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Location:
Banff,
Banff National Park
Date:
August 7, 2000
Distance:
19.6 kilometers
Maximum Elevation:
2440 meters
Elevation Gain:
1037
meters
Time Required:
6.0 to 7.0
hours
Bourgeau Lake and Harvey Pass trail is one of the best day trips near the town of Banff. Despite an elevation gain of 1037 meters to the pass, it is still reachable for most hikers. The lake is an attractive body of water that lies in a small sub-alpine meadow. The scenery that justifies the effort is in the huge alpine amphitheatre that lies above and to the west of the lake.
The trail to Bourgeau Lake is straightforward. After the lake, the Harvey Pass trail begins a steep and strenuous ascent up the Bourgeau Lake inlet stream. A small lake at the top of the headwall marks the entry into a magnificent tarn-studded meadow. From this point, there are plenty of options for off-trail rambling, but the trail heads to the left and makes a short climb to another lake that lies just right before the summit of Harvey Pass. From the pass, the view offers a towering pyramid of Mount Assiniboine, Healy Creek and Sunshine Meadows, plus many other mountain ranges in the background.
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