![]() The remoteness of the Canadian Rockies includes only one two-lane asphalt highway uniting Banff National Park and Jasper National Park. Their stunning blue is because of rock flour or glacial flour so named because glaciers grind limestone bedrock into fine dust that reflects the sun’s rays back as a brilliant blue. ![]() There are vast mountain ranges and turquoise-blue and aquamarine glacier-fed lakes like Lake Louise, Peyto Lake, Moraine Lake, and Maligne Lake. The drive from Banff to Jasper traverses the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site, through one of the largest protected areas in the world complete with elk, loons, and grizzly bears. Understanding climate change is important wherever you are on planet earth.ĭuring one of the hottest summers ever recorded, my wife and I ventured north into western Canada to travel the Icefields Parkway described by National Geographic as the “Drive of a lifetime – one of the world’s most spectacular driving tours.” What we saw and what we learned included a visit to one of the continent’s epicenters for climate change – the Columbia Icefield and the receding Athabasca Glacier shrinking after 15,000 years. What is a column about Canadian glaciers doing in a newspaper section titled Southwest Life? Well, we were southwest of the Arctic Circle. The entire lake shore is wilderness surrounded by steep mountains of the Queen Elizabeth Ranges and three melting glaciers. Canada has numerous remote glacial lakes, but the largest is Maligne Lake in Jasper National Park, Alberta, which is accessible by only one road at one point.
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