Day 1
Lets get going, going. Soon to be gone.
Looking to continue and better explore this great Canada of ours, in August Kate and I headed to Wells Gray Provincial Park, British Columbia for some prearranged Hut to Hut hiking. With experiencing similar in Austria and more recently in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, here we are scheduled to spend the next seven days exploring this big little gem of a park.
We'll meet our hiking partners in Clearwater and head out. There's lots to what lays ahead but lets see what our tour operators have in store for us today and beyond.
Seven days of spectacular alpine walking with comfortable cabins to stay in! The trek begins in the Trophy Mountains in the southern part of the 1.5 million acre Wells Gray Park and travels north crossing the Valley of the Lakes, then over Eagle Pass, down into the Remote Moul Valley and then over Table Mountain and Cariboo Meadows. On the sixth day of this hike you will climb Battle Mountain look back with wonder at the incredible country you have crossed.
The waivers fine print.
"All huts have a two drink minimum"
What the .............?????????
We'll have lots of time for introductions. Here on route to the trail head we get some early instruction form our guide, Christine.
Instruction that its to late to turn back now.
On top of our personal possessions for the week, we shared in caring some provisions to add what we will find to be amble supplies already laid up in the huts.
Here we meet tour owner and local trekking pioneer Ian and his daughter on they way down from our destination hut.
I'd be smiling to if I was headin' down.
Thats enough looking down. Now up, up, and a pray to our first hut.
Seven days of spectacular alpine walking with comfortable cabins to stay in! The trek begins in the Trophy Mountains in the southern part of the 1.5 million acre Wells Gray Park and travels north crossing the Valley of the Lakes, then over Eagle Pass, down into the Remote Moul Valley and then over Table Mountain and Cariboo Meadows. On the sixth day of this hike you will climb Battle Mountain look back with wonder at the incredible country you have crossed.
"All huts have a two drink minimum"
What the .............?????????
Instruction that its to late to turn back now.
Lets see if the day pans out as advertised:
Day 1:
We pick you up at your accommodation in Clearwater, B.C., or meet at our office, and drive one hour up a dirt road to the trailhead at 5300 ft. (1630m). The trail goes up through mature forest and into lush meadows of alpine flowers. It is pure alpine from here to the Trophy Mountain Chalet which sits at 7000 ft (2153m). The view from the Chalet is superb, and the area has great hiking with small peaks, lakes, and flower meadows everywhere. The hike from the road takes about two and a half hours and we gain 1700 ft. (523m) over 4 km. After lunch you will take a short day hike to start and explore the Trophy Mountains.
Dang me, dang me
They oughta take a rope and hang me
High from the highest tree
Woman would you wait for me?
I'd be smiling to if I was headin' down.
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