The drive from Banff to Jasper is spectacular! We drove down to the Columbia Icefields and took a bus up onto the Athabasca Glacier(it is the most visited glacier in North America, probably because it is one of the most accessible). This glacier has been shrinking for the past 125 years and has lost half it’s volume and receded 1.5 kms. Athabasca is 6 kilometers wide and 1 kilometer long. The Columbia Icefields behind it feed this glacier and 5 others. This is one of only 2 places in the world where there is a triple continental divide(water flows north to the Artic, east to the Atlantic and west to the Pacific). It was very cool to be standing on a glacier ice that is thousands of years old, but wasn’t quite worth the money.
I had never heard of a triple continental divide. Very interesting. Thanks for sharing that!