2020 has been anything but ordinary year.   COVID-19 Pandemic brought many restrictions and the "new normal".  Among all this,  summer has been the clearest I can remember in Canadian Rocky Mountains.  No wildfires that plagued last several years, far less tourists and mostly sunny skies -- ideal hiking conditions, for us that are lucky enough to be living here.  It is only August but I already made several outstanding trips to remote parts of Banff National Park very few people ever get to see.  Clear air also means superb landscape photography conditions.  Photo above was taken hiking by Brazeau river on Cataract Pass Trail near Banff/Jasper National Park boundary while bottom photo is my bivi tent in Wild Goat Wilderness - unregulated camp site far away from anything that resembles civilization.   I update my hiking exploits regularly -- for Canadian Rockies check this page.