Asulkan Valley Hike (Glacier National Park, BC)

The Asulkan Valley trail was one of my favorite hikes.
If you are doing this hike, and have a day or two to spare, then pay for the use of the cabin at the glacier. You must pay down by the camp in order to get the key to get into the cabin. The cabin comes equiped with heaters and stoves.
The cabin is at the base of the glacier and is surrounded on the sides and from behind by glaciers!
While hiking up the valley you will see a pair of nice waterfalls.

Here is the trail (a narrow and steep moraine ridge) that you hike up once you get to the end of the valley.
The glacier, in the last few pictures, to the right is the Asulkan Glacier. To the left, but not visable, is the Illecillewaet Glacier. The cabin is ringed on 3 sides by these two glaciers and that makes for cooler air!

The higher you go the smaller the trees get and the slower their growth. At the height of summer it was 7C at the cabin on a very warm day. The wind was coming off of the glacier and we agreed that we should have brought gloves! Here is a picture of a live and dead tree with the glacier behind them.

As you get higher you may see small and colorfull flowers and animals. At the end of August the blueberries were not yet ripe. You are not supposed to pick berries or fruit in National Parks. Please leave them alone.

Here is the cabin with a glacier behind it.