MOOSE RIVER / MOUNT ROBSON PARK ... SNARING RIVER / JASPER NATIONAL PARK

Day Three
On Day Three we will pack up and ride across the Moose Valley to our new base camp in Upright Creek. We are already here and the urge to continue deeper into this wonderful wilderness becomes very apparent.

 

 

 

 

 


 
 

 

 

 

 
Saddling up you will appreciate how one is attracted to the beauty of these mountains, but the peacefulness will entice you to stay.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
Day Four
After a good feed of grain your powerful mountain horse will carry you up to the alpine, past azure lakes and across the Continental Divide.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From here we have access to the most remote region of Jasper National Park, as we ride the high country over the Continental Divide . Few have had the opportunity to experience this rugged area where man is virtually unknown.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
This is Caribou, Mountain Goat and Grizzly country. One can spend weeks in this place and still only see a portion of it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day Five
Today we will pack up returning across the marshlands of the Moose Valley to our Resplendent Creek camp. Day Six we will head out to the trailhead and Valemount.

 

 
It becomes difficult to describe this place, and for that matter the whole of Canada's Mountain Parks. Even pictures fail to capture what one experiences surrounded by pure nature. Horses are tradition here and this place will likely claim your heart and soul, as with those who came before us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day Six
Sid Marty probably describes it best as a feeling, in his book "Men for the Mountains", about the Parks' Warden Service. "...where only the wind could touch them, and where the world was free of pain and sorrow, and we were always young!" We will spend the morning relaxing, as we take our time preparing for our ride out to the trailhead.