"One of the glacial rivers feeding a large lake straddling the Yukon-British Columbia border has dried up, hikers say, turning a normally fast-running watercourse into a muddy field strewn with icebergs.
"You see where the bergs had been dragged along the bottom and you could see the drag marks in the mud from all the various icebergs."
"The maps will have to be redrawn a bit because there's no more river there," he said.
Atlin residents weren't the only ones caught off guard by the shift. Icefield researchers working in the area this summer found normally dry walking trails to the Llewellyn Inlet flooded with chest-deep water.
photos at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/09/02/bc-glacier-river-icefield.html#
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