TAKAKKAW FALLS

When you say “Takakkaw”, you are saying “It is Magnificent”,  in Cree.  It is the right name for the 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 Icefields.  Snow falling not the ice field becomes moving ice in the glacier, which melts to become Takakkaw Falls.

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