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Banff National Park Landscape Panorama of Frozen Peyto Lake in Canadian Rocky Mountains from Bow Summit, Alberta, Canada

In May the deep snows of the Canadian Rocky Mountains are starting to melt even at the higher elevations around Bow Summit along the Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. The famous turquoise waters of Peyto Lake are nevertheless still covered with ice and snow.