Trip Date: August 2007
Every year on our way to and from the
Shuswap we have to drive through Roger's Pass and
Glacier National Park. It is a beautiful part of the country and I've always wanted to go camping there. In late August of 2007, Christine and I decided to head out and do just that! We decided to set up our tent in the
Illecillewaet Campground, which is about 345km west of
Calgary along the Trans-Canada Highway in Glacier National Park. It is a beautiful campground and I would highly recommend it to anyone wishing to camp in the area.
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| Our camp site in Illecillewaet Campground |
While we were there we also got out and enjoyed a short interpretive trail at the neighboring campground; Loop Brook Campground. The
Loop Brook Interpretive Trail is only about 1.8km in length, but it takes you through a section of the old railway that once looped through Roger's Pass. It showcases the stone trestle pillars that once carried the railway high above the valley. Between the valley bottom and the summit of Roger's Pass, the original Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) line made many continuous loops to soften the grade and avoid the worst avalanche slopes. The total curvature of these loops actually equaled seven complete circles. The stone pillars are among the oldest surviving man-made structures in western Canada.
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| Christine reading about a collapsed stone pillar |
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| Loop Brook Interpretive Trail |
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| Chris with Mt. Bonney in the background |
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| CPR stone trestle pillars |
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| The remains of a collapsed snow shed |
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| Stone trestle pillars |
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| Stone pillars |
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| Christine and I |
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