It's kind of a tradition that on or near Canada Day Alex and I head out for some adventure or another, last year was Prince Rupert. This year we decided to go low key with a week long camping trip to Mount Robson Park in the Rockies.

This is the first in a short series of posts that describe our 2020 adventure.

The plan was to set up a base camp at Robson Meadows campsite and then do a series of day hikes to explore the park. We had previously hiked the Berg Lake Trail around 2010 and it seemed like a good opportunity to re-explore the park without the usual crush of foreign tourists.

I left Calgary on June 29th to get camp set-up at Mount Robson then planned to drive to Prince George on the 30th to pick up Alex. It was raining in Calgary when I left the city, but by the time I reached Yellowhead Pass west of Jasper on Highway 16 the sun was shining, so I managed to get the base camp set-up in the dry. Alex would help tweak things more to our liking upon his arrival.

The weather was good on the journey from Robson to Prince George but began to turn on the trip back to Mount Robson base camp. By the time we got back to Robson in the late afternoon the rain had begun. Rain that wouldn't stop for 3 1/2 days. In fact it rained every day we were there, but had reduced to showers for the last couple of days.

Alex was quick to employ his excellent base camp skills and carved us some drainage ditches with a camp stick to keep the tent and fire pit areas dry and also to shore up the tarps to weather the storm.

All good, we are well prepared for poor weather, and on July 1st we did a side trip to Hinton and Jasper for additional stove fuel and a larger tarp to expand the kitchen a little.

Generally we stuck to the original plan and managed some day trips to explore the Robson Valley, but decided to hold off on some of the hiking until we could return with hopefully drier weather.

The side adventures included trips to Dunster, Valemount, McBride, Reargurd Falls and Overlander Falls as well as the previously mentioned Jasper and Hinton AB. There will be additional posts on these side adventures.

Below are a few photographs of our base camp at Robson Meadows.

Enjoy!