We started the next day early in the morning and stopped at the Peyto Lake Viewpoint. It was lightly snowing while we got there and MH and I crunched the freshly fallen snow as we trekked out to the viewpoint. The Lake is glacially-fed which makes it a brilliant turquoise.
Our next stop was the Columbia Icefield. At the Icefield Center, we took the Brewster Ice Explorer tour.
The tour takes you out onto Athabasca glacier, one of the six principal 'toes' of the Columbia Icefield. We were told that if you drink water from the glacier it makes you 10 years younger. MH and I both tried the glacier water and it tasted like extremely cold filtered water. We'll have to wait and see about the alleged side effects.
After the tour, we continued up the road to Jasper National Park. We stopped to see Athabasca falls and then headed into town for lunch.
After lunch, we drove to Mount Edith Cavell, but when we arrived it started to rain. There is a trail that I wanted to take to see Angel Glacier, but after a few minutes in the rain we decided to head back to the car and start our long drive to Vancouver.
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