Located in Mount Robson park, this moderate hike is an ~8mile out and back trail at the amazing campground on the far shore of the stunning blue lake. Hiking this is a must do if you are traveling in the area. Is part of the larger berg lake trail. I continued on to whitehorse campground before it was closed due to avalanche blasting (i’ll post the video). Tomorrow I’ll post the trail from beyond just kinney lake trail, which i think is how I will break up trails that continue past.
When I hiked this on May 2nd, the melting runoff caused a temporary creek to flow into the lake, bringing with it large amounts of silt. The plume could be seen from across the lake and I thought it was just the coolest thing.
Extra photos are reflective lake surface with whitehorn mountain in the back ground, a view of the plume from up close, and the weird shoreline that gets built up on the outflow side. Shows how deep it gets so fast.
FYI for those interested, the campsite is Whitehorn (not Whitehorse). Beautiful area, and will be well worth visiting Berg Lake once the trail is up and running again (flooding damaged bridges a few years ago, with repairs set to be completed this summer)
Oops, yeah somehow I had it as whitehorn mtn, whitehorse cg, and white falls (which i believe is still correct). Thought that was a bit much. Glad I was wrong.
I spent 5 days backpacking to Berg Lake, and Snowbird Pass in 2018, and it was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. Kinney Lake is beautiful, but what came after Whitehorse was absolutely insane. I can’t imagine how it’s changed since the flood, especially Emperor Falls. Definitely go back when you can do the whole thing. Snowbird Pass is a challenge (probably best to start early from the Robson Pass campground), but even if you don’t make the whole trail, whatever you can make is incredible (and if you can make the entire thing, it keeps getting better).
Would love to do the whole thing someday. Super jealous of the 2018 trip you had. Yeah, I’d like to see photos with before/after.
These photos are balanced well, but it seems that a lot of your work is desaturated and dark. Is that intention? It’s not something I often see in landscape photography.
No, it’s something I’ve noticed too as I’m seeing them posted. Think I need to adjust display settings on the monitor because they seem less so on it, and generally just get better at it as well. Thanks for the advice!
This looks terrible… I’m so sad seeing such a magical place beeing slowly destroyed by global warming. It make me hate myself and every human on earth.
Must have been a nice place to be before the industrial revolution…
I could see maybe if you were looking at pictures of the Robson glacier on the other side, but what in OPs pictures made you have this response?
Isn’t there supposed to be permafrost all over the mountain? It also seems there have been alot of avalanches who destroyed a good part of the trees.
It also looks likes what happend in Switzerland a few weeks ago.