August 28th: A long hike and a long drive.

We’ve now started to leave the Rockies, heading towards the coast on the Yellowhead highway. The first stop was just back into BC, in the Mt. Robson park. We visited the visitor centre (I mean, center), from where we could see the summit of Mt. Robson, covered in snow. Apparently, it’s not that common to see the whole peak; as it’s so often cloud covered. Then we did a the longest hike so far, 4.5 km alongside the Robson River as far as Kinney lake (and back again!). The views were stunning along the way.

The second stop was an area of old growth rain forest; it’s not common to have rainforest so far from the coast, but the geography of the area leads to a lot of rain, luckily not while we were there!