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Hikes in the Canadian Rockies?

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PostedJan 16, 2015 at 8:44 am

Hey folks,

Hoping someone on here can help me out! I live in Ontario but looking to do a backpacking trip in the Canadian rockies this summer. Since I'm not local, thought I might as well give this a try. I'm doing my own online research, but I always seem to get the best tips from other hikers – and also, there's only so much online.

What I'm looking for is a route in one or more of the parks in Alberta/B.C.- banff, yoho, jasper, kootenay, etc. 100-160k. Ideally, the route would be as wild, seldom traveled and unmaintained as possible without being off trail. The higher the better, lots of mountain passes would be awesome. My favourite hiking is high, rugged, alpine terrain. Last year I did 100k through the sawback range from Banff to Lake Louise.

Any tips would be awesome!!

Alex.

Jerry Adams BPL Member
PostedJan 16, 2015 at 8:56 am

I did a backpacking trip in Jasper many years ago. We were surrounded by a herd of Caribou at one point. We saw Aurora Borealis one night. Very wild and unpopulated.

I've been to Banff a few times. Very touristy, although I'm sure if you were backpacking away from trailhead it would get uncrowded, but Jasper is wilder.

PostedJan 16, 2015 at 9:11 am

Thanks jerry, yes Banff itself is very touristy. Once I was out in the backcountry though, I barely saw anyone. I saw three or four other pairs of guys the entire eight days, all on the first half of the trip. After that, the last four days I didn't see anyone. Thanks for the tip about Jasper being wilder though- that definitely has me leaning more towards there.

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