Icefield parkway
September 27th 2007 Today we drove along the Icefield parkway to a world heritage Glacier... the Athabasca, right next to the highway!
The Columbia Icefield (of which Athabasca is part) is a surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains. Lying on a wide, elevated plateau, it is the largest icefield in the Canadian Rockies. Because of a warming climate, the Athabasca G
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