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| Back to PNW & Canada 2011 photos Take a crampon-strapped walk on the ice of Athabasca Glacier! Also see the panoramas. Like most glaciers around the world, it is quickly melting from global warming; the glacier covered most of the valley seen here as recently as just a few decades ago. |
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| A look back at the valley, now covered in moraine but no ice: | |||||||
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| Bedrock with striations from the glacier: | |||||||
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