Janas Adventures

2008-11-07T22:03:00.004-07:00

Day 4.....the adventure continues......Rocky Forks Campground.....47.9km's from start, 10.3km's from Climax Creek......what can I say about this walk.....bush, lots of bush.....trees...the usual. My sister was completely bored, and I have to admit I was pretty bored myself. It was not most exciting part of the trail we had walked.The privy was a log that felt like you would break through if you moved the wrong way....and let's just say you would not want to fall into the pit. This camp lacked, how do I put in in gentle terms, and good water supply. Basically it was a swamp with a bad smell to it....it was not pretty. So we ration the remanding water and when it came time for supper we got a pot full, treated and then boiled the water for 7 mins. just to be sure.....let's just say there was green stuff growing in it! The weather was pretty good, sunny and not too many clouds. We did see a cool waterfall, but the horsefly's were horrible. They weren't as bad as when I was in Wateron, but they were bad. My comrades did limit me to 50 pictures per day.....which is good cause I ended up taking 49. Which is pretty good for me.

2007-12-05T12:48:00.001-07:00

A little more pictures of Day 3.

2007-12-05T12:02:00.001-07:00

Day 3 Climax Creek, I know what your thinking, and no, nothing like that happened. So you can just forget about that. Anyway, it again had rained that night and so I tried to dry the tent off again. Again we left before are compodrades and again they passed us right around the time we were passing the rangers cabin. which I have to say, was not as nice as the first one. It was more or less, looked liked it was slipped in the middle of the bush. But it meant that we were getting close to a diver, which would put us right on track with the map I made. The morning was sunny and we started out walking through fire weed again and this time there was more up hill, bigger uphills. But you got to walk along this cliff edge for quite some time, so that was cool. The sucky part was seeing all the damage that was caused by the fire, I took out most of the valley we were in and most of the valley on the other side of the river. The trail was like the day before, pretty clear, one person wide, pretty flat, and a lot of weaving through trees. Once we passed the cabin and got to the river just pass, that's when things went array. The map showed us crossing but there was no bridge, the river was pretty deep looking and looked like it had a good current going through it, so we didn't think we were suppose to cross there. So after much discussion on the map, my sister took a good look at it and then we decided to backtrack, where we found another trail heading off to the right that walked along the river. It was a muddy trail and not well marked and hard to see, but we thought this had to be it....thankfully it did turn out to be the right trail. It was just fluke we managed to see it, cause the trail that lead right to the river, where it looked like you had to cross was a pretty major trail...so maybe that was something else, or it went that way at one time. After we got back onto a better more "clear" path, we came upon two other bridges further down. One half the bridge was hanging in the water and half rotten, and the other was fully submersed in water. Mark this as the first time we had to take our boots off to cross the creek. It was pretty cold, but at least there weren't a million bugs eating you. After crossing we continued and came upon another this loots like the place to cross but was not the place to cross. The trail lead straight to it. We searched for a good half hour for a bridge, a sign on the other side of the bank, so see if indeed we were suppose to cross. Yeah, no luck. Finally Sara decided to attempt to cross just to see if she could do it. She was the tallest and probably the best chance with her marathon running legs to get across....if she couldn't do it, me and Charlene definitely won't be able to. She managed to get a few feet into the water before it was practically at her waist and was to strong to go on. So we pulled her back out with the rope and dwelled on what we were going to do. We had that "what do we do no?" look. Sara decided to examine the map more carefully and thanks to her map course she took in university, she realized the mountains were suppose to be at a different angle to us, as to where we were suppose to cross. So we backtrack, again, and found the same thing as before a hidden trail going off to the right leading to a bridge. Hallelujah! The bridge was interesting a kind of scary to cross, due to the big gaping sections in it. But we all passed the best sight we had seen all day, and managed to make it to camp in one piece. Once we got to camp we set up, went down to our little babbling brook and cleaned up a bit. Then we let Sara throw the rope with the beaner on it on the bear pole.....yeah big mistake, she threw it and the beaner clipped into the rope and got stuck at the top of the tree. So the got a really log stick and Charlene jumped on Sara's back and they managed to get it off, but not after I took some nice incriminating photographs!!

