We woke to our truck covered in snow at Stretton in Alberta, not far from the Alberta Badlands!

We walked out onto the Athabasca Glacier which was 300 meters (1000ft) to the deepest point, a kilometer wide (.6 of a mile) x 6 kilometers long (3.7miles);  a small glacier which makes up part of the 201 kilometer (125 sq miles) of the Columbia Icefield, which is an area greater than the city of Vancouver, B.C.