Hey guys welcome back to the channel, today me and Cayleigh are hiking into Floe
Lake in Kootenay National Park. The trail is
about 10.7 kilometers one way and I think about 950 meters
of elevation so it's definitely a little bit- a lot more elevation than
our hike last weekend into marvel lake. We both had to work today and then it
was about a two hour drive to the trailhead so our biggest goal is to
get there before dark tonight
David's dying to see a bear, he just keeps like scoping the ridges over here
I could probably go without seeing a bar... a bar?
I could go with seeing a bar too if that's what we're talking about
A nice back country bar. Bars, yes... bears questionable. It's whiskey time
So we're coming up on what i'm hoping is the final ascent into floe lake the rest
of the hike has been really beautiful um fairly manageable we
had a little bit of rain but now it's a beautiful hiking evening
You might be wondering why all the trees are burnt in
the background and there was a massive forest fire
about 15 years ago 15 to 20 years ago and it burned through
this whole valley and this is the first time me and Cayleigh
have actually done a hike like this through an old forest fire and it's uh
it's pretty incredible to see all the new growth
that's come back, the wildflowers are incredible
and uh it's amazing how open everything is instead of the usual hike that we
would do that begins with walking through a
forest with hardly any views so it's been quite
a treat for us
it's a grind you probably gain like half the elevation of the hike in the
last kilometer, it's just constant switchbacks
all the way up yeah but we're probably two thirds of
the way up getting close
it's 9 30. you can see the sun's kind of starting to fade behind us
hopefully we can make it.
So we just rolled in the camp
um it's 10 o'clock yeah this is the lake which we'll show you much more tomorrow
yes everyone's sleeping uh we think we're the last people here
probably so we're gonna go try to find our campsite the one and only one
probably yeah we found one so we're gonna set up camp
and then probably get in the tent because it's
starting to rain harder
so it started down pouring like the second that we got
the top on our tent so we pretty much just had a granola bar and came right to
bed um we're hoping for less rain tomorrow
nighty night!
Morning guys so it's day two here um we are gonna try and hike up to numa
pass and get a nice viewpoint of the lake
today and then hopefully do some relaxing i'm gonna grab my fly rod i'm
sure Cayleigh's gonna set up the hammock and we're just gonna spend the afternoon
chilling out and soaking up these nice views
So typical hike with David... no trails involved
um but we found this awesome viewpoint of Floe lake!
We're back in our favorite spot pretty much i spent the whole afternoon here
had snooze, read my book, David went fishing... quite unsuccessful.
There`s no fish in this lake, thats what I determined.
So now we're just having some rum and a beer, and were going to have some supper!
Neither of us slept very well last night um we didn't get to bed until like 12 or
1 o'clock so it's currently 8 pm and we are hitting hay
Nighty night
All right day 3 here uh we slept in again this morning which was really nice
and i'm just it's never getting old waking up
to this view
it rained a little bit last night i think we're just gonna make some
breakfast and might hang out for a little bit
and then start the hike back we're excited because it's going to be
all downhill the whole way which is my personal favorite kind of hiking
so we're packing up um we're sad to be leaving
we just decided this is probably our favorite i don't want to go yeah
yeah it's so pretty we also if you come here and you can get the first spot
hiking in from the highway do it in the best spot in the house
it's off the left side
the only spot with a view like this
all right so we're almost back in the car
it only took us about two two and a half hours to get down which
is super quick um that elevation gained we just flew
down
the weather's been really nice too on our way up it took us
just under four hours to get up
yeah which is pretty nice but you can see the highway now so
getting close to the finish line
made it!
all right thanks for watching we're all done we would highly recommend this hike
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summer yeah see you in the next one see you next week!