Awesome trip. Did it the opposite direction about a month after you. Cold nights but no bugs. Should mention parking at Food is small. We Got there around 7am and basically got the last spot. Views would be better North to South I admit. I was underwhelmed by paint pots at first but had the tint on my shoes for the rest of my time up there and came to appreciate the history of it.
Like your review. The only other minor detail I would add is PERMITS..... as lots of youtubes, like this one, make the trail very popular . When Parks Canada makes its permits available online (usually January), the entire Rockwall inventory is gone for the summer on the first day.......just a heads up to everyone out there. You can repeat this comment for Lake O Hara as well.
Fantastic overview! When looking into the various backpacking options in Canada, this came in @ #1. I would have loved to take on this trail this year, but those in my party were not willing to take on that challenge. Hopefully I get a chance to tackle it in the future.
The trail goes quite close to tumbling glacier, although we made a little detour by climbing up the glacial till and walking along the ridge. Once we got reasonably close to the glacier, we descended into the valley below and reconnected with the original trail. We went off piste a little bit, but it wasn’t much of a detour.
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Awesome trip. Did it the opposite direction about a month after you. Cold nights but no bugs. Should mention parking at Food is small. We Got there around 7am and basically got the last spot. Views would be better North to South I admit. I was underwhelmed by paint pots at first but had the tint on my shoes for the rest of my time up there and came to appreciate the history of it.
Like your review. The only other minor detail I would add is PERMITS..... as lots of youtubes, like this one, make the trail very popular . When Parks Canada makes its permits available online (usually January), the entire Rockwall inventory is gone for the summer on the first day.......just a heads up to everyone out there. You can repeat this comment for Lake O Hara as well.
Fantastic overview! When looking into the various backpacking options in Canada, this came in @ #1. I would have loved to take on this trail this year, but those in my party were not willing to take on that challenge. Hopefully I get a chance to tackle it in the future.
Fantastic overview! Thanks.
My pleasure - I hope it inspires!
I dropped off a bike at paint pots on the way to floe trailhead, then rode back to the car. An easy way to make the point to point into a loop
That’s smart. It was kind of humiliating and not particularly effective trying to hitchhike, to be honest…
Hi there, how long was the detour to tumbling glacier, back and forth?
The trail goes quite close to tumbling glacier, although we made a little detour by climbing up the glacial till and walking along the ridge. Once we got reasonably close to the glacier, we descended into the valley below and reconnected with the original trail. We went off piste a little bit, but it wasn’t much of a detour.
I still have my original GPX file, if you’re really curious.
Your background music is way too loud
Fair enough. I’m pretty new to serious video editing so I’ll try to tone down the audio for next time.