Hiking in the Snow

It's August and the BC Day long weekend, so you know what that means. Time to visit the glaciers! Rebekah and I went with Brad and Gulcan to Strathcona Park to hike the Elk River Trail (click that link, its cool and turn on satellite view if it's not on) To see the hike even cooler, click here and open it in Google Earth, then you may have to double-click "Elk River Trail" in the pane at the left, then lower the viewing angle so it's not a bird's eye view so you can see the mountains.

We probably hiked about 25km, which was nice and enjoyable. The first day we hiked about 8.5km with all of our stuff up to the 2nd campsite:

That hike had us walk by a really cool ice tunnel:

Then the second day we did a day hike from the campsite up to Landslide Lake:

The trail continued in on an unkept path that was dangerous at times, but worth it when we got to Iceberg Lake, surrounded by glaciers, tall cliffs and almost frozen over:

Glaciers are cold:

On the third day, we hiked back from our campsite and drove home. The whole trip was a lot of fun. Dehydrated food tastes pretty good these days.

If you'd like to see more awesome scenery including some pretty cool waterfalls, check out the rest of the photos then go hike it yourself. It's even better in real life. And the amazing part is, it's all on our Pacific island!