Columbia Icefield Bus, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

We drove the Icefields Parkway up to the Columbia Icefield. We took the Brewster Ice bus out onto the glacier and walked around a secure area of the glacier.


The Columbia Icefield is located on the boundary of Banff and Jasper National Parks and is one of the largest accumulations of ice and snow south of the Arctic Circle.


There are eight major glaciers including the Athabasca, Dome, and Stutfield Glaciers, all visible from the Icefields Parkway. The Columbia Icefield feeds streams and rivers that pour into the Arctic, Atlantic, and Pacific oceans. It was an astonishing place.


Jon on the glacier.


Hiking on the glacier.


Front of the Brewster Ice bus.