Weeping Wall

Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

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The Weeping Wall apparently pertained to a particular cliff wall where supposedly many waterfalls could be coming down at once under the right conditions. Well, as you can see from the photo above, we didn’t get to see this phenomenon though we did spot a couple of noticeable strands of falling water though there might have been a few other harder-to-see ones that didn’t translate well into this photograph.

I guess the right conditions for this wall to weep impressively involved us either being here when the snow would rapidly melt (i.e. possibly late June or July depending on the snow pack and how warm the weather would be) or in the midst of a downpour where hopefully the clouds wouldn’t be blocking the views. We were here in September 2010, and we paid attention to the waterfalls during a day when a snow storm was clearing.

So given this ephemeral characteristic, I’d argue this would marginally count as a major waterfall. Nonetheless, they did devote a pullout and signpost pointing out this wall so we gave it a little special treatment as a result.

    Tagged with: banff, national park, alberta, canada, waterfall, icefields, canadian rockies, columbia, panther creek, roadside, cirrus mountain



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