Uploaded September 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
On the south side of Highwood Pass, in the Kananaskis, rises a peak called Mt. Arethusa. The hike up to this peak, through the larch filled cirque is a spectacular one. On this September day there had already been snow, which is a common occurrence in the Canadian Rockies. The family mission was to climb through the golden larches that had started to turn colour on this early autumn day. Music available on iTunes: Mike Fijal
On the south side of Highwood Pass, in the Kananaskis, rises a peak called Mt. Arethusa. The hike up to this peak, through the larch filled cirque is a spectacular one. On this September day there had already been snow, which is a common occurrence in the Canadian Rockies. The family mission was to climb through the golden larches that had started to turn colour on this early autumn day. Music available on iTunes: Mike Fijal










![Writing on Stone Park
Blackfoot elder, Leroy Little Bear said about ‘Writing on Stone park: “Spirits did the writing on the stones”.“The wind never stops blowing around here. It is forever bringing the news…We don’t call it wind, but something that actually goes through everything
To really discover a place, you have to make a journey to the centre; to the heart of the matter. That takes time, and it takes heart. You may not know you’ve arrived for some time. It may not occur to you for many days after you’ve come back, and then, maybe only in your dreams.
Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park is one of the largest areas of protected prairie in the Alberta park system, and serves as both a nature preserve and protection for a large number of aboriginal rock carvings and paintings. The park is important and sacred to the Blackfoot and many other aboriginal tribes. The park has been nominated by Parks Canada and the Government of Canada as a World Heritage Site. Its UNESCO application was filed under the name Áísínai’pi which is Niitsítapi (Blackfoot) meaning it is pictured / written.[2] The provincial park is synonymous with the Áísínai’pi National Historic Site of Canada.[3]
Music by Michael Fijal
#Writingonstonepark #Niitsitapi #classicalguitar #Indigenousart #sacredsite Writing on Stone Park](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/h67FTWeFSIM/mqdefault.jpg)