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Mt. Robson, Mt. Athabasca & Edith Cavell, August 2003 Click on any picture to see a full-screen view (large view pictures are about 1mb) |
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| Climbing Mt. Athabasca...good weather and great views | ||
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| Unfortunately, none of us thought to take a long-range photo of Mt. Athabasca (say from the tourist lodge across the highway). This (foreshortened) shot is from where the climb starts. | After perhaps an hour of hiking up the rock of the terminal moraine, we got on the lower Athabasca glacier. | Sun, clouds and light provided good picture opportunities. The summit appears much closer then it actually is due to camera foreshortening. |
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| Dan tried really hard to find this particular crevasse (grin). | Traversing this section was one area where we did not want to have anyone start sliding! | Heading to the upper plateau of Athabasca. |
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| Dan on the summit ridge of Athabasca. | Dan and Mike on the summit ridge of Mt. Athabasca. | View looking North from the summit. Lodge is at lower right. |
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| View of the Columbia icefields and Mt. Columbia from the summit of Mt. Athabasca. | Ted and Dan enjoying a snack and the view from the summit of Mt. Athabasca. | Dan & Mike ready to head down from the summit of Mt. Athabasca. |
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| Looking down toward the glacier the pours off of the Columbia icefield. You can see the tourist busses and "trail" they plow on the glacier for tourists to travel on a "real" glacier! | Heading down the Mt. Athabasca summit plateau. | Back across the attention-getting traverse on Mt. Athabasca. |
| Next...on to climb Mt. Edith Cavell | ||
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