#icefields

[mreinberg]

Glacier. Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV.

[northameicanblog]

Mount Athabasca, Alberta, Canada: Mount Athabasca is in the Columbia Icefield of Jasper National Park in Canada. The mountain was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie, who made the first ascent on August 18 of that year. Athabasca is the Cree language name for "where there are reeds", which originally referred to Lake Athabasca. Wikipedia

[vintagecamping]

A couple snowcoaches on the Columbia Icefield.

Alberta

1963

[eopederson]

Melt channel, Columbia Icefield, Jasper National Park, Alberta - Canal de fonte, champ de glace Columbia, parc national Jasper, Alberta, 2006.

[thorsenmark]

Happy Outdoors Holiday in Jasper National Park by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at the Stutfield Glacier Viewpoint along the Icefields Parkway with a view looking to the south. This is in Jasper National Park.

[dopescissorscashwagon]

Icefields Parkway, Banff National Park, AB, Canada

📸 by @danschyk

[daily-public-domain]

Day 299: Icefield

this image was so big, I had to trim it down

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–This image is part of the public domain*, meaning you can do anything you want with it! (you could even sell it as a shirt, poster or whatever, no need to credit it!)–

[massimolanzi]

driving alberta

the Icefields Parkway

[alanjamesart]

bow lake

[mreinberg]

Glacier Ice. Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV.

[northameicanblog]

Columbia Icefield Skywalk, Jasper National Park, Canada: The largest Cantilevered platform, the Glacier Skywalk is situated above a deep canyon midway between Jasper and Banff National Parks. The outer edge of the platform is approximately 60 meters high vertically with a total elevation drop of 280 meters to the river at the bottom of the valley... Jasper National Park, in Alberta, Canada, is the largest national park within Alberta's Rocky Mountains, spanning 11,000 km2. Wikipedia

[thingsdavidlikes]

Sekong lake by Wim van de Meerendonk, back home!

[eopederson]

Glacial retreat, Columbia Icefield, Jasper National Park - Recul des glaciers, champ de glace Columbia, parc national Jasper, Alberta, 2006.

Would like a chance to see what the situation is now, almost 20 years later. Under the senile felon efforts slowing climate change are drawing to halt, indeed even being reversed. The retreat of glaciers, ice fields in this case, is almost inevitable far beyond what has already happened. The edge of the ice field, in 2006 close to the parking area but several meters above its 1992 limit, is apt now to be many meters above its 2006 limit. Over that time, the ice field itself is likely to have diminished by many hectares.

[lyssahumana]

[thorsenmark]

Mountain Glory as a View Beyond Peyto Lake (Banff National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the north-northwest while taking in views across this glacier valley with Peyto Lake to my front and then more distant ridges and peaks with North Waputik Mountains, Murchison Group, and the Cline Range. This is at the Peyto Lake Overlook along the Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park.

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Smithsonian Magazine:

The Juneau Icefield, which extends for some 1,500 square miles from northwest British Columbia, Canada, into southeast Alaska, is composed of more than 1,000 glaciers, and it has been for millennia. But now, perhaps more than ever, the landscape’s longevity is in question.

A new study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications highlights the icefield’s unprecedented and accelerating melting. Its snow-covered area is shrinking 4.6 times faster than it was prior to the 1980s, researchers say—and between 2010 and 2020, it lost roughly 1.4 cubic miles of ice per year. Now, meltwater is flowing from the icefield at 50,000 gallons per second, reports Seth Borenstein of theAssociated Press(AP).

Amid human-caused climate change, driven largely by carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels, the Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than anywhere else in the world. Alaska itself has seen the average temperature increase 2.6 degrees Fahrenheit since 1980.

“If we reduce carbon, then we have more hope of retaining these wonderful ice masses,” Bethan Davies, a glaciologist at Newcastle University and lead author of the study, tells theNew York Times’Raymond Zhong. “The more carbon we put in, the more we risk irreversible, complete removal of them.”