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Photographs - Mount Robson, Canada
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Mount Robson, Canada
August 2007
In August of 2007, Kristen and I did a 5-day backpack around Mount Robson to Berg Lake and it is the most spectacular backpack trip I’ve done in Canada. We took two days to leisurely travel the 22km to the Berg Lake campground, then spent another two days doing day hikes in the area and finished off by hiking all the way back to the trailhead on the last day. I’d recommend doing this, but book an extra day at Berg Lake in case you get a day or two of bad weather.
For more information, see the BC parks website:
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/mtrobson.html
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Mount Robson is the tallest peak in the Canadian Rockies at 3954m. It is nearly 1000 meters higher than all of the surrounding peaks and creates a wall that stops clouds on their eastward march towards Alberta. These clouds then drop most of their moisture creating a rainforest-like environment in many places around the mountain. Giant Cedars and Western Hemlock are two of the huge trees that can be found towering out of the moss-covered soil along the trail. The wet cool fresh smell of the soil is something you usually only get in temperate coastal rainforest.
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