Like a good tourist, we went on the Brewster bus to the Athabasca glacier. It's a bus that costs way too much to drive you up this glacier and then enclose you in an iced parking lot type surface so you can take pictures of each other.
As you can see, they marked off the safe area with cones. Glaciers in the summer are especially dangerous because they shift and you can fall into a crevasse and suffocate. I spent a previous day reading up on the Swiss rescue technique for people trapped in crevasses. Thus I felt like I couldtake this picture while risking my life, off the coned safety zone.
But away from the cones you can see the runoff and the crevasses carved by the waters.
An ice cave visible from the iced parking lot.
Alternatively, for no fee, you can hike a few miles up on the other side of the road and get a view of six different glaciers from Wilcox pass. Here's Athabasca glacier again, and you can see the road taken by the Brewster buses and the parking lot way in the distance.
From the pass we saw a herd of big horn sheep. C took this picture. It's unique because my lens and camera have no zoom capability. So the sheep is about 10 feet away from him. I was all ready to dive into the river, believing somehow that sheep can't swim.
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