Backpacking Guides and Trips in Canada
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Trips
3 day solo trip on the Western Uplands Trail in Algonquin Park. Not a particularly scenic trail, but a nice hike though western Algonquin Park. Moderately strenuous with many
ups and downs but no beautiful vistas from mountain tops to behold...
many scenic lakes and some good campsites to check out, however. I went around the west side of Maggie Lake to get a bit of extra mileage on the third day. ...
Elk Lakes can be accessed from either the Alberta side as an easy backpacking trip or the British Columbia side as a nice day hike. This track is from the Alberta side. The trail starts on utilities service road and follows the power line cut near the beginning. After a couple kilometers the trail leaves the overhead powerlines but remains a nice wide, easy trail through the forest. After crossing the border into...
Algonquin Park - Highland Backpacking Trail, Second Loop
Algonquin Park East, Ontario, Canada
Backpacking | 20 miles
Backpacking | 20 miles
The Highland Backpacking trail is off of Highway 60, right
beside Mew Lake.
It is a medium length trail, good for a couple days worth of
hiking. It is organized in two loops,
which gives you three options: you can do loop one around Provoking Lake,
loop two by itself or loops one and two together. We chose to do loop 2 by itself. Loop 1 has
blue blazes, loop 2 has yellow. Loop two
passes by Head and...
I had never been to Frontenac Park before, but wanted to check it out
so I planned a 4 day backpacking trip to the park in mid October. The park is certainly worthwhile visiting,
the backpacking is really decent (see my Frontenac Park
writeup here). The weather was so-so, seasonally warm enough
for this time of year, it can be snowing sometimes, but was well warmer than
that. Unfortunately the clouds weren’t
cooperating with me all that much...
Day 1Day 1 started off in Haines, AK. We had flown in the night before and stayed at the small motel near the guide office in order to get organized before setting out. The town is a really interesting place; only 1,800 residents who tend to grow long beards. Today, a large part of the Haines economy revolves around the cruise ships that come into town during the summer months.The first morning...
Killarney: LaCloche Silhouette + Silver Peak in 3 days
Killarney, Ontario, Canada
Backpacking | 49 miles
Backpacking | 49 miles
A 3-day hike of the LaCloche trail, including Silver Peak by a group of 4 people. GPS reception was not the best in the wooded areas; a full report is below.Planning/GearBase pack weight ~8kg (LIGHT), total pack weight at start 11-12kgShelter: MEC Apollo 3kg (750g/person), a good compromise between comfort and weight.Cooking: MSR Pocket Rocket, 2 cans of fuel, one 1.5L MSR titanium pot.Food: Dehydrated (freeze-dried packs and self-dried), dry snacks -...
32 km in 2 days..Camping at Oak lake... Reaching Oak Lake was hard... Trail was a bit boring... We didnt see animals.... It was a great workout
The first of what hopefully will become an annual trip for me and some friends. This year we ended up in Algonquin Park to conquer the Highland Backpacking trail. With the departure day approaching the weather wasn't looking good and so there were some last minute wet weather additions to the already large pack of goods that were coming on the trip.Day 1:Fresh as daisies we started on our epic journey across the...
Mount Northover Ridge is a hike I've been wanting to do for a while, one more checked off my list! This trip was spectacular and I highly recommend it. It is definitely one of the best (or tied with other 'best') trips I've done!August 20: Peter and I set out from the Upper Kananaskis Lake Parking Lot to our first day’s final destination of Aster Lake backcountry campground. Just as we hit...
Well, we finally made it to the top of Vancouver Island. This was our second attempt, having been forced to retreat by weather last year. We took our lessons well, though, as we had a 5 day window to do the trip (2 in, a summit day, and 2 out) with no extra time to wait out weather. This year we had 9 days blocked out on the calendar. We were going...
Algonquin Highland Backpacking Trail one naight Backpacking.around provokin Lake. about 19Km trail.
Aster Lake
Peter Lougheed Provincial Park - Kananaskis Country, Alberta, Canada
Backpacking | 15.1 miles
Backpacking | 15.1 miles
Aster Lake is a high alpine lake located in a remote section of Kananaskis Country located in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. Our original plan was to spend one night at the Aster Lake campground and then push on over the Northover Ridge the following day. Unfortunately Mother Nature had different plans for us and despite being tempted to attempt the ridge anyway, our self-preservation gene kicked in and we decided to play...
Straightforward back-country hike from the Willmore entrance at the Rock Lake campground to Snake Indian Falls. Camped at Willow Creek Campground on the way.
A quick weekend trip since I had the time, but it was cut short due to bad weather that I didn't feel like sitting out without a fire. Nice area and the camping was bug free, but without a fire to keep me a little warmer and a lot less damp, I went home early.
Algonquin - Eastern Pines Backpacking Trail
Squirrel Depot, Ontario, Canada
Backpacking | 12.0 miles
Backpacking | 12.0 miles
This is called a backpacking trail, and indeed it can be
used for that, but it is a rather short trail.
I did most of this backpacking trail as a day hike – a long enough
one, about 19.5km. I didn’t really do
all of the trail and omitted the north side of Johnston Lake,
on account of the late-ish start and the vicious mosquitoes in late June.
It starts at Achray on the lesser used East Side/Barron
canyon...
