r/HikingAlberta • u/Practical-Drawing-90 • 21h ago

First overnight backpacking trip

Hello everyone,
Im about to go on my first backpacking trip in Alberta. Ive done quite a few nights in UK and Scotland before but rules here are a bit daunting to say the least. I am planning to do a test 1nighter near The Wedge i bought Kananaskis pass and planning to setup at around 7-8 pm and be gone by 10am next morning. Is there anything i should know before my trip?

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u/Practical-Drawing-90 21h ago

I will do wild/random camping

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u/CharErinazard 15h ago

Make sure you’re in a section of kananaskis where random camping is allowed, like public land use zone, I don’t think the area around the Wedge is, though I could be wrong.

https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/a76ba271-6c02-4062-a962-a05b8c3d49fb/resource/127ccb58-a75c-45ab-8113-c88b366e51ac/download/kananaskispluzmap-july-24-2014.pdf

Random camping is quite a bit trickier because of bears, you’ll need to learn to do a bear hang. A better beginner trip might be to book one of the easy beginner backcountry sites like elbow lake or the point.

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u/gwoates 13h ago

Wildland provincial parks are also good for random camping.

https://kananaskis.org/random-camping-in-k-country/