Day 167: Glacier fed

When we drove from Jasper to Banff back in 2008, we stopped at the Columbia Icefields centre and took the snowcoach tour out onto the Athabasca glacier. As we made our way back onto the bus, a heavy storm came over the Columbia Icefield and set about drenching everything in its path. Today we had perfect clear skies, and it was warm! Even out on the glacier we only needed a single warm layer. And I was amazed to see that we were the only coach out there - last time there were three or four out there at the same time - so we had a very peaceful time walking around on the ice. We filled our water bottles with fresh glacier meltwater, took a load of pictures and marvelled at standing on a glacier.

On the Athabasca Glacier