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| Ice Walk |
Columbia Icefields are located between Jasper and Lake
Louise. Parks Canada runs the area as it
is part of the National Park system. The
large transporters cost $1 million dollars.
A company that does oil drilling makes them. There are 23 of them and Canada owns 22
located here and the US owns one located in Antarctica. We took the ride up to the Athabasca
Glacier. You can walk up but much more
fun to ride. The transporter drives the
gravel road up to the start of the glacier where then they go through water to rinse
the debris from the wheels before they get on the ice. Colder up there of course even thought it was
a sunny day. Park Canada has also built
the ice walk platform where you have a great view of multiple glaciers. This area is the "Triple Divide" adjacent to the Continental Divide. It's triple because one side the water flows north to the Arctic Ocean; one flows to the Columbia and south to California; and one flows south the the Gulf of Mexico via Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
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| My grandchildren would say "don't fall down Nonni" since I am known to fall --clumsy! |
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| Standing on the glacier |
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| View of the upper side of Athabasca Glacier |
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| Ice Walk overlook |
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| Crevice below with Athabasca River flowing thru |
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