Walking On Cloud Nine!
Going up the Athabasca Glacier in a Snow-Coach was one of the highlights of our Rocky Mountain trip experience. We had pre-booked our SnoCoach tickets at the time of booking our bus tour so we did not have to wait much at the Icefield Discovery Centre.
First an ordinary bus took us up midway to the SnoCoach terminus where we boarded the giant coach with huge tires. It took about 15 minutes to reach the glacier where we were allowed to get down and walk on the crunchy ice of the glacier. Suddenly it was freezing cold in mid-summer, enough to make my cell-phone shut down. We were thankful to have worn warm clothing and proper walking shoes. There were flags of different countries planted in the ice, and a trickle of pure glacier melt water which we collected in a bottle to drink later.
There were signs that the glacier is receding at an alarming rate, which is a clear indication of global warming.
For us the glacier walk was like an other worldly experience, as if we had been walking on Cloud Nine!
Show lessFirst an ordinary bus took us up midway to the SnoCoach terminus where we boarded the giant coach with huge tires. It took about 15 minutes to reach the glacier where we were allowed to get down and walk on the crunchy ice of the glacier. Suddenly it was freezing cold in mid-summer, enough to make my cell-phone shut down. We were thankful to have worn warm clothing and proper walking shoes. There were flags of different countries planted in the ice, and a trickle of pure glacier melt water which we collected in a bottle to drink later.
There were signs that the glacier is receding at an alarming rate, which is a clear indication of global warming.
For us the glacier walk was like an other worldly experience, as if we had been walking on Cloud Nine!
Date of experience: August 2019
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