Mt. Edith Cavell-- here is the glacier flowing into the lake. There was an enormous hanging glacier above that used to be connected to the lower one, but global warming separated the two. If you don't believe in climate change, seeing pictures of how this park used to look will convince you.
This is the toe of the Athabasca glacier. It was 50-something degrees right there, hence the jackets in the middle of July. This glacier is also retreating rapidly; there were markers for where it was over the last century and they were thousands of feet ahead of the current edge.
Here is Athabasca Falls. I was really excited to see it but there were swarms of tourists when we got there. Alot of them climbed over the guard rails and ruined everyone's pictures. Jerks.
On the way out we saw this bear. Isn't he cute? I must say, he is the least scary-looking bear I've ever seen. I was more inclined to jump out of the car and pet him than I was to run away from him.
That night we headed out and decided to drive through the night to Washington. What we didn't know was that Canada doesn't have 24-hour gas pumps everywhere like the US does, and we were running critically low on gas at 2 AM and 45 miles away from the next open pump. At that point, McKay said, "Don't worry, I have enough faith to get us there." I told him that he had better have enough to compensate for my lack. So we said a little prayer and miraculously got to Kamloops without having to push the car. 
4 comments:
Looks like you had so much fun!! Your pictures are beautiful! You look gorgeous in the group picture by the way. So the picture of Brandon and Violet... is that her bad sunburn that's on her face? Poor girl!
Yeah, those are her sun blisters on her face. Actually, they were just the scabs left over from them so they had really healed; it looked worse than it was. At that point they didn't bother her at all.
you look like a midget next to all the harpers.
poor violet! her little blistered face is sad.
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