Just after I crossed into Jasper National Park at Sunwapta Pass, I was treated to one of the most spectacular scenes in the Canadian Rockies: Athabasca Glacier, an icy tongue sticking out from the massive Columbia Icefield. I was also faced with a dilemma: how cheap am I? Normally, I like to travel as inexpensively as possible — and this trip to Canada had already stretched my thrifty nature to the limit. Here at the Athabasca Glacier, you can do something that can’t be done anywhere else on earth: you can ride on a specially-equipped bus out to the middle […]