Lake O'Hara Sunrise

Nature's 'smoke' filter provides a sepia tinge to the morning sky on this summer sunrise along the lakeside pathway near Lake O'Hara Lodge. Historically, it was the dustbowl conditions of the 1930's which led to extensive forest fires along the Pacific Northwest, filling the Montana mountain air with smoke, that created the incentive for the Links (Dr George K K Link, and his spouse Adeline) to first visit Lake O'Hara (1928), to escape the smoke on their summer sojourn. Their presence would alter for the better, the landscape of this region. These days, periods of smoke in the Canadian Rockies summer air is an inevitable reality.