Hoven Hike

Today we got up to a bit of sprinkling rain and when I looked it said rain all day. Then I looked again to check the radar during breakfast and it said rain this morning and evening, cloudy this afternoon. Then after breakfast it was just cloudy all day…and the radar kept getting to be less and less rain coming towards us so we headed out and it was a gorgeous day!! We got so lucky! While hiking we kept watching big rain clouds roll through right next to us, but they didn’t hit us which was awesome! If we were hiking in any of the other mountains it would have been a wet at points day, but instead we had lots of sun!

We headed off from the car to the Hoven trailhead which was about a 2km road walk. We thought about parking at the trailhead, but it was $10/hour and you had to pay for 4 hours and that is more than camping somewhere with facilities and way more than parking downtown anywhere we have been…plus it wasn’t a long hike so we decided to just walk over. I was glad we did as we found some fun things! The best will be in the next post, a small gabbro beach, but we also saw lots of fun birds! There were a bunch of Willow Ptarmigan which make such a funny sound! You should look it up as I don’t have a video of it, but it was so silly! They were all over the place so we had fun watching them.

Then it was off for our hike. This was a much easier one than the others, not as high either (only 368 meters). It started off a bit of a muddy mess, or a boggy mess as it was a lot standing water and mud, but not too bad. The hike itself was gorgeous! All the fall colors were beautiful! They do not show up as well in the photos, but it was so nice! Lots of red and yellow and oranges. And for the most part it wasn’t that steep with lots of viewpoints to stop and spy on.

Of course the views from the top were amazing! So so nice! The last bit was freezing as the wind picked up so once we got up there I put on all my layers and was so happy we brought our hot tea with us to drink as we sat and enjoyed the views!

Then we headed down and startled a bunch of super cute Snow Bunting! We saw all the fun birds today! On the way down we had lunch at a viewpoint along the way. Going down always seems to be easier which is surprising as it always seems like it will be way worse as we are going up than it is. Really a nice hike and so odd that Hoven is out by itself with no other mountains or anything really nearby. But then you can see forever!Leer más