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Coming around the end of Upper Kananaskis Lake near the Point campground with an outlier of Lyautey looming above.The Kananaskis River winds its way to the lake.Wow! That's an angry Kananaskis River!Summer is quickly approaching.Could this trail lead to Hidden Lake?Gorgeous Hidden Lake. And it's low water - a bonus.Steven and Ben hike along the shore of Hidden Lake.Hundreds of flowers along the shore.Hidden Lake scenery.Hidden Lake scenery.Hidden Lake scenery.Looking back at Hidden Lake from part way up the scree slopes beyond.A steep grunt to the headwall, note the snow patch above their heads.Fossil Falls along Foch Creek which is obviously raging today.Kananaskis Lake comes into view over Hidden Lake.The terrain gets quite exposed at the headwall.A slip here would be very hard to self-arrest and the slope got slowly more and more exposed down to our right.Another view back over Hidden Lake towards the Upper Kananaskis Lake.Another, smaller slope on the way up the headwall. Note the rainbow from the creek at lower right.Crossing a draw between the ridges to Aster Lake.
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