Columbia Icefield Banff

We were woken this morning again by the elks but this time it was the rangers moving them on from the site as they were getting to close to where people were camping. Apparently they come to the campgrounds to calf as they think it is safer as they are away from the bears etc..

We left the campsite around 9:30am and headed south along the …

This was a very exciting day as it was our first glacial adventure, the ride to to glacier was an experience, to be surrounded by high mountains, which are on the edges of the roads.


We were very fortunate with the weather as it was slightly snowing however when we got to the glacier, it had stopped for a short period, making it a …

Here I am again up waiting for everyone else. The current temperature is 30 but the good news is the high today should be in the 70's. As it is my brides birthday I am going to let her sleep and go and get her a cup of coffee which will hopefully bring her around. We have nothing planned for the morning and the helicopter tour isn't until 2pm. …

Big buses! Today I got to go for a ride on a giant bus / truck that is huge to people – you can
imagine how big it seemed to a little cat like me! The bus took me right onto a glacier but the
day began long before that.

We had a long drive to get where we were going – about three hours up the Icefields Parkway in Banff …

From Banff we began our ascent upwards along the Icefields Parkway, climbing from sub-alpine forests to alpine meadows. Heading towards Jasper we passed countless stunning view points including Herbert and Hector Lakes and then made a stop at Crowfoot Glacier. Named because in the early 1900s it had three 'toes' resembling the foot of a crow but in …

I was looking forward to the trip today that would take us to the Columbian Icefields. Pam was our guide a South African who had returned to her father's country when she became worried about the violence in Johannesburg. Unfortunately there was no microphone in the coach so we made a small detour to the beautiful Vermillion Lakes while they sorted …

On the journey between British Columbia and Alberta is the Great Divide. We were able to have one leg in the water going to the Atlantic and one in the Pacific with also the Arctic, all leading to Hudson Bay. We walked the length of Lake Louise, visiting each Tea House, and dipping our feet in the water at the top that came from the Glacier...it …

JASPER Banff to Jasper. Lake Louise to thenColumbia ice field. Glacial eclactics. They have built animal under and over bridges so that the animals can cross freely over the freeways. You must give way to animals here. So mountain sheep and elk can stand in the middle of the road and just stare at you for as long as they like. Stony Indians named …

Not a massively successful day. Started off with a drive along the Icefield Parkway, 'the most scenic drive in Canada'. Stopped off at various places for waterfalls/lakes etc. Very nice actually. Athabasca falls are pretty impressive, as are most of the stops we made along the Parkway. At the
Columbia icefield we started off on a hike up a …

We drove from Jaspa to Lake Louise. We saw another black bear. We stopped at Columbia Icefield but did not go up to the icefield as it was very cold and expensive. In the evening we went for a walk round Moraine Lake.
We stopped at the first campground with and Electric fence which kept the big bears out.
Pictures to follow again. …

... their color from suspended glacial sediment ground from the movement of ice over rock, known as rock flour. We visit the spectacular Columbia Icefield, which is so bright I get a headache from the blinding reflection of the sun on the ice. This ...

... . This is a popular place. We had a few more hikes to see waterfalls and stuff, and then reached the Columbia Icefield which is the largest glacier in Canada. We explored and Dad took a hike to see the glacier up close, but he couldn't actually touch it ...

... , waterfalls and wildlife were abundant. The mountains here are the highest, most rugged and the most scenic in all the Rockies. COLUMBIA ICEFIELD - Coivering an area the size of Vancouver (325 sq km) and as thick as 300m, the Columbia Icefield is ...

... of 12 Squaddies from the good ol' British Army on Survival Training out on the nearby icefields!! Hurrah for us!! We went to the Columbia Icefield and went up in Sno-bus up onto the glacier (much easier than the last time i negotiated the Franz Josef ...

... River Stanley Falls Tangle Falls – Easy climb to get up close the water and ice Stutfield Glacier Sunwapta Glacier Mt Kitchener Columbia Icefield – it’s possible to get on to the ice, but it’s a long walk or an expensive bus ride ...

... this particular tour. Instead, we stayed behind and visited the Icefield Centre which features interpretive displays about the Columbia Icefield.  The glaciers that are visible from our perspective are fingers of the giant Columbia Icefield, which ...

We took a day to drive from Japser to Banff via the Columbia Icefield and Lake ...

... had suggested we stopped to go on to the Columbia Icefield.    Everything about this terrain is Enormous, and the Columbia Icefield is no exception.  We were taken up onto the ice field on an ice explorer which has been specially ...

... haben wir die Umgebung genauer angeschaut und doch das eine oder andere Interessante gesehen. Z.B. Werden hier Touren auf den Columbia Icefield angeboten. Dies werden wir mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit diese Woche noch machen. Desweiteren kann man den ...

... it is a beautiful drive.  The road passes between peak after peak, many rivers and lakes paralleling the next to Columbia Icefield for a large portion.  We were bummed with the weather.  The rain became heavier and the clouds thicker the ...