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Joseph Weston authored on 15/08/2021 20:27:58
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+title: Garibaldi Lake |
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+date: 2021-08-15 |
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+ - mountains |
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+ - hiking |
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+featuredImage: gallery/04-lake-selfie.jpg |
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+Another day hike from Vancouver, this time to try and escape the smoke! |
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+Garibaldi Lake is a very popular destination, probably related to the three (!) |
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+campsites that are available from the trailhead. |
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+In order to beat the crowds we decided to leave at 6am, however in the end |
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+we only got rolling by 6:30. Arriving at the car park at ~8am there were already |
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+a good quantity of cars (mainly from people already camping) and a queue for |
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+the pit toilets! Definitely leave early if you want to hike in the quiet. |
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+The trail is very well marked, and has a more or less constant gradient for |
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+the first two thirds, with the last third being flatter. |
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+One first arrives at Barrier Lake, which gives an idea of what is to come. |
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+Unfortunately the colour is not really visible in the photos, but the water is bright blue. |
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+Arriving at Garibaldi Lake itself, and after crossing Rubble Creek (where the GPX trace |
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+stops), the trail was completely submerged. I changed to my sandals and waded up to my knees, |
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+but Carolina had to leap from rock to rock to avoid wet feet. |
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+Arriving at the lake proper, we had some of our PB&J sandwiches before taking a refreshing |
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+dip in the water. Even though the lake is at more or less the same altitude as the Elfin Lakes, |
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+Garibaldi Lake is much warmer. We were not really able to swim properly in the Elfin lakes |
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+without getting very cold, but here we managed to spend ten or fifteen minutes in the water |
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+no problem. Perhaps Garibaldi Lake is more effective at trapping heat because it is larger? |
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+The hike back was predictably uneventful, but overall the trip was very much worth it, even |
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+if we could not entirely escape the smoke (see the photos!). |
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