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Elbow River is a great place to play. It’s an invaluable water supply and it can wreck lives and property. And beyond all that it is beautiful.

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• There are two lookouts where you can view the falls

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• Just upstream from the falls the river makes a horseshoe turn

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• Playing in the Elbow River

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• We put in at Allen Bill and pulled out at Bragg Creek. Check stream flow.

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• Trees, pathways & picnic tables are gone

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• These paved paths, picnic tables, the earth & trees washed away in the 2013 flood

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• Downstream from the falls the river has carved a deep canyon through the rock

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• River flows from mountains into foothills at the end of Hwy 66. Little Elbow Rec Area

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• It destroyed part of Hwy 758 upstream from the Trading Post and lots more in 2013

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• Camping on the shore of Elbow Lake in Kananaskis Valley

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• elbolake

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• elbomoose

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• Mt. Rae overlooks the lake. It's glacier feeds it, the lake feeds the river.

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• The view downstream from the Balsam Ave. bridge

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• The bridge embankment washed away in the flood

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• A river of light flowing through the coloured autumn leaves

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• Low water levels reduce the size of the waterfall in winter, but it surges in spring

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• You can see people walking a path through the trees and picnic table top centre. It's all gone now

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