Location Taken: Along the Trans-Canada Highway, Eastern British Columbia
Time Taken: June 2010
There’s a stretch of the Canadian section of the Rocky Mountains that’s high enough to have a permanent ice sheet of noticeable size.
This isn’t part of it. But it’s in the same general area and altitude.
Creating ice sheets (which are basically really large glaciers) is pretty simple. Just have more snow fall in an area than melts during the year. The pressure of the snow itself will do the rest of the job.
Where ice sheets differ from glaciers is that ice sheets tend to spill out of their enclosures in multiple directions. The pressure is enough to keep the ice moving downhill, forming rivers of ice (glaciers). A large number of the world’s major glaciers start as part of an ice sheet.
This mountain definitely has glaciers on it. It might even come close to an ice sheet if the ice extends far back enough. But most likely it’s just some nice glaciers.
