“Heading [south], the Icefields Parkway links Lake Louise
with Jasper National Park, along the way passing through a northern fantasy of
hanging glaciers, deep river valleys and waterfalls, subalpine forests, and the
Columbia Icefield, one of the largest accumulations of ice south of the Arctic
Circle, covering nearly 116-square-miles.”
The drive from Jasper to Banff was rainy and so I didn’t
stop everywhere I planned, but the drive was stunning. Glacier-fed lakes and rivers everywhere and
actual glaciers. One of the excursions I
decided against was a drive onto the glacier at the Columbia Icefield. Instead, I stopped at a viewpoint and took
pictures of the Athabasca toe.
