Day 7 –Jasper to Lake Louise, the Columbia Icefield, and Athabasca Glacier!

This is the most exciting day of our journey! The opportunity to actually step out and walk on a glacier is a first for two travelers who have visited Alaska and South America’s glaciers many times over already, but never so up-close and personal. We traveled on one of the most scenic highways of the world, the Icefield Parkway, and made a stop at Athabasca falls before heading to the Athabasca Glacier for our trek onto the glacier in specially-designed motorized behemoths.

Our morning was most rested, thanks again to the supreme soft down pillows generously heaped on the bed. I had to tear Nathan away from them this morning, and double check that he (thankfully) had not packed away a pair in our luggage somehow. Read the rest of this entry »

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