Athabasca Glacier Banff National Park

127 km (79 mi) north of Lake Louise, 103 km (64 mi) south of Jasper Banff National Park , Canadian Rockies, Alberta, Canada

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  • Oh my it is snowing.

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    karliengossross 0 contribution Mtunzini, KwaZulu Natal, South Aftica, South Africa Oct 28, 2000

    We enjoyed our very first glacier! We even tasted the ice!

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    The day got so much better after the coyote's butt

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    We needed to get an early start this morning as I wanted to be out at the the Icefields Centre 126 km away for the first tour to allow us to get back for our walk. The Icefields Parkway is another great drive. It runs from Banff to Jasper with some of the prettiest /wildest scenery you are likely to see. There truly is a postcard around every …

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    Waterfalls and snow capped mountains

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    27 October 2000
    The sunrise is only at 9 in the morning, also the time we have to get the car at the station. Since the car was not ready we enjoyed a complementary breakfast, used the internet and I could stroll through the streets of this beautiful little town once more. By 10:30 we are on the road again. The road from Jasper - Banff - Lake …

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    2 August 2005 - Banff

    ... avalanches the second body may never be recovered. Ed and Prue caught up with Wilbur and Mae, Ed's church friends, at both Athabasca Glacier and again last night for a coffee at their accommodation, Fairmont Jasper Park. Long way to come for a ...

  • 2

    The Rockies Rock! (Part 2)

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    ... hills must be exhilarating, I would have loved it!  Our first stop of Day 2 was the Colombia Ice fields, specifically Athabasca Glacier.  This is a huge glacier which you can access via custom made buses.  The cost of the excursion ...

  • 3

    Onto Banff

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    ... town. So they say! We stopped at the Columbia Icefields and had a group photo taken before boarding an Ice Explorer (bus) to the Athabasca Glacier where we nearly froze to death but it was worth it.  Afterwards we stopped for a look at Bow Lake - ...

  • 4

    Jasper to Banff

    ... large chocolate muffin for me and hot chocolate.We then pushed on to Athabasca Falls, an impressive water fall fed by the athabasca glacier and river. The canyon was deep, the beds of sediomentary rock, mostly limestone, clearly visible. After photos we ...

  • 5

    More Adventures in the Rockies

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    ... which meant no dishes! 16th July 2007 - Johnson Canyon - Banff Today we headed off to Althabasca Falls before the Glacier walk on Athabasca Glacier. I bought sunglasses because the sun was going to create some glare and then 5 min later lost them. I am ...

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    Scenery was just incredible!!!

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    ... Glacier was pretty big. In reality, there are 5 Glaciers which all kind of join together in the mountain range. We were seeing the Athabasca Glacier out of the 5 of them, and in something really cool, we were actually going to walk on it!! We had to go ...

  • 7

    Jasper, Alberta to Banff

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    ... the confines of Jasper National Park. I did take a mile hike up a steep rocky slope to get to the edge of the Athabasca Glacier. I stopped halfway up and looked around for the Life Flight Chopper warming up  on the Helipad. There was none, so I ...

  • 8

    Icefield Parkway

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    ... on September 14, 1907 as Jasper Forest Park, and was granted national park status in 1930. Banff National Park is Canada's oldest national park, established in 1885, in the Canadian Rockies. The park encompasses 6,641kmē of mountainous terrain, ...

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    Toward Alaska via Banff and Jasper

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    ... intersection and a hotbed of heli-skiing and other treacherous sporting activities along the boundary of Mount Revelstoke National Park and Glacier National Park (not the one in Montana, the Canadian one). Some administration chores kept us in ...

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    Moose trip day 4

    ... nbsp;the rock. It was very fast and the river at the bottom was a lovely blue colour. As we headed back to the Athabasca glacier information centre (we had been there on day 3 of the tour) we past glaciers up in the mountains and Tangle falls. ...