The Columbia Icefield can provide year-long temperatures that
range from 6 months of cool temperatures to the remaining 6 months of freeze
your butt weather. Due to the extreme weather conditions, tours of the area
operate only during the months of April to October. The size of these ice
fields is probably best described as mammoth. The small dark dot further back in the center of
the first photo is a bus that transports visitors to the field. When you note the size of
the bus in the second photo it provides some perspective on the vastness,
dwindling by some estimates, of these ice formations. That's solid and very thick ice under the bus. Both photos were taken in the month of September. Perhaps the images will help keep some people cool this holiday weekend.
You can read more at this link: http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/ab/jasper/activ/explore-interets/glacier-athabasca.aspx
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