Elkford BC to Peter Lougheed Provincial Park, AB
Strava: 93.6 km, 1590m, 6:28, 443 shifts, 56 kph max
We had a pretty normal morning getting up, eating breakfast and packing in the campground. We headed out and right away the route went up an intricate set of singletrack trails. It was steep and twisty and fun to ride.
After a while we came out on a gravel road and took that for a long time. It was always gently climbing then for the last few km to Elk Pass, it turned steep. We entered Alberta at the pass, almost 2000m high with impressive mountain views in all directions.
The descent down to the park was short and steep and suddenly we came out on a paved road. It was called Kananaskis Lake Trail so we were surprised it was a paved road. It led us to the Trading Post which was crawling with people. We were able to get a “site” at the hiker/biker “campground” plus drinks and ice cream. We also got camping gas and a little more food for dinner.
It was eight km down to the campground, right on our route. The site had toilets, water, bear boxes but no tables. We set up and cooked dinner at a winter ski cabin nearby that had a couple of benches. The ranger came by to check on us and warned that this was now the overflow camping as every site in the park was full. We should expect tons of people camping in their cars very soon. Luckily that never happened. We went to bed early as the mosquitoes were quite active. I slept like a rock through a thunderstorm.
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