Thursday, April 13, 2006

So, here we are on the second last day of the trip. How could anyday top the day before??? It can't, with Robson you are lucky if you get a few really good hours. So in the morning we got up and had some breakfast. We had been on the trail before and knew that going back was pretty fast and there was no need to rush. We were headed to Whitehorn, which is the second camp on the start of the Berg Lake trail. Whitehorn is 10.9 km's from the start of the Berg Lake Trail, 9.3 km's from Berg Lake Campground and 166.7 km's from the start of the North Boundary Trail. But we included Mumm Basin and Toboggan Falls into our calculations. So it ended up being 174.8 km's walked thus far. The first km of the trail to Whitehorn, is pretty easy going. A little uphill and a little down. The trail is exceptionally well marked, and well used. Alot of other hikers also. Then you reach Marmot Campround on the other side of Berg Lake. This campground is prone to flash flooding and really isn't one of the nice campgrounds. I have stayed there once, and really not that great of a site. After you reach that, you walk along this flat rocky open area that then goes into a rocky cliff that is pretty flat. Probably the easiest part of the trail, except your feet tend to not like you afterwards. This is the area I call the desert. It at first looks like a hard trail to follow, but it really isn't. After you start walking you see it's pretty well defined. As much as it can be. Then you reach Emperor Falls Campground. I stayed there once also, the first time I went. Never agian!!! The river is right by most of the campsite and you can't sleep at all. Not to mention the washroom at this particular camp reeks!!! It's an outhouse, but a over dated one. This is a good place to stop and fill up with water, cause the next four km's are downhill and there is not water!!! The four km's are up on cliffs and have extreme downhills. If you don't like heights and are not that physically in good shape, you will not like this part very much. Although it is worse coming up it. Just image 4 km's of uphill. And I mean UPHILL! Then you walk probably one more km along a river and Bang your there. Although you really can't Robson form there really well, your are in the valley of a thousand waterfalls!!!

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