This video is as I approached the Columbia Ice fields. Looking to the right you can see the base of a glacier who's name I can not spell! This glacier was apparently much large, and was almost at the road when the road was built, but over the years has receded back about a 1/2 mile or more to it's present location. I did hike up to it, but not onto it. I'll be standing in enough snow and ice in a few months, didn't really feel the need to subject myself to that memory. I mentioned in an earlier post that I wasn't too impressed with it. It looked like a big dirty piece of ice. The glaciers we saw in Alaska, and the one I saw in Glacier NP were a little more impressive in size, and appeared cleaner. The video below is as I am leaving Jasper NP and not long before I came across the cars stopped for the grizzly.
This is a blog about my trip from central New York to Alaska, up to the Arctic Circle and back home on a 2009 BMW R1200GS motorcycle. 2011 I included my cross country ride to Idaho, and the National Parks I will be touring.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
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