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Kicking Horse Campground in Manning Park - Beginner-Friendly backpacking · Sat. Jul. 13th, 2024 - Sun. Jul. 14th, 2024
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Start: Saturday, Jul. 13th, 5:00 am
End: Sunday, Jul. 14th, 11:59 pm
Pre-trip meeting: Tuesday, Jul. 9th, 7:00 pm
Pre-trip meeting location: Clubroom
Description:
"Kicking Horse Campground sits in sub-alpine meadows at the 13.5 km mark of the Heather Trail. It includes 15 tent pads, a bear cache, and an outhouse. This campground is very busy during the peak alpine bloom (usually late July to early August) and on long weekends."
(taken from the BC Parks website because I'm too lazy to write my own blurb)
I have permits for 3 tent pads (9 people). We will get up early Saturday morning to drive to Manning and hike ~13km to the campsite, see details at the AllTrails link below. If we have a full crew, we will each pay about $7 to cover the cost of the camping permits (in addition to paying your driver for gas, of course).
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/canada/british-columbia/kicking-horse-campground-via-heather-trail
On Sunday, we can head up to Three Brothers Mountain (an extra 1km and ~160m elevation) before hiking back to the cars.
This trip will be a good introduction to backpacking if you are looking at getting into it. You should have some day hiking experience.
Posted: 2024-04-07 17:43:57
Last modified: 2024-04-07 17:53:41