We travelled from Banff to Jasper yesterday through the Columbian Icefields. Along the way we tried to stump our driver Frederick to no avail. The guy was much smarter than a 5th grader. I found out so much information that if i don't write some of it down my brain might combust. I guess that when you see valleys between mountains if they are shaped like a "V" then water caused the erosion. If they are shaped like a "U" then it was a glacier and this on this trip we were on a glacier hunt. The good news is glaciers don't move fast and they stand out against the mountains so they weren't too hard for us to find...plus we had Freddy. The top left photo is the beginning of the ice fields. I guess glaciers are like rivers and the icefields are like the lakes. The icefield pushes the glacier because of the weight of snow and ice accumulated. It just pushes the bottom and that forms the glacier which we get to see the tow of. Top right is a picture of me looking down into Lake Hector. I guess the English hired this Hector guy to discover Canada, kind of like Lewis and Clark. Just never heard of a guy named Hector in Canada...let alone being one of the countries great adventurer. I guess Canada was much bigger than he thought so he only got half way done. The bottom two photos are the Columbia IceFields. We were fortunate enough to walk on the icefield. We took a ride up in these massive monster trucks. I finally have walked on water. All of you that didn't think i could do it :-p
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