A dusty Ice Road

A trip to the Athabasca Glacier in the Canadian Rocky Mountains gives us a ride inside a mighty juggernaut with vast wide tyres. Each vehicle which is loosely called a bus normally takes visitors over ice hills before letting the people out to explore themselves on the 100 metres or so coned area of glacier surface. This they did in awe, shivering before snapping away with their phones, then jumping up and down to see if they could create new crevasses :) However even in 2016 the ice had receded so far back that we were now traveling on a wide dirt track road instead of the glacier. One had to hold on tight as the vehicle seemed at times to be almost vertical. You see here a relatively flat section but you can also see the real ice road with a red bus returning below left. See part of the road too in the first PiP.

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