Eye-Boggling Scenery at Jasper National Park

Edith Cavell was a British nurse who saved a lot of lives during WWI and helped Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium. For her heroics, she was arrested and executed in 1915. In 1916, Mt. Fizthugh in Jasper National Park was renamed Mt. Edith Cavell.  

Mt. Edith Cavell is the most prominent peak in the Alberta province.   

The long and windy road up to the trailhead is well worth the effort as the peak stands in the background of a beautiful glacial lake:

Complete with floating ice:

And a glacier melting faster than it is supposed to:

And, sediment-induced artistry:

All in all, Mt. E-C gave us one of several eye-boggling experiences in Jasper National Park.  It's the kind of scenery that makes me really glad that digital cameras have taken the place of analog ones... so that I can snap away without driving myself into bankruptcy (does anyone remember how much film cost?)