SATURDAY July 7th, 2007
We drive from Lake Louise to Jasper with the occassional stop to enjoy the sites. We spy some mountain goats along the road and take a ride on the Athabasca Glacier in the Columbia Icefield. Our ride is a large wheeled buggy that traverses some rugged territory including a 32 degree incline to get on the glacier. We were able to get out on the glacier for a while in an area that the ice is about 1,000 feet thick. While on the buggy, we hear “you guys are from Georgia!” It was a woman who saw us in a small restaurant in town last week that we have never met before – VERY small world. This icefield is right on the continental divide, and as we leave, we notice the river along the side of the road that we have followed for 75 miles, is now running in the other direction (west). The water on this side of the continental divide is headed for the Pacific Ocean. We also realize we are as far north as we have ever been – a record we will break each and every day for a week now.
We drive from Lake Louise to Jasper with the occassional stop to enjoy the sites. We spy some mountain goats along the road and take a ride on the Athabasca Glacier in the Columbia Icefield. Our ride is a large wheeled buggy that traverses some rugged territory including a 32 degree incline to get on the glacier. We were able to get out on the glacier for a while in an area that the ice is about 1,000 feet thick. While on the buggy, we hear “you guys are from Georgia!” It was a woman who saw us in a small restaurant in town last week that we have never met before – VERY small world. This icefield is right on the continental divide, and as we leave, we notice the river along the side of the road that we have followed for 75 miles, is now running in the other direction (west). The water on this side of the continental divide is headed for the Pacific Ocean. We also realize we are as far north as we have ever been – a record we will break each and every day for a week now.
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