Water - all states

Roger, welcome back!  The clouds of vapor backlit by the sun are very dramatic.  The snow on the bank, rocks in the foreground and the river make a fine counterpoint to the mist.  The pano format looks good.  Is the river surface open water?  Does it ever freeze solid?

Very beautiful, Roger.  While you might have wanted a wider view, I think the scale of the trees and rocks works well in this image.  The light on the vapor is great.

Thanks Mark and Dennis, for your comments.  Good to be back.

Mark, it is open water in the image and I have never seen the river frozen at this location. It is at the Sixth Bridge, just before the Maligne River enters the Athabasca River.  And it is of course in Jasper National Park, not in Banff National Park, as I had absentmindedly written in the post.

I found this explanation on the internet at https://www.hikebiketravel.com/25007/nottobe-missed-maligne-canyon-icewalk-jasper/
Maligne Canyon lies in what is known as karst terrain, characterized by an extensive underground system of caves and fissures formed in limestone rock. The water in the Maligne River that you see flowing through Maligne Canyon comes in part from nearby Medicine Lake. The water supplying Medicine Lake itself is a combination of glacier melt (80%), snow melt (15%) and rainwater (5%).  Medicine Lake drains like a bathtub – at the bottom – and through a network of caves and fissures some of the water reaches the Maligne River. They know this because scientists put a harmless dye in Medicine Lake which in the summer reached the Maligne River in 12 hours. But when the temperatures drop, the Maligne River flow is curtailed and the dye in the winter takes 88 hours to flow underground from Medicine Lake to the Maligne River. Also interesting is that some stretches of the river which are fed by these springs never freeze because the water is coming out of the ground at about 4 degrees Celsius (39F).

Note: As I recall this was fluorescein.