columbia icefield - athabasca glacier

date hiked: august 23, 2006
distance: 2 km/1.242 miles
time: 45 minutes

the athabasca glacier is part of the columbia icefield and is the most frequented glacier on the north american continent. you can take a short venture to the forefield of the glacier (as we did). you can also ride an ice explorer onto the middle of the athabasca and walk about 5 km into the glacier (which we also did). it was a cloudy and cold day…so much of the glacier is not visible in our pictures.

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