Distance: 16 km return
Elevation gain: 472 m
Monday, August 4, a nice morning but thunderstorms forecast for later in the day so we decided to hike Burstall Pass instead of Tent Ridge for safety sake. Harry and Tena were in agreement with this plan.
The trail starts up an old road, wide enough for comfortable group conversation.
After a few kilometres of this, we reached the alluvial flats, glacier melt. It was a fun challenge to pick our way through the most shallow streams and then use our poles to help us vault over.
On the return, after the rain, the water was higher (or we couldn't find the better trail) and we landed in the streams many times. Fortunately, it was a nice day and our feet didn't get cold just prune-like.
After the water, we climbed and climbed through trees to this valley, a beautiful,open level area for lunch.
Many mountain peaks could be seen and admired from our lunch on the rocks.
The next barren section makes me think of moon landscape and was very startling the first time I hiked this trail.
We continued on up to the pass and explored for a bit but soon the clouds and thunder encouraged us to start back down.
It did rain, we put on our ponchos and continued walking and enjoying all the variety the trail offered.
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