Elbow Falls - Post Flood 2013

We took a Sunday afternoon drive out to Elbow Falls in Kananaskis Country a week or so ago. It was shocking to see the damage done by the floods in June.  Sometimes I forget that it wasn't just homes and cities and towns that were affected.

There used to be a large picnic area with trees and picnic tables.  It's gone!  We walked from the parking area along the asphalt path, and it just ended.  At an 8 foot embankment that wasn't there before.  The river's course has been changed.  

The tables that used to be in the picnic area are buried under rock and debris in the river bed.

The kids are too young to appreciate what they were seeing, but Arvid and I were just in awe of the power of a raging river!