"Glaciers recede a couple of meters every year, if you come here in 150 years, you’ll be having a boat trip instead of an Ice Explorer trip" - The guide at the Columbia Ice Fields is letting us know about some facts while driving us up the glacier in some kind of bus that seams to have came out of a science fiction movie...

Most of the time we take what we see for granted, but it’s a fact that the world is changing and what we saw during the trip will no longer be there if we ever go back...

I’m back to my daily life now, and as everybody may figure out my posts are coming out a little too late... Everything went too fast during the trip in such a way that each night I would fall asleep without the strength to write at the same rate we where fed with new experiences...

I left every place wishing to come back for more and less... More time, experiences, light, weather, water on waterfalls, snow... Less tourists...

As we travel south from Jasper to Banff there’s a notorious increase in the number of tourists, wanting to have less tourists feels quite contradictory as I’m a tourist myself and I have no more rights to go to those places than all the others... Still I’d like to see Lake Louise without the "Fairmont Chateau" and all the man made infrastructures built around it... Although in a different league, this place left me with the same sensation of a "dominated piece of nature" as the Niagara Falls did...

Amazingly, Yoho National Park is just 25 km west of Lake Louise and although the tourist buses still get there, there’s some sensation of isolation in the air that puts this place in the role of those that I can go back to over and over again...

Heck... What am I going in the office!..