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COLUMBIA ICEFIELDS PARKWAY

“DASHBOARD VIEWS ARE TRULY EPIC, SO YOU’D BE FORGIVEN FOR DETOURING NO FURTHER THAN THE ROADSIDE SHOULDER.”

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As our car idled at the junction of Highways 16 and 93, I measured my racing heartbeat against the metronome of the ticking indicator. Few traffic stops elicit such excitement, but we were about to turn onto the Columbia Icefields Parkway – regarded as one of the most scenic alpine drives in the world, bookended with mountain towns adept at catering to visitors’ wild tastes.

Connecting Jasper in the north to Banff and Lake Louise in the south, the 230km highway passes through Jasper and

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