2007-12-05T11:04:00.001-07:00

Day 2 Grizzly Campground.....well just from the name of the campground, I wasn't too keen to see said campground. Well it had rained in the night and so everything was wet. So when we got up, the sun was shinning so I dried off the trap and tent so it won't be so heavy. we then had breakfast, there's something nice about sitting in the sun looking out at a beautiful lake. After we packed up and meet our new neighbours we headed off for an early start. Just about 50 paces down the trail we find nice looking running water, which we were unaware of yesterday. So we stopped and filled all the bottles with water and treated them. We also hit our first bridge and ranger cabin. Let's just say, I was hoping that the nice bridges were going to continue. After you pass the ranger cabin the trail gets bad really fast. As in, you walk through shin high foliage on both sides. You can't really see the trail but a dent in the foliage to know where your going and since it rained your pants get really wet. Oh, but wait there are sections of high bush, that's when you get really wet. But it opened up further down the trail so that when you walk your boots and pants dry off. Which was nice, cause I get a little cranky when my feet get wet. Our friends ended up passing us, and yeah, they could walk fast....they had just woke up when we headed off. We ended up walking through big areas of burnt trees with a few years of fire weed growing. It was cool for about the first two hours, then it just got boring and kind of annoying. Now, instead of wet foliage you have burnt trees to dodge and duct and jump over. Yeah, then there is the ash smear you end up getting on your pants...it's lovely....reall.....But thankfully I planned to wear my clothes for the whole two weeks....well, I wasn't going to, but then my sister and Charlene got really annoyed at me so I decided to keep wearing them. After a few hours in the burnt trees we cam out onto level ground where there was a small spot of trees that weren't burnt. Basically the only spot we hit that wasn't burnt, oh and it just happened to be the camp, which was right by the river. It was actually a pretty cool place. Most of the trial was small hills and not to much large hills. There was a lot of weaving and up/down, but it was tame, compared to big, big hills. So it wasn't too bad. The campground was you typical back country no one around campgrounds. If a flat spot for your tent and you get a fire pit, a log for a privy and bear pole with no cable. Although we did have benches that were made so we could sit on. After a while you begin to miss sitting on a nice comfy chair. So had dinner, chatted with our friends, they were making a loop and end at the end of skyline....which just so you know is like twice the distance they were going.....but I learned a few good tips from them and made me dream of wanting to be able to walk 30kms in a day. That's just a little too much for me. So we hung out food and packed her in for the night. Grizzly campground is about kms from the beginning and kms from the end. The South Boundary is approx. 176kms, with a max. elevation gain of 2255m and medicine lake....where you start hiking.....26kms from Jasper.

2007-12-05T09:53:00.001-07:00

Here are few animal shots and our stuff waiting to be packed!

2007-10-09T16:39:00.000-06:00

Ah, the South Boundary, another 14 day hike baby!!! So this time it was me, my friend and my sister came hiking. Well, right there you can manage me and my sister for 14 days straight...needles to say we didn't like each other that much at the end. I enjoyed the trip and it was way easier than the the North Boundary. Oh, baby when you have bug spray, things seem to be easier. Although we had rain and a lot of wet plants, which isn't any better, but still it made me happy it wasn't mosquito's! Day 1 Jacques Lake Well, this is the nicest trail of the trip. It is wide like a road, and only really has a lot of up at the beginning. It's pretty smooth and was not all that muddy. I had this really old bug spray with 98% deet in it, and I was going to cover myself in it before I went, but just my luck it leaked all over my car rug, so now I have this nice wet pee looking spot, thankfully it doesn't smell. Well, the trip started off on a high note....no, it was OK, it wasn't all that warm, but it wasn't raining. The first night you end up sleeping right beside Jacques lake, the rangers have a really sweet cabin right there . You have to book in advance cause this is a popular spot, which I didn't know, but thankfully there was only two other people there. again the signs on this trail are totally whacked, none of my distances were right. This is a horse trial is there are gates you have to go through and horse crap you have to dodge while walking but at least there was no real big mud puddles. This trip was a little touch and go for a while.....the parks people didn't open it until, I think, was a week before we went to let people hike it. Something about snow and bears, so I ended up writing to the Parks people and I think they got annoyed of me asking, cause they ended up opening up the trail. It's good that we didn't want to hike the North Boundary again, cause it didn't even open once this year. Anyways, when we did reach the camp there we bear poles a half dome privy and picnic tables. It was pretty nice camp. The bear poles had buckets at the end of the rope, so we ended up using several ropes, cause only one bag would fit under the buckets. We there was a journal, so of course we took part in adding our own two cents. Charlene did some yoga for stretching, showed me some moves and man it definitely helps to stretch after a big hike. Although my shoulders were pretty tired. Later that night while we were in our tent, two other people came and camped. Little did we know we were going to be seeing them at the next camp too. To Jacques lake from the parking lot was about 13kms, so it wasn't bad.

