Bow Glacier

Bow Glacier, in Banff National Park in Alberta, lies northwest of Lake Louise and is a prominent feature of the Continental Divide visible from the Icefields Parkway. An outflow of the Wapta Icefield, it feeds Bow Lake and then the Bow River with meltwater. Over much longer timescales, it helped carve the Bow Valley before retreating after the last glacial maximum. Since the end of the Little Ice Age around 1850, the glacier has steadily shrunk. By 1953 it had retreated about 1,100 meters, and continued retreat has formed a new lake at its terminal moraine while increased erosion has carried more sediment into Bow Lake, creating a small delta.

Alberta · Canada