We are allowed to leave the bus and scamper about on the ice for about 20 minutes, during which Jeane fills up our water bottle with snowmelt water. (The rock flour in glacial melt doesn't agree with digestive systems unaccustomed to rocks.) Our driver advises us that drinking it will make us 10 years younger.

2010summervacationcanadacanadian rockiesjasper national parkcolumbia icefieldglaciericeathabasca glacierjeane