[Canada] I worry about global warming on Athabasca Glaciers in Columbia Icefield of Jasper National Park

Harboring the breathtaking Canadian Rocky ran 14 days of travel the Icefields Parkway in Canada drive! Time aimlessly past year, these photos again here in California, it is a dream for all of it ... I want to ...

Icefields Parkway just in the middle of the head of the Big Bend This exceeds the glacier appears again.

"This is done by looking at the landscape can quickly and 1500s have been! Which must build the car where ..." This idea is that by the time ...

Appears and the three-way junction and a large parking lot, made it to Canada flashing Jasper Ice Field National Park Tourist Information Center (Icefield Centre) is shown on the right. (Google Click here for location map) Wonderful turquoise railing going up the stairs of the building was impressive, and hung the Canadian flag 10003 I do not know why ...

The area opposite the building, the Columbia Icefields most famous Athabasca glacier seems, reading the description of the signs in 1844 that the glacier has completely covered up to now had been the parking lot! However, during the past 150 years, 1.5km or melted away, leaving the edge, I could end up halfway down the hill away.

Inside the building is the largest national park in Canada Jasper National Park begins with a sign indicating that the ancient glaciers (glacier) and the many exhibits are equipped with all amenities such as restaurants were.

But the most important feature of the tourist information center on the left side of the picture 'Glacier Experience' to be selling a huge table with wheels ride snowmobile ice climbing experience in the middle that allows you to be. However, the price is a whopping $ 49 per adult, $ 24, and the children! To save time, we have (?) ... One just decided to pass

Went up the glacier in the intersection, the left curved road riding snowmobile parking rises far out, and go right down to the top of the photo shown to the right will put the car in the parking lot at the end of the glacier can walk as far as looks. (Click on the top represents enlarged photo stick, ice climbing snowmobile across the middle and the bottom, you can see people apply)

Beyond the parking lot to the right of another glacier in Glacier Dome (Dome Glacier) is shown. Looking up ...

Looking at this angle, falling, glaciers is not icefall like they should be called ^ ^

Our family with strong legs (as expected of you ^ ^) in order to walk across the parking lot to see the glaciers came. Glacier trail signs for the entrance to introduce a number of UNESCO World Heritage Site, and has been described, with highland air is thin, so while the far right of the picture a bunch of people could fall as the kindly guidance set.

When you start to climb on top of me feel like I was going to be, is really quite bleak difficult uphill ... ~

It took about 25 minutes came up to the view point. While my wife and daughter smiling photo is quite difficult ... officially in a state where more foot climb up the glacier is prohibited for safety reasons. But behind the iron door, not a spectacular place to keep it stretched enough and the only one visible white line, as shown in the photo go over a lot of people standing on a glacier like stepping up to the present, I ... I could not hit the urge to root ~ ^ ^ So, the first wife, and wisdom, and went down to wait in the car, I ventured around is one!

Covered with the dust of the best ice in the bottom, then rises to walk in it was not very clean feel. shown in the photo, especially the cracked ice crevasses (crevasse) is there, the depth and the depth is 2 ~ 3m. In fact, previously frozen dead children lost in this accident because that will control for safety reasons. (Again, because it is officially off-limits, according to report in this article is, do not judge my style)

See the glacier in about 10 minutes to jump up low hill near the white ice cap is not supported.

So, this is about the illegal (?) To leave photos of the evidence is committed by 'habing' decided. (Well there you go - just took pictures ... ^ ^)

Two people in front of me to go take pictures of each other, gave evidence of a couple from Germany. The end of June glacier melt water in the hot sun so 'water album "creates the creek was flowing down, for some reason this seems to be good for the body and drank glacier water is sup-flowing ice streams are more down, more and more ice deep parser, small crevasses have been created, as shown above.

Athabasca glacier on the way back to the parking lot, taken down, which is displayed trail points in the middle of the year so there are many places that I could have come down from the glacier at this point tells us. It is also noticeable in the picture or on the rocks in the bottom vertical scratches, which is right at the bottom of the glacier come down out Over trace of a flat rock. That is, the softer rock solid ice 'planer' will ^ ^ The song was popular in the karaoke chorus of 'history is blurred-cow' is like a glacier flows. (How many know the song Lana?) True, global warming ... Global Warming ... Snowmobile the English, at a time like this. Glacier foot diameter feel the seriousness of the whole body. Our 25-minute walk up the darkness, she can not even take one hour later days.