The route:
For our second day in the area we decided to do the Kaiser Loop. It's a 25km loop which takes starts from just above Huntington Lake, and climbs up to Kaiser Peak, and then back down around a different way.
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| Nice trails in the forest down low |
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| The trail climbs pretty fast, and has some great views on the way up |
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| The view from the alpine line on Kaiser. The green ground cover made it very pretty! |
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| Purple flowers in the sand! |
It was an 8.5k hike to the peak from the car, with about 1000m of elevation gain. Trail was smooth and very easy to follow. It became a bit less smooth once over the summit, as the full loop appears to see much less traffic, but we still had no problems following the trail.
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| The View from the top looking north-east. |
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| The view looking south-east. No snow on the trail, but still a couple of patches along the ridgeline. |
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| Line Creek Lake |
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| Bonnie Lake. |
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| Dead tree standing tall |
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| The last of the alpine/sub-alpine lupin fields before heading back into the trees for the remainder of the hike |
We weren't sure how well used the Mary's meadow trail was, so we ended up turning a little early onto a horse trail. It sorta dissolved into a meadow and we went back to the main trail and found the marked turnoff a kilometer or so later.
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| Mary's Meadow trail |
On the remaining bit of the loop trail, we both got stung by the same wasp. I got stung, yelled wasp! and then Caitlin got stung. We both got stung in almost the same spot on the calf.
Elapsed loop time including some stops and sidetracking was 5:30. Probably would've been 15 mins shorter if we had taken the correct turns :/
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