I always wanted to explore the places where turquoise lakes flood the view, and where you climb so close to the sun that crumbling rocks replace the snow blankets of the top of the mountains. Now I can tick this off of my bucket list again.
I packed my 'stang and picked up already enthusiasm-boosted Sarka at hers only to find out that tonight we are not sleeping in a tent. Well what the heck. It's too heavy after all and climbing up the Black Tusk with an extra hand bag would be a pain, which I admit I didn't know back then.
So we get to the trailhead and set off for the hike. It's always hurting to get above the trailhead, it usually is dull overwhelming climb through the forest where you can't see much. Well apart from some wild animals that fortunately enough are friendly for today.
But once you get 'above the tree' level the views are rewarding and really motivating to make another 20k just by wandering around the meadows and climbing up the most spectacular viewpoints you have ever seen.
Sometimes the climbs are rough but with a little patience and determination it is feasible. Seeing the Black Tusk final climb almost makes me chicken out and go back. But that would be a mistake I'd regret far too much.
Being up there I'm about to shed a tear for what I see. Exactly what I wanted out of this hike. Turquoise lakes like little beautiful puddles somewhat a kilometre underneath us, snow blankets beneath the huge pile of crumbling volcanic rocks, and icebergs sliding down the 3k mountains in the seeming vicinity of us and at last sleeping underneath very scenic night sky without a single shelter-like gear. Only sleeping bag.
Having slept surprisingly well enough, the next day we set off for another expedition to have a closer look on that turquoise bad boy just under Panorama Ridge hike and him itself the Garibaldi Lake.
We walk around 40k in these 2 days but even though we are pretty knackered we just don't even seem to pay attention to it until we reach that tiresome trailhead extension which takes forever to descent. And after all that, you don't even wanna go down that road to reality again...
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And thanks to Sarka!!!
