Tourist attraction
Bow Glacier Falls
Horsetail waterfall dropping over five hundred feet, fed by meltwater from a receding valley glacier.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Bow Glacier Falls, near Banff on the Icefields Parkway, follows Jimmy Simpson, the young outfitter who camped by Bow Lake in eighteen ninety-eight and made a promise that grew into the Num-Ti-Jah Lodge. Along the way it traces the Ice Age glacier still hanging above the valley, and what the trail's gorge and outwash plain reveal about thousands of years of retreat. Best heard partway up, once the lake is behind you and the gorge lies ahead.
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