This is the caravan crew on the glacier
Friday, June 24, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Day 7
We have arrived on our tour bus and have transferred to the "Ice Explorer" This is the road to the glacier. We are going down a 18% grade. Then on to the ice.
Day 7
Roger and I are having some pure glacier water. Behind us is another glacier that is rare in that it is a mountain top glacier. Interesting that we are on a glacier and we can see two others very close.
Day 7
Columbia Icefield 130 square miles (this is only 1% of it. Largest body of ice in the Rocky Mt. The highest point is 12,284 ft. greates depth 12,200 ft.
Athabasca Glacier area 2.5 square miles 3.75 miles long depth is 279 to 1,000 ft.
Day 7
We are now on the Glacier. This contraption called an Ice Explorers got us here. According to our driver these machines are only used here. Is was quite a ride. We took a motorcoach sshuttle bus part way then we transfered to the Ice Machine. We traveled on the lateral maraine then to the ice and went to the top as far as the icefalls.
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