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Jasper Journey – ICEFIELDS – Saddle Up
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The Columbia Icefield

So … when you get to the Icefield you’ll see this place:

Except it was rainy. Drizzly rain.
The Centre is full of people from every place on the planet.
It has a restaurant/cafeteria; a gift shop; a viewing deck; historical displays; toilets … lots of stuff.
This is also where you buy tickets for the Icefield Tour. They cost over 100 bucks each.
Then you head out back …
… and jump on one of these things.
They’re called buses.

This is Shawn … or Shane?. Our driver.
You can see the drizzly rain.

Below; MAP: Where we’re going ...

On the bus …

10 minute bus ride?
Ice Explorer Depot ahead.

We made it.

The Ice Explorer.
Not your average bus.

VROOOOOM !

Let’s ride !

Next … To the Ice!
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September 24, 2019
Jasper Journey – Icefield of Yesteryore
Climb Ev’ry Mountain / Peggy Wood
from The Sound of Music / Rogers and Hammerstein

The Columbia Icefield

The Icefields as they are today.

Coast Publishing Co (Publisher) . Athabasca Glacier and Columbia Icefield Chalet, Banff – Jasper highway, Canadian Rockies. Vancouver: Coast Publishing Co., Vancouver, B.C, cca. 1920.

Harmon Byron (Photographer) . Columbia Icefields. Banff: Photographed and Copyrighted by Byron Harmon, Banff, Canada, [before 1942].

Six-Hundred Lovat Scouts trained during the Second World War on the Athabasca Glacier in 1944. Yellowhead-Museum and Archives.

Finally we arrive at our modern Icefield conveyance:
The ICE EXPLORER!

Next … To the ICE !
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2 responses to “Jasper Journey – ICEFIELDS – Saddle Up”

maui1

September 24, 2019

This a great post on your trip to Jasper. These are really great pictures of the ice explore buses. I also really like the picture of the mountain and the discovery center from the bus.

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1. jcalberta
  
  September 25, 2019
  
  Pics are from Rose, her son Ray and his wife Sarah and myself. Had a lot to chose from.
  
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