September 20 - Ivan and I drove back on the Icefield Parkway to the Icefield Center. This is a place where you can sign on to take a bus to a location near the glacier and board a sort-of bus which takes you to the glacier. This Glacier Bus actually goes out onto the Athabasca glacier. You can walk on the glacier and learn about what these ice structures are composed of, what effects they are having on the environment, how they are 'behaving' under conditions of global warming, etc. This was fascinating and very educational. The photo shows the gravel road our Glacier bus drove on. There are 3 buses in the photo ahead of ours. The pitch of this road was breathtaking, to put it mildly!
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