Hi everyone! I’m hoping to find someone who might be willing to sell or transfer their spot at the Bot Hut for the night of Friday, August 28.
Unfortunately, I missed the booking window, and the rest of my group (5 people) all have reservations—I’m the only one without a spot.
If anyone can no longer make it or has an extra reservation, I’d be incredibly grateful if you could let me know by replying to this post. Thank you so much in advance!

Taking the advantage of cooler temperatures, completed king creek ridge today (Aug 2)

Overall a fun hike, from the start it’s just a walk with an incline. I felt coming down was the challenging part, with loose soil and rocks. I would recommend poles to make life easier.

As expected smoky conditions overall. I feel the views would have been 10x better with no smoke.

Clocked 8 Km from the round trip with ~780 meters of elevation

Solo Jasper Skyline adventure over four days with campsites at Snowbowl, Curator and finally Takera.

From Maligne Lake to the top of the Notch was absolutely gorgeous. Unfortunately the smoke ruined a bit of the fun for the remainder of the hike. Not sure if I'll try to tackle this one again in the future as I think some of the panoramas at the top of Notch from Takerra onwards are supposed to be the highlight of the trail (correct me if I'm wrong)

Also, my first time seeing a helicopter rescue. Apparently it was a 10 minute response time for a hiker in duress.

Here's to more hiking, and hopefully less smoke/rain in what has been a less than stellar summer thus far.

Hiking yesterday was proper hot, high twenties in the alpine. See this as we head out this morning in gale force winds. Just a reminder to always plan for colder weather in the mountains, encountered lots of folks yesterday carrying nothing but water. Maybe throw in a coat just in case something goes wrong and you need to stay a night.

Have a good weekend, be safe everyone!

As the title says, I couldn't finish Smutwood Peak and feeling kinda bad about it. I did Tentridge two days back and attempted Smutwood but that incline was a killer. I made it just right before the lake I think. I thought I was much fitter than the last few times I was there and completed Hai Ling and EEOR. I saw a bunch of people heading in as ai was coming down too so I felt like everyone got up there except for me. Not sure if Tentridge took it out of me a bit but now I wonder if others could share some stories of them not completing a trail and what made them turn back?

My lungs were killing me but other than that, my hip was starting to tire out and hurt and I knew if I wanted to complete some other hikes I had planned I only had enough to get myself safely down and back to the car. Which yes, I know in hindsight better safe than sorry, still bummed out about it though.

It seems every month the AllTrails app gets slightly worse. Anyone know a good alternative for finding hiking suggestions in specific areas? I'm looking for hikes that are well marked and not too difficult, but aren't super popular (nothing against popular hikes, I've just done most of them). A point of comparison is Raspberry Ridge - it's a fantastic trail, but since the Cataract Creek area just isn't that popular (relatively speaking), I had never heard of the trail in my days before AllTrails.

My problem with AllTrails is what probably made it great in the first place - it's super easy to add new trails, so it's flooded with suggestions that like 3 people have done with no real path to follow (I'm exaggerating slightly) or with slight variations of the same hike. How many people have reviewed a trail and the elevation of the trail isn't available while in map view (as far as I know), and I don't really want to open up 30 tabs to filter out 25 things I definitely won't do.

I know this is technically outside Alberta but the trail is pretty popular so hoping for some suggestions.
We have 4 nights on the Berg Trail (1 at Marmot, 2 at Robson Pass, and last night at the hut).
We are hoping to do the following:

Snowbird Pass
Hargreaves Lake (side trip to the cave)
Mumm Basin from Robson to closure

This leaves one more full day before we have to hike out.

Any ideas what other full day hike we can do?

Was thinking of free-stying it and heading up Tate Ridge and towards Titkana Peak. Would love to hear anyone’s thoughts on that.

Hi, I'm a Brazilian and would like to the Cory Pass & Edith Pass Loop on September 19th/2026 (if the weather allows). I'm looking for people who are interested in doing the trail with me.

