American army on the Saskatchewan

[coyoteman]

The americans planning a operation in Norway during WW11 bull dozed a road up the left side of the Saskatchewan river to the toe of the glacier, then bridgeing or filling in crevases a route to the columbia icefield.
There exotic experiments with vehicular access to the icefield astonished soldiers and mountaineers alike. They say the weasel a half track machine with skis was invented there.
One year out of the blue an american came to Brewster mgr and asked would we like to see some movies of the glacier from war days---converted to vcr sure enough machines and men everywhere on the glacier, it was a real eye opener, park be damn this was war.