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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!

Tags: Columbia Icefields, Jasper, Jasper National Park, Jasper Posters, Jasper the Bear, Maligne Lake, Tangle Creek, Tangle Falls, The Columbia Icefields, The Rockies

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Jasper Journey – Icefield of Yesteryore

19 Sep

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 !

Tags: Columbia Icefields, Jasper, Jasper National Park, Jasper Posters, Jasper the Bear, Maligne Lake, Tangle Creek, Tangle Falls, The Columbia Icefields, The Rockies

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Jasper Journey – Heading for the Icefields …

16 Sep

Rainy Day People / Gordon Lightfoot

Heading for the Icefields

Rainy.
But we’ve got an appointment at the Icefields.

Mountains are like oceans.
Even in bad weather
they are beautiful
and mysterious.

At Last!!!
Icefields in sight!

Tags: Columbia Icefields, Jasper, Jasper National Park, Jasper Posters, Jasper the Bear, Maligne Lake, Tangle Creek, Tangle Falls, The Columbia Icefields, The Rockies

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Jasper Journey – Athabasca Falls …

10 Sep

Blue Water / Poco

Day 2: Rain
We head out for our scheduled Tour of Columbia Icefields.
But on the way we stop at

Athabasca Falls

Decisions, decisions …

Be careful …

Deadly accident at Athabasca Falls

Posted date: August 12, 2011 / https://www.fitzhugh.ca/author/admin/

… Public Safety Warden Garth Lemke … said the individual went over the very top left-hand side of the falls at approximately 3:15 pm.
… “It looked like every solid structure in his body had been broken,” … “It wasn’t a pleasant scene.”
In the past 20 years, the park has reported five fatalities at Athabasca Falls, all of the accidents occurring in a similar location.
… “Chances are the victim died from the impact of the fall into the rocky waters, but hypothermia can also be fatal if a victim survives the fall …”
The area where the individual fell is blocked off by protective railings, along with signage warning visitors to stay back.

Hear the thunder

Ray and Sarah’s video. Thanks guys.