Location Taken: Banff, Alberta
Time Taken: June 2010
Sometimes it’s fun just looking at something and trying to imagine how it came to look like it does.
Like the mountain in the photo. Why the two peaks?
Maybe it’s just two mountains. Could be an optical illusion that makes it look like two peaks on the same landform.
Or maybe, when the plates shoved together and stacked up the various rock strata like cardboard folding together, these were two different layers of rock, right next to each other, and they ended up close together but not exactly the same. Kind of like books falling over, two corners sticking in the air.
Maybe a glacier carved out the notch between them. Never underestimate the power of ice.
Or maybe, just maybe, a giant wandered over and took a bite out of the top of the mountain. Giants find rock delicious, don’t you know? Don’t see them anywhere near often because they tend to take long naps after each meal, and people keep confusing them for the mountains they eat.
