Distance: 15 km return
Elevation gain: 925 m
Tuesday, the second day of our hiking holiday, Marg, Doreen, Herm and I left our hostel at Field fairly early to travel to Glacier National Park to hike the Asulkan Valley trail. The weather was perfect and we anticipated a wonderful day.
The trail was beautiful, very walkable with different flowers all along. The first ones were red monkey flowers.
Higher up were bouquets of gentians.
All along the trail were spiky flowers ready to bloom. We could not find them in any of our flower books and suspect they don't grow in Alberta.
The trail started through the woods but soon opened up with views of mountains, the creek and waterfalls all along beside us.
Eventually we saw a steep moraine ahead of us with a trail on top. This brought us to the end of the trail.
We continued up a little further to an outhouse and hut where we rested and sheltered from the wind and brief rain storm.
Thankfully the dark weather didn't last long.
Soon we took off our coats again, looked at the trail down the valley below us and set out for a great hike back down.
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