Sunday, 26 August 2007

Cavell Meadows Hike



Not content with doing 10km in the morning, I drive to the Mount Cavell area of Jasper to do a hike which should be pretty good as it gets quite close to a couple of glaciers - The Angel Glacier and Edith Cavell glacier. The hike takes me through alpine meadows above the treeline and various viewpoints along the way of the glacier. The weather doesn't know what it is doing - it is sunny one moment and then spots with rain. There are quite a few animals around as well - Hoary Marmots, Pica, white tailed Ptarmiggan and the obligatory Golden Mantle squirrels. There are a couple of waterfalls falling from the glacier and avalanches are common in summer - still some stupid people wander right underneath it to check things out.
Pictures (Left) - View of Angel Glacier (hanging off the mountain), Cavell glacier (by the green lake). (Right) - The sun breaks out on the glacier, (Bottom) - View looking down the valley towards Jasper

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