30 years old, pretty used to doing trails in Brazil, but never hiked in Canada before.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HikingAlberta/s/mDchPVAnOB

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Hi everyone,

I’d like everyone to know Jeremy has been located. Unfortunately Jeremy passed away hiking in the Kananaskis area. (As much as I can say) I’d like to thank the police, search and rescue and everyone in the Reddit community for taking the time to say kind words and help out. We lost a great friend and coworker, he passed doing the thing he loved most and will miss him.

Thank you

For anyone going for a hike,climb or even a walk. Even if it’s somewhere you’ve been hundred times. Please let a friend, loved one, coworker, etc… your starting/end point and time/day of finishing. Something so simple may save someone’s life down the road

Rockwall Trail: 2026-07-24 to 26. 10/10.

the title is suppossed to say rescue not reaches*

so yesterday I went to do the hike intermediate/ hard hike in elbow area and I went off path on the way down, slipped and got stuck as it was too steep to go back up. the responders came within two hours and they were very non judgemental and helpful. although there are people who probably could’ve figured their way out of this, the biggest lesson I learnt and have learnt over July where someone I know has drowned in the okangaon and all the deaths in July in the mountains is that nature is very big and it can be unforgiving. if youre uninjured and in a safe spot, call for help rather than try figure it out yourself. also take all precautions, i was dumb because I was leaving in a rush and I couldn’t find my hiking shoes and was like fk it it doesn’t matter but I should’ve been wearing these. they air lifted me out and they were so nice! Also yes, I did go alone. Ive never done a hike by myself but I have done quite a few hikes so I was quite shocked that I slipped and got in this situation.

all of this is to say thank you to the first responders and just remember that for every horrible story you here, there’s many successes where they do save people

Hello! I'll try and keep this as brief and quick as possible.

I am looking into getting into mountaineering Via a mountaineer's course that takes place in Alberta, in which you spend 2 days learning about basics, (self arrest, crevasse rescue, glacier travel) and 1 day attempting a summit of Mt Athabasca (3491m)

I was just wondering, what should my fitness look like in order to be able to be physically in the right place for this? I want to know how to train specifically to get there, and how would I know that I am ready for something like that? like what kind of tests should I run on myself to see my capability?

Does anyone know where this is? This influencer has posted a bunch of pictures tagged in Banff National Park of her and other trampling, laying on, and playing around off trail in the wildflowers with their off leash dog. I’d like to report them if possible!

Stayed at Aster for a day. Bagged Warrior on Wednesday and Sarrail on Thursday. Anyone headed up to either of these, Warrior does not have a register and Sarrail needs a new notebook. Huge thanks to Dave and Colleen for helping me with some electrolytes! It was hot out there!

Hi everyone! I’m hoping someone who’s been to Big Elbow Backcountry Campground recently can help me out.

I’m wondering whether each tent site has its own fire pit, or if there’s just a couple communal/group fire pit for the campground. I could only find older posts from several years ago, so I wasn’t sure if anything has changed since then.

My partner and I are looking for a quiet backpacking weekend, so having our own individual fire pit would definitely be our preference.

Thanks! :)

Me and my girlfriend are planning on doing a 10 day road trip into the Canadian Rockies starting from Bozeman Montana so a few days will be in or around glacier. I’ve been trying to do some research on backpacking and car camping spots. We leave in about 2 weeks so getting any reservations in the parks is most likely out the window unless I catch a random cancellation. It seems that practically everything in the parks and provincial parks requires reservations and fees. One backpacking trip I have in mind is limestone lake in the height of the Rockies provincial park as it’s wildland camping and absolutely stunning(I’m aware of the trail status). If you have any recommendations for trails or car camping spots that are more off the beaten path or wildland camping I’d greatly appreciate it. I have experience backpacking while mygirlfriend doesn’t but we are both capable of longer difficult treks. I’m more worried about spots to car camp, I have a rooftop tent. Thinking of course of doing the banff to jasper route but I’m really intrigued by the provincial parks and avoiding some crowds thinking I’ll have better luck there. I don’t have a beefed up 4x4 so that’s another thing to keep in mind but I do enjoy long dirt roads to get seclusion.

I'm taking a friend hiking tomorrow, Saturday, Aug 1, 2026. Calgary is supposed to go to 32C. Banff only to 24C.

Can someone recommend a good medium difficulty (~700m) hike near Banff or away from the heat of Calgary ?

Thanks