2007-06-19T22:00:00.001-06:00

This was a trip I took with my Friend for a weekend, we went climbing out by Jasper at the rock Gardens and Mt. morrow. We want to try out her new squid that she got for her birthday. It was fun, you know the great weekend of just hanging out, climbing, dancing, smore' making , relaxing and good food.

2007-06-19T21:44:00.000-06:00

One summer me and my Friend went rock climbing for a weekend, we went to the cliffs on Mt. Morroue, can't spell that....it's french, and the rock gardens, just messing around trying to learn how to use the new squid she got for her birthday. It was fun....we danced, climb and ate good food.

2007-06-19T21:33:00.000-06:00

Last day!! We ended up at Mt. Washington.....pretty cool place. You go skiing there in"winter" and then in summer you go bike riding, down the huge mountain down unbelievable trails! You have to wear body armor when you go. My sister says she went once and they called her brave for not going with disk brakes and armor....but really she didn't know. Oh, she knows now. I read the after math of the blog.....lets just say, she went out and got some disk brakes. After we rode the ski lift to the top several times, we play chess with these really big chess pieces.....it was harder to play with them being big, you can envision the board as well. But you get to play cool battle games with the pieces. Of course they have a gift shop, and yeah....I bought something...I have an addiction ok. Later when we got back, we went for an ice cream down at the docks.....oh baby, who doesn't love ice cream!!!

2007-06-19T21:24:00.000-06:00

After we got back from vi sting all the islands we had supper at the Quadra Inn right by the ferry landing...I had steak, of course and it was good, so was there Shirley temple. Then we went to visit this cove that was full of star fish....It was pretty cool, Sara said we could touch them, but only very carefully and put them back where we found them. We found some pretty cool ones! One more day of fun to go!!

2007-01-21T16:53:00.000-07:00

Other cool Pictures!

2007-01-21T16:31:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Day 4.....Another island to visit....We headed off "early" in the morning to Quadra Island. You have to take a ferry to get there from Campbell River. So we jumped onto this smaller ferry, for about a half hour, 20 mins. Not that long of a trip. We then docked at Quadra Island, Then went to Cortes Island, where we drove to a health food store with all the hippies....we then went to Manson's Landing, where they have bark-less trees. Something to do with a bug. It kills the bark on the tree's and the tree's end up dieing cause of it. We also saw some dead jellyfish in the water. We then made our way to Whaletown. Really small, we talking smaller then hick town. I don't even think you can classify it as a town or dwelling. The day was getting on so we decidied to go back and wait for the ferry back to Quadra Island. Just by the ferry is a cool little coffee shop. It's got this cool little coffee pot pouring into a teacup. You have to see it for yourself. When we got back to Quadra we had supper at the Inn right by the water....really good steak! Then we went to this really secret bay where you can see tons of starfish of all colours. It was a little hard to find...but we had inside information! I have never seen a starfish...it was pretty neat!

