BCR #56: Walking the Athabasca Glacier -- or -- slip sliding away.

The Athabasca Glacier is one of the six principal 'toes' of the Columbia Icefield, in the Canadian Rockies. The Athabasca is 900 ft. thick in places. But – this glacier has been shrinking at a rate of about 16 feet per year, and, in the past 125 years, has receded almost a mile -- losing over half of its volume. The Ok Glacier in Iceland "died" recently. So -- book your tickets now for Jasper National Park in Western Canada -- you have about 100 years hike an actual glacier.

Becky has always wanted to walk on a glacier. I hiked a Swiss glacier many years ago – and so she had to catch up. For this Bar Crawl Radio episode, we found a glacier near the Upper West Side in Alberta, Canada, in the Columbia Ice-field. Early in the day, we walked on the Athabasca Glacier.  And then drove 100 Km north to the Jasper Park Lodge to talk with glacier guide Peter Lemieux. Check out this episode -- it is the closest you're going to get to a glacier today.

We also spoke with Jasper Park Lodge manager, Gregg Lown, about the interesting history of this log cabin lodge with its many cabins surrounding a pristine glacial lake.

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