Icefields Parkway

Two of the prominent glaciers along the way

JASPER, AB, CANADA - - Our trip up to Jasper, a nearly 150-mile jaunt, is, for us, a trip on memory road.  Or as it is better known, The Icefields Parkway.  Visualize the Canadian Rockies on either side of the road with an abundance of glaciers.  Our first time up IP was in 2002.  15 years, global warming, sometimes inconsistent snowfall (think 12-feet instead of 20)  have conspired to shrink the "ice fields."
     We still marvel at the size and number of glaciers from our first trip,  but sadly realize that time and Mother Nature are moving on.  A case in point:  Just over 100 years ago Glacier National Park counted 150 glaciers as its namesake.  Today there are but 25 and they are shrinking fast.