2007-01-20T17:30:00.000-07:00

Day 3 and my sister hasn't killed me yet. So, That was the day we went whale watching. We got up really early, I can't remember if we had breakfast....but we got on the boat it was really cold and windy. So we decide we should go to the front of the boat. Where, just to remind all those people who don't go on boats very often, that it's really cold in the front of the boat. We went for several hours...and we managed to see a few orcas, they came pretty close to our boat...managed to get them on video. Then when we came back we and had hot chocolate at the resturant. After we warmed up, we headed back to Campbell river for some really greasy, but really good seafood. It was the coolest place called Dick's. It a resturant located right on the docks. It floats. And you get your fish and chips in a newspaper, where you stick it in a hole in the picnic table and eat it with not utensils. It was great. After we finished we went back to my sister's for a relaxing night and watched a movie.

2006-12-09T21:36:00.000-07:00

Day 2 of my sister's we headed off to Telegraph Cove. Which quite the drive from Campbell River. We rented two kayak's and drove down there. We were staying in these cool little cabinee things. We looked arouns a bit, through the gift stores, and whale museum. Then we went kayaking. I fully admit that I didn't get very far. I had only gone kayaking once before and waves were seriously big...for me to be comfortable. So then I had some hot choclate at this little shack outside on the boardwalk. Later that night, we had dinner at this resturant that was right by the Old Salty Pub. Pretty good food...and service. After, we made a trip to the Salty Pub, where we had a shot of sourpuss and Glen attempted to drink a guinness...which me and Sara finished off. Then it was singing and dancing back to the cabin. Until morning.....

2006-12-09T21:00:00.000-07:00

This summer I visted my sister and her hubby on the island....by island I mean Vancouver island. She just happens to live in this pretty cool city called Campbell River. There are lot of things to experience when driving there. Like the Coquihalla, or the ferry ride in Vancouver to Nanaimo. The ferry has the best banana bread. Buy 2 if you like banana bread. When we were there, we visted Telegraph cove, Quadra Island, Mt. Washington...and just saw some of the ever popular sites!! One of the first night's there we had a fire on the beach and had some hot dogs, potato salad and smore's! By far that was one of the best things we did there. Apparently you can just hang out on the beach start a small fire with the drift wood and go to town!

2006-09-15T17:33:00.000-06:00

So the next day we got in the hot heat and head to Little Bow Provincial Park. We headed back to Milk river, then we took highway 4 upto Lethbridge. We copied everyone else and went to Tim Hortons. Where I have to say, I have never see a fuller Tims....but believe it or not they were quite fast, compare to any other Tims on the planet. I had a chicken salad, large of course. So we then headed to highway 23, where we drove to we hit Junction 529 East. While we were driving there we played this weird car game. Something about five or ten things the others person thinks of and then you have to find while you are driving. Like, a yellow car. Let's just say I totally won!! So we made it to Little bow, where it was extremely hot and dry. We set the tent up and I slept...cause that's what I do. The campsite was ok. Very open and sort of golf course looking. Not much of a lake....and one bathroom that was for a large area of campers. Not to wise. We went to Vulcan for dinner and ate at a hotel resturant, close to the gas station. Very good pie. Then we went to sleep. That night there we a horrible storm. Rain, wind, thunder and lightening. I could have swore there was a tornado. I had to pee so bad...and I was afriad of getting blown away on the way to the bathroom....so I peed in the firepit. So the next time you decide to make some food on there....maybe think agian!! The next morning we got up early, packed and drove to Vulcan agian for some pictures before heading off. After that we headed straight home. Road trip was over....thank god...cause I was so hot and muggy. Not to mention driving that far in three days is alot. But still an experience!

2006-09-10T16:11:00.000-06:00

2006-09-10T15:49:00.000-06:00

....Writing on stone is exactually what the park is all about. It is a small hike through some hoodoos to get to a peice of wall that has a battle scene carved into it. The hoodoo trail is very cool. Me and my friend decided to go on the hottest weekend of the Summer....so when we got there, all we wanted to do was jump into a tub of ice water. We were going to go the next day on the trail, but I thought why not go tonight, now that's it's cooled off and there is still alot of light left. Then tomorrow we can go to another place to camp the next night. It's very cool, I would do it agian. To be continued.....

