Another question about Banff to Jasper
Hi all. I've gone back through the posts in this forum for a year gleening all the information I can. I have a 12 page word document with the advice I've cut and pasted, mostly from your answers t...
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fran, a couple of thoughts -- do you have solar? or portable solar? That can extend the time that you can dry camp, by quite a lot. Even more if you use the furnace very sparingly and just dress very warmly. (I forget what time of year you are going.)
With a 30 foot rig, you may be limited to the Icefields parking lot, which is not lovely. But it is very well located. And I think Yoho can take a big rig -- they have a big open sunny meadow with big campsites. Check it out on Google Earth.
My second question -- how far do you ordinarily hike each day? If you can do 8 miles with 2000 feet of elevation gain, there is so much to do -- you just can't go wrong. The Iceline trail in Yoho, the Wilcox area near the Icefields, the Plain of the Six Glaciers at Lake Louise, even Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. World class hiking, everywhere you look.
Better yet, the hikes are not really at high elevation -- you sometimes get up to 7000 feet, but this is not Colorado, where the trailheads are at 10,000 feet. So there is more oxygen than we normally encounter on a mountain hike, which made hiking in Canada a lot easier than in the Sierras, for example.
With a 30 foot rig, you may be limited to the Icefields parking lot, which is not lovely. But it is very well located. And I think Yoho can take a big rig -- they have a big open sunny meadow with big campsites. Check it out on Google Earth.
My second question -- how far do you ordinarily hike each day? If you can do 8 miles with 2000 feet of elevation gain, there is so much to do -- you just can't go wrong. The Iceline trail in Yoho, the Wilcox area near the Icefields, the Plain of the Six Glaciers at Lake Louise, even Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. World class hiking, everywhere you look.
Better yet, the hikes are not really at high elevation -- you sometimes get up to 7000 feet, but this is not Colorado, where the trailheads are at 10,000 feet. So there is more oxygen than we normally encounter on a mountain hike, which made hiking in Canada a lot easier than in the Sierras, for example.
