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August 4, 2009

Crowfoot Glacier & Bow Lake

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The crowfoot glacier is located in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. This awesome sight greets you 20 miles north of Lake Louise on the Icefields Parkway. The glacier has melted back considerably since it was discovered and named, but two of the three “toes” remain. The top toe is over 150 feet thick (as high as a 10 story building) where it runs along the ridge. The lakes in this region are a beautiful turquoise color from the limestone and mineral sediment from the mountains, carried by the glacial runoff in the summer months.

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Beautiful Bow Lake at the foot of the Crowfoot Glacier.

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July 20, 2009

Vacation in the Mountains

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It has been a while since I’ve posted. I have been very busy and also managed to squeeze in a little vacation time. I traveled to beautiful British Columbia and Alberta, home to the majestic Canadian Rockies. I must recommend a road trip along the Icefields Parkway to anyone who visits this part of the world. The Ice fields Parkway is a highway that runs from Banff Alberta, north through Lake Louise to Jasper. It runs along the some of the most breathtaking scenic views of mountains, glaciers and azure lakes and rivers found anywhere in the world.

The Parkway can be traveled in a single day, or you could spend a week and not see all of the sights and activities that this region has to offer. We spent 3 days, traveling in from Kelowna in the Okanogan valley. Our first night was spent in Golden, a few hours from the Alberta border and the start of the parkway. We spent a full day driving up from Lake Louise to Jasper, and another day in the Jasper area, and traveling out to Kamloops in British Columbia.

I will be posting travel blog pages with some of the pictures I took along the way.

Takkakaw Falls in Yoho National Park
Takkakaw Falls in Yoho National Park

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