Hiking In Mount Robson Park
Starting 2km from the park visitor centre, the Berg Lake Trail (22km one-way; 795m ascent) is perhaps the most popular short backpacking trip in the Rockies, and the only trail that gets anywhere near Mount Robson. You can do the first third or so as a comfortable and highly rewarding day-walk, passing through forest to lovely glacier-fed Kinney Lake (6.7km; campsite at the lake's northeast corner). Many rank this among the Rockies best day-hikes and it's particularly good for naturalists. Trek the whole thing, however, and you traverse the stupendous Valley of a Thousand Waterfalls - the most notable being sixty-metre Emperor Falls (14.3km; campsites 500m north and 2km south) - and eventually enjoy the phenomenal area around Berg Lake itself (17.4km to its nearest, western shore). Mount Robson rises an almost sheer 2400m from the lakeshore, its huge cliffs cradling two creaking rivers of ice, Mist Glacier and Berg Glacier - the latter, one of the Rockies' few "living" or advancing glaciers, is 1800m long by 800m wide and the source of the great icebergs that give the lake its name. Beyond the lake you can pursue the trail 2km further to Robson Pass (21.9km; 1652m a1scent; campsite) and another 1km to Adolphus Lake in Jasper National Park. The most popular campsites are the Berg Lake (19.6km) and Rearguard (20.1km) campsites on Berg Lake itself; but if you've got a Jasper backcountry permit you could press on to Adolphus where there's a less-frequented site with more in the way of solitude. Once you're camped at Berg Lake, a popular day-trip is to Toboggan Falls, which starts from the southerly Berg Lake campsite and climbs the northeast (left) side of Toboggan Creek past a series of cascades and meadows to eventual views over the lake's entire hinterland. The trail peters out after 2km, but you can easily walk on and upward through open meadows for still better views. The second trail in the immediate vicinity is Robson Glacier (2km), a level walk that peels off south from the main trail 1km west of Robson Pass near the park ranger's cabin. It runs across an outwash plain to culminate in a small lake at the foot of the glacier; a rougher track then follows the lateral moraine on the glacier's east side, branching east after 3km to follow a small stream to the summit of Snowbird Pass (9km total from the ranger's cabin). Two more hikes start from Yellowhead Lake, at the other (eastern) end of the park. To get to the trailhead for Yellowhead Mountain (4.5km one-way; 715m ascent), follow Hwy 16 9km down from the pass and then take a gravel road 1km on an isthmus across the lake. After a steep two-hour climb through forest, the trail levels out in open country at 1830m, offering sweeping views of the Yellowhead Pass area. The Mount Fitzwilliam Trail (13km one-way; 945m ascent), which leaves Hwy 16 about 1km east of the Yellowhead Mountain Trail (but on the other side of the highway), is a more demanding walk, especially over its last half, but if you don't want to backpack to the endpoint - a truly spectacular basin of lakes and peaks - you could easily walk through the forest to the campsite at Rockingham Creek (6km).
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