2006-09-04T15:56:00.000-06:00

This was a fun little trip I took with my friend.....It was more a road trip than anything. We went to Writing On Stone Provincial Park. It was a very long drive. The driving went fast cause of the good music. We started off taking highway 2A...or Queen Elizabeth 2 all the way too Fort Macleod. That was a striaght forward drive. Of course you get the "slow ass old farmer drivers" on highway 2A going 70 when it's 110. Then you get the "I just have to go fast" drivers who think going 150 is a safe speed. Well, we did speed a little, but only by 10. The fuzz don't care if it's only 10 over. After we reached Fort Macleod we kept going on 2 until we reached Cardston. Just outside Cardston was supose to be secondary highway 501 East. You think we could find it??? No...never agian.... So we found a 501, of course it was West instead of East. But we never saw the East, so we took it. After about a half hour of driving on it it turned into gravel....yeah, we turned around went back to Cardston and ask a guy in a video store where it was. He did really know, so we went to a grocery store, they actually knew and then proceed to tell us to turn left after the big red barn and where the church used to be. So after we finally found 501 East we headed on down it. If you want the most boreing road that's it. Pretty much flat striaght and nothing in both directions for miles. Near the end of the road we had to stop for the cow that was on the road. That's a cow...of course I had to take a picture. So we turned onto highway 4 to Milk River. Very small, but neat little town. The sign for the town is very cool. We then had to get back on the 501 East to make it to the turn of Writing on Stone. Just keep in mind, the turn is in the middle of town and the signs are not that great. After you get on that road you drive until the turnoff of the Park. To Be Continued....

2006-07-10T12:39:00.000-06:00

So, this was a cross-country ski trip that me and a friend took. We went up to Maligne lake in Jasper. We ended up camping a Wapiti for $14 dollars a night...come one, make in an easy number to come up with. We sort of didn't plan this trip very well. We brought beans, but no can opener. So I decided to use my can opener on my pocket knife...but wait, I don't know how it works!!! So after freezy for about a half hour of trying to figure out how to use it, we got the beans open and stuck them on the fire. Ok, beans over a fire become very smoky tasteing. So, if you want good beans, suck it up and cook them over a stove. Laziness had taken over, so that's why we opted for the other way. Plus, you have to have beans over an open fire at least once in your life. This trip was a little later on in the winter season, so the ice didn't look all that frozen on the lake. I have been there skiing several times before, but the other times the ice was very frozen and very snow covered. This was a little weary. So we probably only went 5km's and then stop an took a few pictures while having a snack. We also visited Maligne Canyon. Always a good time. Although it seem's like you should have to wear crampon's when walking around it. In winter it's seriously icy. Some people have fallen and died there. But that's tourists not being careful. Kind of like when they walk on Columbia Icefield's and fall into the Carvasses. We also found the begining of the South Boundary Trail. Which are all set to do next summer. We were going to go this summer, but there have been too many wedding's that we had to go to or were a part of. But I won't tell you too much of the South Boundary, just that the trail head start's on a off shoot road on the Maligne lake road. We had a friendly little squirrel visit us at Maligne lake. He tipped over my fruitopia. Good thing it was almost empty, otherwise I would of had to have had some word's with that Squirrel.

2006-07-02T21:16:00.000-06:00

So, I haven't updated in a while, but I have been busy with my sisters wedding, and I am the maid of honor...but enough with that. I would like to tell you about this lovely trip we have done several times in winter. It's called the Tri-Ice-a-Thon. You go spend three days ice climbing in Nordegg. Well, just outside Nordegg. You pay a certian amount, but you are feed and are provided with a place to sleep. It's actually a competition. The first night, is just registering, bonfire and some practice climbing, at the COE (Center for Outdoor Education). Then the next morning you start early in the morning at Frontier Lodge for breakfast, where you find out your teams! After breakfast you get together with you teams and start on the first climbing wall. There are three places to climb. Shunda Hostal, COE and Frontier. There is an ice wall set up at every location and three sides to each wall. So you climb three times or more at each location. There is usally a speed climb at every location and it is timed. There is also usally a technique climb on one of the walls. Previously there was..one tool climbing, stay in the line climbing, blindflod climbing and the 50ft high wall. They mark you on skill, preformance, speed and participation. At the end of the day, when you are so tired, you go for dinner and are shown pictures, have presentations from various climbers...Sean Issac. Then you are told you rank based on if your a beginner, intermediate or advanced. If you rank or end up as a wild card, you go to the big wall, and compete for top prizes. Very nice prizes from Mec, OR, Black Diamond and other outfits!!! My friend is a beginner and won first place last year. My sister was 2nd runner up for placing in beginner catagory this year and also won 9th place the year before that. It's a fun little weekend and you learn alot and meet alot of nice, smart, interesting and big name people. It's usally held in Febuary. The website is actually at the COE website. www.coe.ca

