08.11.14
Today we did a lot. First, we went to check out the Angel Glacier, which was pretty cool. It looked like an angel, with outspread wings on the rock. And it was also huge. We were really close to it, and although I couldn't touch it, it looked really big for a glacier that wasn't high up in the air. I would've expected it to melt away already. Especially since I was practically frying up, standing there in the hot sun. The glacier was cool though, not just because it was big, but because it had an interesting shape. Most of the glaciers I had seen up to that point were just randomly-shaped blobs, but this actually looked like an angel.
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| Angel Glacier |
We walked up the mountain a bit. It led us further away from the glacier, but we got a better view of it and a different angle. I could see both wings of the angel spread out against the rock. It was really cool.
After a while, we left to go see another glacier. But I was excited this time, because we would be walking on this glacier.
We took this huge red bus up the mountain to get to the glacier. And the bus was, like I said, huge. It wasn't so much that it could fit a lot of people, but it was the wheels that were huge. They were almost as tall as me. And the bus ride was bumpy. Like, really bumpy. There was also this huge hill we had to go down, and it was really steep. The steepest commercial road in America, I think. And finally, after a five-minute journey, we were at the glacier.
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| Athabasca Glacier |
The air was cold, but the glacier was colder. It was weird and cool (no pun intended), since the glacier beneath my feet wasn't quite ice but it wasn't snow either. It was something in between. And it was blue! But the coolest part? (I have to stop using the word "cool".) The glacier water was drinkable! And we had brought along water bottles! So without hesitation, we filled up our water bottles with clear glacier water. It was cold, but good. Actually, it didn't taste any different from water I usually drink, but it felt good drinking it. Too soon, we had to leave again, but I left feeling happy.
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| Skywalk |
Our last stop was the Skywalk. It wasn't as cool as the glacier, but it was still pretty cool. The basic idea was that it was a walkway completely made out of glass. So if you looked down, it looked like you weren't standing on anything, which was pretty cool. Unfortunately, that was the last stop of our day, and we caught the last bus to the parking lot, from which we drove home.
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