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On my quest to get all sorts of photos I would never see in Ontario, I took an evening hike up to Cecret (or Secret) Lake in the Albion Basin at Alta. An awesome spot, and the hike up is only 30 minutes and fairly easy to do.

I knew something was up when the parking lot was full at 6pm on a Tuesday night. Turns out there were a lot of people up there already, or on their way up. Not ideal for shooting landscape photos, but it was only 30 minutes, no big loss. I was sure as the sun started setting, people would be heading home.

On the way up, I heard rushing water coming from the side of the trail… gotta check it out. Snow in July, Utah is awesome for that.

Another 10 minutes from that spot and I’d made it to the top. Turns out there was a god damn frenzy of people up there. Little kids screaming at the top of their lungs, middle-aged women with bottles of wine, teenagers throwing rocks at the water… all the good stuff you need for landscape photos. So here I am standing on a small rock in the lake, when some kid asks me to move so he can catch salamanders. Hmm… ok, I’ll indulge this for a few minutes. I ask him to watch out for the camera. No such luck… child starts bumping into my lens and almost knocks the tripod and camera in to the lake. Wicked. Alright kid, I’m Kenny Powers, and you’re fuckin’ out!

Thanks for getting outta the way, back to making some bangers.

People finally left, so I hiked up higher to catch the sunset as it was going down over the mountains.

And time for the road home with a bit of sun left in the sky.

Finally, I passed a bull moose and a family of 3 deer on the way home, but the light was gone. I guess I’ll have to visit them another day.

Here are 3 more photos left over from the trip up the canyon along the Little Cottonwood Trail. There’s definitely not much snow left in the mountains, so I’ll be heading to higher elevations real soon.

Just booked 3 days and 2 nights in Moab for the end of the month. Expect plenty of photos from that trip. Moab is just full of photo ops.

Nikon D2X – Tokina 12-24mm

Took the day and drove up Little Cottonwood Canyon. Wasn’t sure what I’d get, but found a trail that took me to the base of this waterfall… so I just kept following it up the mountain until I couldn’t go much farther without climbing gear. Still a bit of snow left in those mountains but it’s leaving in a hurry.