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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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A unique New Year Resolution: on Cellphones and Sex

It is the end of December. I look outside and the lawn and trees are covered with a fresh dusting of snow. It is quiet and peaceful. I fancy I am a tracker from the time when hominids clad in animal skins would hunt grasping nothing more lethal than a flint topped spear or axe. I go out looking for deer, rabbit and fox tracks in the snow.

Nah. Who are we kidding?

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