Takakkaw Falls

I'll quote from the interprative sign on the path to the falls...

When you say "Takakkaw", you are saying "it is magnificent", in Cree.  It is the right name for this 254 metre waterfall, one of the highest in Canada.

Daly Glacier, 350m from the brink, feeds the falls.  The glacier, in turn, is fed by the Waputik Icefield.  Snow falling on the icefield becomes moving ice in the glacier, which melts to become Takakkaw Falls.

In the summer, the rock face roars with the plnging mountain torrent.  But in autumn, the melt is slowed, and by winter, the raging falls narrows to a ribbon of ice awaiting  summer to set it free.

You can walk to the base of the falls where the milky melt form the glacier is palpably in the air.  Takakkaw Falls is in Yoho National Park.

Another view of the falls....