Best Hikes in Alberta (near Calgary of course)?

[hockeyhuman]

I am hoping to do a couple of more hikes before the snow and maybe one or two in winter, but where would you suggest going?

[Chingyul]

What are you looking for?
What have you done?

My suggestion would be a good larch hike in the next couple weeks (probably avoid Larch Valley/Sentinel Pass though unless you plan to be there for 6:30).

[uofaflamesfan]

https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=129186

Some good info in here

[GGG]

Definately need more info

How long in hours or distance
How much elevation have you hiked before
How far are you willing to drive.

[keratosis]

Check out Sheep River Provincial park. Goes from expert to novice and beautiful country to boot.

[Wormius]

How long?

Barrier Fire Lookout, Moose Mtn aren’t too long distance and elevation wise.

Larches can be found everywhere, avoid Larch Valley and just go to Kananaskis.

[Minnie]

Check out the "Hiking With Barry" blog. He's got info on every local hike, degree of difficulty and elevation change, and directions on how to get to them, and so on. Decent resource.

[hockeyhuman]

Originally Posted by Chingyul

What are you looking for?
What have you done?

My suggestion would be a good larch hike in the next couple weeks (probably avoid Larch Valley/Sentinel Pass though unless you plan to be there for 6:30).

Awesome! I'll look it up!

I've done Ribbon Falls up to the lake above it and Hai Ling and a Grotto Canyon(too easy) and a couple of others that I forget the names of!

I enjoy a little bit of a challenge with nice views or lakes or waterfalls haha

[hockeyhuman]

Originally Posted by Wormius

How long?

Barrier Fire Lookout, Moose Mtn aren’t too long distance and elevation wise.

Larches can be found everywhere, avoid Larch Valley and just go to Kananaskis.

Awesome! I'll look them up, perhaps those would be good hangover hikes haha.

I do love a challenge on most days or day long ones!

[hockeyhuman]

Originally Posted by GGG

Definately need more info

How long in hours or distance
How much elevation have you hiked before
How far are you willing to drive.

I enjoy anything above 6km round trip up to 18km round trip!

The most challenging hike I've done is Hai Ling.

I'd be willing to drive up to two hours.

If it ends with a lake or waterfall that is BEST! Except I always seem to fail to find those ones haha

[hockeyhuman]

Originally Posted by keratosis

Check out Sheep River Provincial park. Goes from expert to novice and beautiful country to boot.

Excellent! Will look that up!

[Scroopy Noopers]

Marble Canyon off Hwy 93 is awesome.

[Deegee]

I know it was mentioned already, but another vote for Moose Mountain. It is a great hike and close to Calgary. It's likely one of my favorites.

You should download the All Trails app for your phone. You login with Facebook I think, and you can search and filter trail results based on criteria. You can also maintain lists of trails you want to do and ones you have completed, etc.

While it doesn't have every trail out there, it's a great app.

[troutman]

Just don't throw rocks off the mountain.


https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/could-...tain-1.4068459

[OMG!WTF!]

This one was pretty yesterday...the ridge above Rae lake....

Spoiler!

If you do Moose Mountain (aka Brokeback Meadows) why not do some of the other Brokeback spots around kananaskis....


http://www.findingbrokeback.com/New_...n_1_Frame.html

[GGG]

Originally Posted by hockeyhuman

I enjoy anything above 6km round trip up to 18km round trip!

The most challenging hike I've done is Hai Ling.

I'd be willing to drive up to two hours.

If it ends with a lake or waterfall that is BEST! Except I always seem to fail to find those ones haha

For Larch Season (last 2 weeks of September / 1st week of October) I would do Healy Pass. The Hike Starts and Ends and the Sunshine Parking lot.

Option 1 for the hike is to just hike up Healy Creek to Healy pass and back. This is about 18km round trip with 650 elevation gain. The first 5km is through boring forest though. So I recommend option 2 as the best larch season day hike.

Option 2. Take the Sunshine meadows bus up to the sunshine ski area, then hike over Simpson pass, up Healy pass, then back out healy creek. This is about 18k or so as well with a little less elevation gain. More importantly its all right at the tree line except for the last 5km. You can also add a quick tour of Rock Isle lake while you are in sunshine meadows. Bus runs during the week for $36 but if you say you are hiking down its only $30 or on weekends the Gondola runs and its $45. You have to reserve a spot as during larch season it fills up as they have a max number of people allowed to go each day which prevents the Larch Valley hoards.

For an Easy Larch hike I like Ptarmigan Cirque on Highway 40. Its only 6.5 k round trip with about 200 elevation. So only about 2hrs.

For non Larch season a great and easy hike is Bow Glacier falls, It features both a lake and a water fall. About 12k round trip with only 200m elevation maybe. It starts at bow lake on the icefields parkway. You walk around Bow Lake then climb up a canyon and hike along a moraine to the base of the falls. You can get right up to the falls. (there is also a trial up to Bow Glacier on top of the falls which is a neat hike but more difficult and has on exposed section where you cross a choke stone over a canyon.) Its about half an hour past Lake Louise so just over your 2hrs.

[Slacker]

Not sure if this falls under this thread, but have someone hiked Sulphur Mountain very recently? I plan to go there this Sunday and I'm curious to see if it's open.

Thanks!

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by Slacker

Not sure if this falls under this thread, but have someone hiked Sulphur Mountain very recently? I plan to go there this Sunday and I'm curious to see if it's open.

Thanks!

https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/tcond/cond_E.asp?oPark=100092

[undercoverbrother]

https://10hikes.com/canada/kananaski...n-summit-hike/

I love Mount Allan.

On a clear day you can see Calgary, Canmore and Banff.

[Magnum PEI]

Frozen Lake is a good one. Most people do Rawson but Frozen is a better hike IMO.
Junction Falls is probably the best easy hike within an hour drive of the city.

For winter I usually just stick to Elbow valley hikes. Can usually get up Prairie Mountain without spikes.