Medicine Lake, Alberta

(Reader Contribution to 10 Most Unique Lakes of our World)


Summer visitors assume that Medicine is a normal mountain lake, but it isn't.

During the summer, glacier melt waters flood the lake, sometimes overflowing it. In fall and winter the lake disappears, becoming a mudflat with scattered pools of water connected by a stream. But there is no visible channel draining the lake ? so where then does the water go?

The answer is, "out the bottom", like a bathtub without a plug.


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