Edmonton Day 3

Got Tim Horton’s, put on Metric’s “Fantasies” and hit the highway. Road trip!!


We headed South from Edmonton and passed through Leduc, Ponoka, Lacombe, Bentley, Rocky Mountain House, Horburg, Harlech, Nordegg, the Kootenay Plains, the Saskatchewan River Crossing en route to the Columbia Icefields.

The landscape is filled with a lot of canola at this time, which you can tell by its bright yellow colour. There’s also an Amish presence. When we first left Edmonton the land was flat; slowly rolling hills appeared, then BIG rolling hills, then the first mountains appeared. Then the first bear!

And our first ridiculously-colored lake! The color is created by the rock-flour suspension in the glacial runoff-supplied water.

Eventually we got tired of being cooped up inside the car and I wanted some exercise so I did weights:

We made it to the Columbia Icefields, which were amazing; we got to stand right in the middle of it.

What we’re standing on in this picture is actually a moraine, a hill formed of crushed rock that can no longer be supported underneath the weight of a glacier and get pushed out to the sides:

Once we finished with the ice fields, we headed north to Jasper. On the way we spotted a goat!

…and a rainbow! No, it wasn’t a double rainbow 🙂