Hello friends,
Todays post is a continuation of part one! If you haven’t read it yet, click here! 🙂
So we are now done our beautiful lunch, which was fruit, muffins, and peanut butter & honey sandwiches (so good!), and we are starting up to Harvey Pass! At this point I was exhausted, but I wanted to do it because of the views and pictures I could get haha
From Bourgeau Lake, it is about a 2.2 km slightly harder hike to Harvey Pass. This path leads to magnificent views.
Already the mountains are so beautiful. I have literally never been this high on a mountain before. We were so close to the top!
So you see that greyish rocky “path” … yeah that is what we hiked up. Let me tell you there was no path, we literally scrambled up rocks! Very loose rocks to say the least. I am so happy we had hiking poles because they helped soo much! Especially on the way down. You think they would help more on the way up, however it was very easy to slide on the way down and if you put your poles in front of you it helps a lot!
There is Bourgeau Lake where we ate lunch at! I actually could not believe how much farther up we hiked after the huge hike we did just to get to the lake!
Oh my gosh, this was the coolest part of the entire day I would have to say! Can you spot what is on top of the mountain?! It’s big horn sheep! There was quite a few of them up there, we could not believe that we actually saw them!
And this is the farthest we got on Harvey’s Pass. You can continue around the lake and up further, but we were exhausted and had a long hike back. We also wanted to get back to the car before dark and our hour drive home!
It was also so unbelievably windy at this point in the hike! I could not imagine going up higher on this mountain. We would have gotten blown off! It was so windy that it was hard to hear each other talk.
Literally soooo close to the top of the mountain! 🙂
My man trying to see the sheep. We could see them better in my camera then in his binoculars!
Still could not put my camera down even on the way back! I was in awe this entire hike….besides the fact that my legs were actually dying.
I looove glacial water. So beautiful.
This was a picture we took at the highest point we hiked, you can see how windy it was because of my hair and he is wearing his hat strap! haha Well I hope you enjoyed our hike! I would definitely recommend doing it even though it was a challenge, because I have been to the rockies a million times, but I have never seen sights like these before 🙂
Hope you guys enjoy living vicariously through my pictures! Would you continue to Harvey Pass or just stop at Bourgeau Lake?
Until next time,
xoxo
Beautiful photos as ususal!
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Thanks! 🙂
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Oh my gosh, the pass is incredible. You are making me want to come back to Canada ASAP.
Back in the 1980’s I hiked around the Columbia ice fields between Banff and Jasper. I had forgotten how incredibly beautiful your Rocky Mountains are. Thanks for the beautiful photos. I can almost feel the pain in your legs. 😁. Keep up the good work.
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My legs were dead haha you should definitely come back and visit, it will take your breath away!
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I bet! I need to go back and look at your reference article about the hike. I just glanced at that link briefly, but now I am intrigued. The altitude changes can really get to you as well. Thanks so much for the great story and inspiring photos.
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Peanut butter and honey sandwiches are the best! Gorgeous photos! Thank you for sharing!
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I know eh! Thanks for commenting! 🙂
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I went to Banff towards the end of Summer but did not get to see this GEM! How sad. Arent the Rockies so beautiufl?!
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Yes the Rockies are definitely a natural beauty!
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Amazing pictures 😍 love your post!!
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Thank you!!
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Omg – I was born and raised in Alaska, and this post is making me miss mountains so much! Lovely post 🙂
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Oh that is so cool! I have always wanted to go there! Whenever I look back at old posts or pictures it makes me miss the mountains too. Thanks for reading! ☺️
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