Eric Praetzel - West 2015 Trip

Aug 23 - 

 - 9C morning
 - Railroad loop at Glacier NP - easy 
 camped at Illicilliet campground
 - drove to Rogers Pass after to find that hikes require 4 adults due to bears
 hiked Balu Pass - rated 4h 12.8km 788m
 - visability got progressively worse - due to USA fire smoke
 4pm at campsite - trying to figure out what to do tomorrow and beyond
 - trying to get trail information is difficult - there used to be a national park newsletter that covered all trails
 - now there are various maps with bits of information on one and bits on another
 Okanogan vally has lots of smoke apparently
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Rogers Pass

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Balu Pass Trail

Hike start: 1:45pm
done: 6:04pm

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Aug 23

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Aug 24 - 

 - cool night, still hazy, 6C nights - 
 end of day Golden Municipal Campground
 insane amount of mosquitoes
 took short loop of the ruins of Glacier House
 Perley Rock trail 10.8km 1143 elevation gain - smoke got worse during the day
 Golden had IGA with good prices and met park warden from Jasper with info about good hikes
 the hike we hoped to do only went 3.3km before it was loose scree and is no longer recommended - but we'd hiked that part via the trail we did
 Groups of 4+ for bear protection required

Glacier House Ruins

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Perley Rock Trail - 5.4km one way, 1143m elevation gain

Start: 11:33am
Top by glacier: 2:02pm
Finished: 4:45pm

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Aug 24 - old Cannon Camera

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