(the snow at the Roger's Pass Visitor Centre in Revelstoke, BC - that's a lot of snow!)
(an avalanche tunnel covered by an avalanche - guess its a good thing the tunnel is there!)
(another view of the avalanche tunnel covered by an avalanche - this may actually be a completely different tunnel but I can't remember...)
(Avalanche Area - Do Not Stop! Oh...except to put chains on your tires...)
(over turned tractor trailer on the side of the highway)
(don't feed the mountain goats! - at the top of Sulpher Mountain in Banff)
(an overpass for wildlife to walk across the road)
(Did I mention we were in avalanche country?)
(just in case you are a stupid tourist - ALL bears are dangerous)
(a card left in our hotel room in Jasper...if you click on it to blow it up, you'll see that we were kindly asked to keep the door to our room shut so wildlife won't come in...)
(a small avalanche right next to some ski tracks - apparently people in Canada love heli-skiing, which involves a helicopter dropping them off at the top of a mountain and then skiing down the mountain - not in an actual ski resort. Heli-skiing comes with warnings about avalanches - which should probably be taken seriously as this picture shows...)
(Lake Louise - note the people walking across the thin ice)
(In case there was any doubt...rescues take time...so please don't fall into a crack on the glacier [you may need to blow this picture up too])
(crevass warning - don't fall into the glacier!)
(caribou crossing)
(for some reason I can't get this picture to upload in the right direction...but just in case you weren't aware of this - icy rocks can be slippery and parents should hold their children's hand.)
(an ice climber at Maligne Canyon. I think ice climbing is crazy to begin with, but what this picture doesn't show is that this is the day it started to warm up. As this guy is climbing, you can hear water running down behind the ice and small pieces of ice across the whole canyon were melting and falling off. So...who wants to climb up a melting waterfall? With no saftey rope?)
(our poor car at the end of the trip)
(another caribou crossing sign on the highway)
(watch out for caribou, bears and wolves crossing the road)
(I just thought the cartoon thief on this sign was funny)
(just in case the other signs didn't teach you a lesson, please don't approach the glacier - you may fall into it and die before someone can rescue you.)
I'll be creating a google photo album of all of our pictures within the next few days so I'll post a link to that when I have it.
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