Canadian vistas bleak and wondrous (travelling the Icefields Parkway)

August 21, 2004
Source: New York Times
Original story - link verified on August 21, 2004

Without debating the relative merits of the Alps and the Canadian Rockies, 93 North, better known as the Icefields Parkway, is undeniably a “wondertrail.” Stretching from Lake Louise to Jasper, its 143-mile length affords constantly changing views of more than 600 glaciers, six icefields and a cornucopia of mountains.

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