Mount Edith Cavelle Hike

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Ice in August and lots of it. Some of the most unique scenery we’ve ever seen and only a short distance from the town of Jasper AB. This was an awesome half day hike. Check out the BLOG!


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View of Mt Edith Cavell, the ice capped one in the distance from dowtown Jasper.

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Mt Edith Cavell - named in honor of a British nurse who refused to leave her post at a German Hospital when WW1 broke out. She cared for wounded on both sides, was arrested as a spy and executed by Firing squad in 1915.

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That’s the Cavell Glacier and the Cavell pond that it’s melting into. Just up and to the right is the Angel Glacier, you can see it in the next pic.

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That big hunk of ice with wings is the angel glacier. When I was sitting in that spot in the earlier picture, chunks of ice were breaking off the angel and disintegrating ....very creepy noise.

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Mom Hoary Marmot. She was supervising some young ones that were running around at the beginning of the hike

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This was her about 5 hours later, as tired out as we were!

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Our very own golden mantle ground squirrel guide! They look like big chipmunks.

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See the dots up on the ridge...that’s where we’re going.

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A view of the glaciers from the top

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We made it but don’t we look so very “happy” to be freezing, it was really cold!

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The guide (or one of his relatives) even made it to the top with us!

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That speck on the ridge is a caribou...honest!

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See it really is a caribou! Rare to see.

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Another view of the pond, from here you could clearly see that what looks like rings around the edge of the glacier are really big cracks. Hunks of ice could let go at any time.

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This is definitely ICE water!!

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See the dark spot just above the horizon of the pond, that’s a cave that formed under the glacier as ice melts.

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Lots of people go right up to it even though they warn you house size pieces of the glacier can fall at any time, we decided not to take that risk after seeing some of it break off earlier.

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Hard to believe this was covered in ice back in the 50s.



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