The drive out to Maligne Lake is just as beautiful as the drive up the Icefields Parkway. But here, you will also find something that perplexed the area’s early residents: a disappearing lake. Medicine Lake only exists during the summer months, when glaciers melt, sending water into the valley. By September (the time of my visit), lake levels are falling, and later in autumn, the entire lake bed will be exposed — except for one ribbon of water. That small stream is what baffled the Indians — it runs through a valley that appears to have no outlet. The water […]