These pictures were taken at the Columbia Ice Fields near Jasper National Park in Canada. To access the ice fields you ride a snowcoach shown in the top picture. It's kind of neat to get out and walk around on ice that's been there for hundreds of years.
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These look sooo cold! I can just feel the crisp air.
Now that's a whole lot of ice and snow ...
Sounds like fun. Can you slide all the way to the bottom? These are beautiful shots.
Neal: These are spectacular shots, I've never seen anything like this in person.
Just great. Such nature makes me look without closing my eyes a minute :-)
Nice weekend to you, from Anne in Norway.
Beautiful area.. was up there before and loved it!!!
Mountain Retreat
I am now taking a diminishing dose of steroids for my Rheumatoid Arthritis pain and it works. I believe the chemotherapy drug is spelled "Methotrexate" that is used to treat a lot of things from cancer to arthritis will be used next. I just relish in being pain free.
So I am not participating in Sky Watch Friday just because I might not be able to make it around to all.
I enjoyed seeing your blog post for Sky Watch Friday and I thought your photography was excellent.
I don't know if you like to read or not but if you do this place is amazing.
I just got my first shipment of used books from Strand's bookstore in New York City, yesterday. They have 18 miles of used books. Think about that. Anyway, they got here and I am totally happy with those I chose to read. I had to start out by just choosing a category, like photography, and go from there. I don't know how in the world they can keep track of so many books.
Look up Strand bookstore or copy and paste the URL here: http://www.strandbooks.com/app/www/p/home/
Neal! This is gorgeous. That red snowcoach against the ice and sky just pops!
I've been there a couple of years ago....very nice captures of the area!
My Sky Watch Friday post
I was hoping to see something like this from you Neal.. you never let me down mate.. :O)
Thank you for helping to make Sky Watch so popular and special. I hope you enjoy your Sky Watch as much as I do.
Tom
Cold, but also cool and beautiful!
varying seasons
These are incredibly beautiful pictures. What a wonderful place.
Excellent sequence of photos, with colors expectaculares, congratulations.
Interesting photos! Brought back some memories. I had the thrilling pleasure of walking on the Athabasca Glacier during a visit to Alberta in the summer of 1991. It was hard for a "southern girl" such as myself to imagine how much snow must fall over time to make ice around 1,000 feet thick (I think that's what our tour guide said).
Amazing and beautiful!!!
These are gorgeous! They look so cold!
Pretty one for SWF! Which reminds me the quote... "we all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon".... Mine's up too hope you can drop by. Happy Weekend!
Sky, ice and snow make wonderful music together! Just gorgeous!
Sky Watch ~ fun people taking amazing photos, nicely done.
Got to be the coolest sywathc this wee. Fantsatic shots.
What a cool (literally, I guess) experience that must have been. Wonderful photos.
You sure picked a great place to shoot some photos - very pretty!
Happy Sky Watch Friday
Very great shots. We have many beauiful glacier here in Norway too. I haven't been hiking on on of them for many years. I think is time to do that again now after your nice pictures:)
Thanks!Petunia's SWF
Beautiful captures.
Happy Sky Watch!
Gary
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I visited there as a child.
Sas to think these may NOT always be there.
Nice sky.
Nina at Nature Remains
nice shoots
great pictures. I need to visit this place sometime
Wonderful shots. The second one is my favorite. Beautiful.
Great job on the snow! Most people get a bad tint to it.
Great captures for sky watch!
Have a nice weekend.
Oh this looks so cold! I am so happy winter is over ... I don't want to see any more ice or snow for a long time ... though I must say, these are great shots!!
My SkyWatch here
It good to call back here and see these again.. your Sky Watch seem to have gone well..
Impressive Skywatch! Very interesting! Cheers, Klaus
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