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On the Columbia Icefield's Athabasca Glacier, Canada.

My Canadian Rockies Trip, Part 7: Columbia Icefields and a Walk on the Athabasca Glacier.

Continued from My Canadian Rockies Trip, Part 6: Maligne Lake and Spirit Island.

Today we would be visiting the Columbia Icefields, walk on a glacier— essentially a river of slow-moving ice, and get an opportunity to drink freshly melted glacier ice that had formed thousands of years ago, hopefully without modern pollutants. To that end, I kept an empty water bottle with me.

View from the Columbia ICefield Discovery Center. You can see the Icefields and Athabasca Glacier in the background.
View from the Columbia Icefield Discovery Center. You can see the Icefields and Athabasca Glacier in the background.
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