We were able to experience this waterfall by doing a very short walk along its extensive (and busy) walkways and bridges both skirting and spanning the gorge carved out by the force of the Athabasca River. Meanwhile, these walks afforded us views of the falls' brink from both sides as well as its front in addition to some of the interesting geology of the gorge.

We didn't do the walk that led further downstream deeper into the intriguing lower canyon (where Julie was struck by the color of the water down there when the watercourse reached a calm area), but we were able to check it out from the same bridge spanning the gorge underneath Hwy 93A.

The falls actually splits up (by a protruding rocky island in the middle of the falls) into two segments before rejoining near their bases. We were a little lucky to see a faint rainbow in the rising mist of one of the waterfall's two segments.