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Canadian Rockies Guidebooks

See Rocky Mountain Books http://www.rmbooks.com/ Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies By Alan Kane http://www.rmbooks.com/book_details.php?isbn_upc=9780921102670 More Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies By Andrew W. Nugara Release Date: 01/05/2007 http://www.rmbooks.com/book_details.php?isbn_upc=9781894765862 The 11,000ers of the Canadian Rockies Updated Edition By Bill Corbett Release Date: 15/01/2009 http://www.rmbooks.com/book_details.php?isbn_upc=9781897522400 Selected Alpine Climbs in the Canadian Rockies By Sean Dougherty Release Date: 01/05/1997 Dated but still usefull http://www.rmbooks.com/book_details.php?isbn_upc=9780921102144

Gap Mountain Aug 21/09

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Hiked up to base of Gap with a buddy.  Explored on the rock but too loose and exposed for a hiker.

Tried out a new camera - Olympus 565UZ.  My friends with DSLR’s will howl but I have owned top quality SLRs and I am not a good photographer so the extra capability is wasted on me. 

The ease of use and advantages of a small lightweight(13 oz.) ultra zoom(20X) offset the disadvantages for me.  The ultrazooms do have slightly poorer image quality, are slower and don’t do as well in low light conditions but  I was able to pick up the 565 at a discontinued price of $320 CDN so it is a cheap experiment compared to a DSLR.

Pictures are here - check out the tele shot of a weather station and the butterfly shot.

Gap Mountain

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