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35 Greatest Hikes Presented by Explore Magazine Text by David Webb Celebrating 35 Years of Adventure Contents LIVE THE ADVENTURE CANADA’s 35 greATEST HIKES PRESENTED BY EXPLORE MAGAZINE TEXT BY DAVID WEBB Celebrating 35 YEARS of adventure CONTENTS British Columbia 11. 20. 28. Larch Valley-Sentinel La Cloche Silhouette The East Coast Trail 1. Pass Trail Avalon Peninsula Berg Lake Trail Banff National Park Killarney Provincial Park Mount Robson Provincial Park Yukon Saskatchewan Quebec 2. 29. West Coast Trail 12. 21. Grey Mountain Pacific Rim National Park The Boreal Trail Les Lacs & Les Cretes Whitehorse 3. Meadow Lake Provincial Park Forillon National Park 30. Chilkoot Trail 13. 22. Auriol Trail Northern British Columbia/Alaska Grey Owl’s Cabin Deux-Criques Trail Kluane National Park 4. Prince Albert National Park La Mauricie National Park 31. Black Tusk Montana Mountain (Garibaldi Lake) Manitoba New Brunswick Trail Garibaldi Provincial Park Carcross 5. 14. 23. 32. The Sunshine Coast Pisew Falls to Fundy Footpath Grizzly Lake to Talus Trail Kwasitchewan Falls Bay of Fundy Lakes Paint Lake & Pisew Falls Powell River 24. Tombstone Territorial Park Provincial Parks Mount Carleton 6. 15. Mount Carleton Provincial Park Northwest The Iceline Trail The Mantario Trail Yoho National Park Territories Whiteshell Provincial Park Nova Scotia 7. 33. Trophy Mountain Ontario 25. Alpine Meadows Canol Heritage Trail Liberty Lake Trail Northwest Territories/Yukon Wells Gray Provincial Park 16. Kejimkujik National Park Highland Backpacking 34. 26. Ingraham Trail Hikes Alberta Trail Fishing Cove Trail Algonquin Provincial Park Yellowknife Cape Breton Highlands 8. 17. National Park Plain of the Six Bruce Trail Nunavut Glaciers Southern Ontario Newfoundland Banff National Park 35. 18. & Labrador 9. Akshayuk Pass Coastal Trail Auyuittuq National Park Skyline Trail Lake Superior Provincial Park Jasper National Park 27. 19. Green Gardens Trail 10. Top of the Giant Gros Morne National Park Tamarack Trail (Kabeyun Trail) Waterton Lakes National Park Sleeping Giant Provincial Park INTRODUCTION YEARS SINCE 1981 Think back to the moment on your last hike when you stood in quiet awe of a view so perfect the world seemed to pause as you marvelled at its beauty. Remember the way the air smelled, perhaps scented by woodland foliage or ocean mist. Visualize the serenity of the forest, alpine or coastline. Think of how every drop of sweat was so worth it to experience this one mindful moment. To commemorate explore’s 35th anniversary, we’ve compiled 35 ways for you to feel that sensation again. Canada is a big, beautiful country with boundless options for hiking in our vast parks and wild spaces. It’s often challenging just to find a trail, let alone hoof it, so we’ve done the grunt-work for you with this guide to Canada’s 35 Greatest Hikes. By no means an exhaustive list of all of Canada’s best hikes, let this guidebook serve as an entry point to a world of outdoor wonder. From here, you’ll soon discover a plethora of additional hikes in every region. We hope you enjoy these trails—35 of our favourites from 35 years of publishing Canada’s number-one outdoor adventure magazine: explore. BRITISH COLUMBIA flickr.com/photos/jeffpang Hike 1 Berg Lake Trail Location: Mount Robson Provincial Park, British Columbia Length: 23 km Difficulty: ocated in Mount Rob- son Provincial Park, near the BC/Alberta border, 23-kilometre- L long Berg Lake Trail is like a highlight reel for the Rocky Mountains. Under the shadow of 3,959-metre Mount Robson—the high point in the Canadian Rockies—you’ll wander past emerald-co- loured Kinney Lake and near thundering Emperor Falls, entranced by dramatic mountain vistas throughout. Some lucky trekkers may even catch a glimpse of giant chunks of ice calving from the Mist, Berg and Robson glaciers. Of course, all this scenery draws a crowd—Berg Lake Trail is now managed by a reservation system, which opens annually on January 2. Map: BC Parks Page 1 BRITISH COLUMBIA Parks Canada/J. McCulloch Hike 2 West Coast Trail Location: Pacific Rim National Park, British Columbia Length: 76 km Difficulty: Map: Parks Canada unning along the west Hobiton Entrance Anchorage Squalicum Sachsa 60 The story behind the trail: Lake LEGEND TSUNAMI HAZARD ZONE Lake coast of Vancouver Island, 570 30 14 60 highway The Huu-ay-aht, Ditidaht and Pacheedaht First Nations However, after the wreck 420 Sachawil 30 Self Pt 210 120 all-weather road The Valencia 30 30 Lake Helby Is Aguilar Pt 3 R UW ' V LU Pachena have always lived along Vancouver Island's west coast. of the Valencia in 1906, West Coast Trail forest route Tsusiat 24km distance in km from Pachena Access IN CASE OF EARTHQUAKE, GO These nations used trails and paddling routes for trade with the loss of 133 lives, Hobiton in Pacific Rim National Bamfield