Watercolour and crayon
©2016 Charlene Brown
I think that my first guess
would have been that this icefield was in Switzerland. But the name reveals its
location in Yukon, part of the bi-national Kluane-Wrangell-St. Elias-Tatshenshini-Alsek park system stretching from Glacier
Bay in Alaska into the highest mountains in Canada.
This spectacular icefield
is relatively unfamiliar because this view point is almost inaccessible (at least when compared to glaciers in
Switzerland that you can get to on a train) despite being less than twenty
kilometres from the Alaska Highway!
I should probably mention that the chartreuse arctic
poppies I’ve added may not actually grow in Yukon. They are native to the northermost parts of Scandinavia and the only place in Canada I’ve ever seen them is
Pangnirtung in Nunavut.
