Snaring River

Thursday 11th and Friday 12th. I am going to have to start putting the days because not finding reliable wifi to download the footprints very often. Thursday morning after driving down from our high park up spot and finding the supermarket in Valemount doesn't open until midday we left town heading north. Stopped at Rearguard Falls, again an almighty powerful falls that defeats the salmon on their 1200km migration up river, from the pacific ocean Then we thought we would do an easy 1,7 km one way walk to Little Lost Lake, just to have an easy day after yesterday's big climb to Carson's Peak. It was fairly easy and a pleasant lake, so we carried on and walked around it also. On the way back to the van there was a track signposted as waterfall going of it. BUT When I'm I going to learn - it was only 1 km walk but a steep 230 m elevation gain (tough for me on yesterday's tired legs) and then not a very exciting waterfall after all that. We then carry on to Mt Robson Provincial Park (at 3954m this is the highest mountain in the Canadian Rockies). We decided to stay at the campground there so we could do the Overlander lookout trail in the morning (plus we finally had time and energy for Doug to get his haircut). So today (Friday) we headed up to the lookout 3.3 km, 335 m elevation gain. It was a steady climb, but not really a better view of the mountain than what you got at the visitors center. It was then onwards towards Jasper. Stopped at Moose lake for some lunch. There was a park ranger there with a monocular trained over the other side of the lake. A grizzly had taken down a moose 3 days ago and took it down to the lake's edge to bury in the sand to hide the scent from other bears, and had stayed guard since, so that was pretty cool to watch him. Then the water tempted us in for a swim, initially cold but soon became refreshing. A lovely young Toronto couple Victoria and Robert who are bikepacking from Calgary to Vancouver stopped for a swim, and we ended up spending quite a while talking to them and exchanging addresses. We eventually got lunch, then carried on to Jasper - crossing into Alberta for the first time. Had a quick look around the town, and since all the campsites around Jasper - 1376 sites were full drove north 17 km to the overflow campground.Read more