Calamity TO HIGH GROUND OR INLAND 300 West Coast Trail - beach route and travel long before foreign sailing ships reached this the public demanded Mackenzie Lake Creek West Coast Bamfield River Anchorage region over 200 the government do River Channel IR 12 Indian Reserve outhouse years ago. Over the more to help mariners Inlet 120 access century following along this coastline. Park, the famous WestTrail Map TSL Treaty Settlement Lands Dianna Brady beach access contact sailors In response the 90 30 Island Beach 30 swampy area brought the government built Bamfield to Port Renfrew, parking Burlo Peninsula buildings beginning of a Pachena Lighthouse, Vancouver Island 90 Hamilton Is cable car Coast Trail attracts trekkers Point extensive mud changing world to established lifesaving flats at low tide 60 sand, foreshore flats passable at impassable headland the First Nations. stations and improved 150 Little tides 6ft/1.8m rocky ledge, rocky reef Mills Squalicum Voss Pt Burts Is WCT Information Trade increased, and the telegraph route to become a life saving trail for 150 shipwreck, general location only difficult surge channel 90 Lake Trevor Centre - register on R Haines and off the trail here. many sailing ships met a tragic fate navigating in these shipwreck victims and their rescuers. With improvements from around the globe. Originally forged 0D\ 6HSW 120 campsite - all campsites are located viewpoint, point of interest 60 Is on the beaches unfamiliar and hazardous waters. Sailors soon referred to technology the frequency of shipwrecks decreased and (Bamfield = 5km) GC Guardian cabin Creek Taylor Is West Coast Trail Information Centre to this coastline as the “Graveyard of the Pacific”. the life saving trail was gradually abandoned. In 1973 the Creek - register on and off 240 Anacla Ditidaht luxury tent trail became part of the newly established Pacific Rim 150 TSL Pacific Rim National Park Reserve Between 1888 and 1890 the government erected a National Park Reserve. Today, hiking the West Coast Trail 90 to offer shipwreck survivors a route to TsusiatTsusiat Clonard Food locker Squalicum telegraph line along the coastline. The line was an attempt is about exploring Vancouver Island’s temperate rainforest 240 90 Pachena Access na Bea (HFN) Pache ch Pacific Rim National Park Reserve Huu-ay-aht Place Name to establish communications between the west coast and wild coastline, experiencing a fabled land recounted 150 (DFN) 60 passable Marine Zone Ditidaht Place Name 150 2 km at tides below (PFN) Pacheedaht Place Name villages, the newly established Cape Beale and Carmanah in traditional histories, walking in the steps of shipwreck 90 Whittlestone Pt 8ft/2.4m Black contour interval - 30m IR 1 safety, today, it’s a reservation-managed 90 lighthouses, and larger communities in hopes of saving victims, and appreciating the beauty of territories that 30 2 km Tapaltos Pachena Tide heights quoted on the face of the map are approximate and photographs courtesy mariner lives. First Nation people continue to call home. LakeLake Kichha assume calm seas; use tide tables for Tofino, B.C. Add one hour Parks Canada Bay during summer months for Pacific Daylight Saving Time. 2016 edition Tsuquadra 30 Lake Lake IR 7 three- to six-day bucket-list backcountry Lawton Pt Lake 2 km 90 60 Bay 180 300 Klanawa 390 4 km 30 150 300 210 120 NarrowsNitinat "NEREUS" 360 240 3.5 km Michigan Darling 4070-ton Kicha TSL Tsocowis hike. Camping near Tsusiat Falls and the 180 Greek freighter 60 Be 240 90 eha ac Billy Aug. 1937, out Ke h 270 240 Little of Kobe for 30 Clutus 30 150 River Tsusiat Keeha 210 150 Goat Point Alberni, River Orange TSL Trestle Lake no loss 120 60 Bay 4 km 30 IR 2 of life. 6 km vertigo-inducing ladders of the southern 120 Creek Creek Black 270 Creek Cove Clutus Pt 30 km Mud Juice Tsusiat 150 210 Falls GC Creek Cape Beale 150 derelict donkey engine km 22 24 km 28 km 26 km headlands between Ck 120 derelict grader Cape Beale Lighthouse Pachena Access 90 ladders 7 km and Michigan Creek 60 to main Tsuquadra half are two notable aspects of this 20 km "BRUCE 1", are impassable River trail from Darling 90 trail seiner Feb. 1976, River east to this passable Pt Cove crew of four, two Deadman 120 point passable at at tides below passable at tides below 9ft/2.7m 16 km 3 masted schooner crew lost. Malsit 18 km 9ft/2.7m tides below American barque Wooden steamer "ALASKAN" anchor 3 masted "VESTA" 286 tons, extensive mud on rocks barkentine 7ft/2.1 m flats at low tide "CHARLES B. KINNEY" 150 tons, Jan. 1923 out of TSL 50 December 1897, "UNCLE JOHN", Pt Tsusiat 6 km 14 km passable at Nov. 1886, with lumber o Victoria loaded with salt no loss of life. trail—but every day is memorable on 24 Motor 314 tons, tides 6ft/1.8m out of Port Townsend for the salteries in Barkley 12 km GC fishing vessel Oct.
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