Grassi Lakes

The Upper and Lower Grassi Lakes lie at a height of around 1,525 m 5,003 ft in the southern Canadian Rockies disregarding the town of Canmore, Alberta. They get their water from the Spray Lakes Reservoir on the Spray River. The land is a piece of the Canmore Nordic Center Provincial Park, or, in other words the Kananaskis Country stop framework. The lakes are named after Lawrence Grassi 1890– 1980, an Italian who emigrated to Canada in 1912. Subsequent to working for the Canadian Pacific Railway for quite a long while, he started fill in as an excavator in the Canmore coal mines in 1916.

Grassi proceeded to wind up a very much regarded climbing guide and manufactured numerous trails in the territory, including the one to the Grassi Lakes that bear his name. The little, emerald-hued Grassi Lakes are a prevalent goal for explorers and shake climbers. They lie at the foot of dark precipices that are around 75 m 246 ft high. The precipices are a piece of the Cairn Formation, a fossil reef that shaped amid the Late Devonian period. The precipice is a most loved of shake climbers who utilize the pockets left by the wipes as hand-and decent footings.