrozen, but we were unable to detect the bubbles made when the water in the spring surfaces. There was surprise at Middle Lake in that that there wasn’t much water at all to be seen at all.