11/09: Hiking We Will Go ....
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
This is day 5 with limited internet access and it makes me realize how dependent we’ve become on the internet. Wondering what the weather forecast is, just look it up ---- ooops no internet at the trailer. Want to check the credit card statement ---- ooops no internet at the trailer. Wondering what’s going on in the world, read about it on the internet --- ooops no internet at the trailer. Writing my blog is also more difficult as I can’t just look up information. We’re enjoying being in this semi-remote area but part of us is looking forward to going home and having good internet access.
We’re paying for the great weather we had yesterday with a cloudy, bit of fog and chance of rain kind of day. The weather is OK to hike in so we put on the hiking boots, grabbed the back pack and rain jackets and headed out. First stop is the Tracey Lake Trail --- yep it has a geocache on it.
The trail starts at Bennett Lake. I’m really liking the National Park’s red chairs, they’re comfortable to sit on and they add a splash of colour to an otherwise dull photo. The geocache was about 1 ½ km down the trail, so the resulting hike was about 3 km.
The next geocache was at Laverty Falls, a 2.2 km hike in. The weather was holding so we decided to hike the Moosehorn Trail back making an advertised 7.3 km loop. Ed figured we hiked just under 9 km on this loop trail when we included the diversions of hiking around the various waterfalls.
The photo on the left is Laverty Falls. The photo on the right is one of three waterfalls we saw on the Moosehorn Trail.
At one of the falls was a deep pool where some young people (early twenties) were jumping off the rocks. Oh, to be young and adventurous again.
The falls were nice and the rock formations interesting.
The Moosehorn Trail was a little more difficult than the Laverty Falls Trails. This is one section of the trail. There were several good ups and downs and lots of rocks to clamber over.
Not a lot of flowers along the trail but some interesting mushrooms and moss.
There was still daylight left and it was only raining a bit so we drove to a road that bordered the park to look for a few more geocaches.
I thought this one was interesting ---- the paper definitely wasn’t going to get wet with all of those containers stacked inside each other.
We’re paying for the great weather we had yesterday with a cloudy, bit of fog and chance of rain kind of day. The weather is OK to hike in so we put on the hiking boots, grabbed the back pack and rain jackets and headed out. First stop is the Tracey Lake Trail --- yep it has a geocache on it.
The trail starts at Bennett Lake. I’m really liking the National Park’s red chairs, they’re comfortable to sit on and they add a splash of colour to an otherwise dull photo. The geocache was about 1 ½ km down the trail, so the resulting hike was about 3 km.
The next geocache was at Laverty Falls, a 2.2 km hike in. The weather was holding so we decided to hike the Moosehorn Trail back making an advertised 7.3 km loop. Ed figured we hiked just under 9 km on this loop trail when we included the diversions of hiking around the various waterfalls.
The photo on the left is Laverty Falls. The photo on the right is one of three waterfalls we saw on the Moosehorn Trail.
At one of the falls was a deep pool where some young people (early twenties) were jumping off the rocks. Oh, to be young and adventurous again.
The falls were nice and the rock formations interesting.
The Moosehorn Trail was a little more difficult than the Laverty Falls Trails. This is one section of the trail. There were several good ups and downs and lots of rocks to clamber over.
Not a lot of flowers along the trail but some interesting mushrooms and moss.
There was still daylight left and it was only raining a bit so we drove to a road that bordered the park to look for a few more geocaches.
I thought this one was interesting ---- the paper definitely wasn’t going to get wet with all of those containers stacked inside each other.