2006-05-24T17:55:00.000-06:00

2006-05-24T17:20:00.000-06:00

Here....I am moving on to bigger and better things....so i'm going to dive striaght into it and talk about a trip my friend did with me out in Waterton Park. It's called Crypt Lake. I actually heard about this from a guy at work, who I wouldn't take for much of a hiker, but apparently does this hike every year. It is about 17.2 km's round trip, about 6 - 8 hours, after you get off the ferry. You have to get a ticket for the ferry, which can be for there and back and then you take this ferry across the lake to the start of the hike. There are two seperate times the ferry brings people there and back. So the boats start at 9 and 10 in the morning and 4 and 5 in the afternoon. It's $14 dollars Canadian for the whole thing and the boats are usally open from June to September. It's just a day hike and is rated moderate/difficult, so make sure your in decent shape before doing this trail, the time constriants can be a little much. Pretty much from the time you start you are hiking uphill. You gain about 700m or 2, 300ft. It's in the trees for a good part of the begining, then it starts to open up into some switchbacks that take you up a rocky hill. The switchbacks continue for a couple of km's and then you cross a little river to end up on a cliff face, where you walk carefully across it to a metal ladder. You walk up the ladder into a natural cave that is also in the cliff face. The cave slowly gets smaller until you reach the other side. At this point you are looking of a huge dropoff. You then follow this metal cable that is bolted to the rock face to a open meadow above. You slowly climb a little more and reach Crypt Lake. The lake itself is spectacular and is quite huge. It is at the bottom of a mountian base. There is a off shot trial you can take on the way back, which me and a friend took. I highly recommend it if you think you have plenty of time to get back to the boat. This is a great hike and it has some really great scenery for a day hike.

2006-04-24T17:23:00.000-06:00

Yeah...last day!!! So here we are the last day of the trip. It took forever to get there. The hike is pretty short, and we have hiked it before, so we pretty much just gum booted it to the end. We really wanted some ice cream. There is this little resturant at the bottom of Robson, right by the the info center, and they sell really good ice cream, especially after being the woods for two weeks!!! It is about 10.9 km's from Whitehorn campground to the end of the Berg Lake trail. It is about 177.6 km's from the start of the North Boundary Trail, although if you tack on Mumm Basin and Toboggan Falls, plus all the walking in the campsites, I figure about 200 km's. So the start of the trail back starts off by going over a suspenson bridge. Then walking up a large hill. The trail is really wide, well marked and not that difficult. After you reach the top, you go down, down a long way. There are a lot of switchbacks and if it's hot outside, it's a very dry heat. Once you get to the bottom, you walk across a flat semirocky area to a bridge, where you cross to go up yet some more hills and steep dropoffs. If it is wet, you have to watch your step. I don't find it that steep, but depending if you are afraid of heights you would probably not like it! Then you reach Kinney Lake, camp one. It's about 7 km's from the begining of the Berg Lake Trail. Most people walk there for a day hike. So the trail to the camp is seriously wide and well managed. The hills are not steep, but there are a few spots that are just plain hot, every time I walk by these spots it's down right hot. I don't know why it is like this, but it is. When we reached the sign that they have at the begining, we were so relieved. We took a picture and felt like we were the Queens of the world. When we got in the van, we forgot how much we love actual seats!!!!!!

2006-04-13T13:25:00.000-06:00

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!!!