Route: from the trailhead car park, following advice on the web and running clockwise, taking the most westerly variant of trail 3 through aspen woods into Douglas Fir along a valley bottom past Marjorie Lake and Caledonia Lake. Approaching the turn off for Minnow Lake and with steepening path, reducing to a walk whilst gaining the main elevation through denser damper woodland before reaching the midpoint at the turn off for High Lakes campsite. Then generally downhill for 5km to the Saturday Night Lake campsite and shortly after an encounter with slow moving horse traffic before Cabin Lake and a descent to the trailhead.
Conditions: some sun glinting through the trees but mainly, fortunately, cloudy.
Pub: the Jasper Brewing Co, Jasper, for Liftline Cream Ale, Sutter Hill Pil and a taster of the weekly Friday special - this week vanilla stout.
