(July 31, 2016 at 11:04 am)Whateverist Wrote:(July 31, 2016 at 10:48 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: It's pretty unreal up here in the great polite north. As soon as you cross the border everything becomes bigger and grander and all the water turns super blue, the people become really nice and the beer all becomes expensive. It's also kind of cold, even in the middle of the summer....people threatening to move to Canada every election, two words: Canadian Winter.
This was shot yesterday, in literally the middle of summer.
I can believe it. I remember driving through Lassan NP one summer on roads where the snow and ice on either side of the road must have been twenty feet high. Have you driven between Banff and Jasper yet? Ages since I was there but there was a road stop with signs to show how far the glacier extended at various points in history. I suspect you can't see it from there any more.
No, not yet. Although I'm staying in Canmore, which is right next to Banff. Maybe I'll go check it out just to see and take pictures and you can compare just to your memory of it. It's crazy to see all the glaciers up here, considering that most of the ones in the United States have disappeared. It's also been an insane weather year, according to the locals.