Wednesday, July 18, 2007

The Icefields Parkway


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Originally uploaded by Polish Carpetlayer.

It's pretty much impossible to overstate how amazingly beautiful the drive is through the Canadian Rockies from Jasper National Park to Banff National park. This 180 mile journey is awe inspiring and quite literally to much for words or pictures. Basically you start out in Jasper on a three hour drive and end up in Banff eight to nine hours later. In between you see some one-of-a-kind landscape including a natural river (read no dams so it gets huge in the spring and dwindles down to a very small roar in the late summer), lakes that have some of the blue-est water you've ever seen, countless mountains jutting up all around you, wildlife, massive waterfalls falling thousands of feet, glaciers including one of the largest in North America (it is the beginning of the Columbia river), and much more than I can describe.

We took some pictures. Click here to see them all and enjoy the ride. We did.








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