Backpacking Tours of Canadian Rockies Mount Robson Provincial Park

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Canadian Rockies Backpacking Tour in Mount Robson

Mount Robson's location in the Canadian Rockies is just 80 km west of Jasper, Alberta National Park and is the highest mountain tour in the Canadian Rockies. Rising 3954 m high (3000 m from the valley floor), Mount Robson is comprised of sedimentary rocky mountain bedrock that is flat lying, which cannot be eroded by glaciers near as quickly as the sloping layers of bedrock.

Mount Robson was believed to be named after Colin Robertson, an officer in the Hudson's Bay Company, in 1820. The Shuswap Indians of the Canadian Rockies area refer to the mountain as “Yuh-hai-has-kun”, which means “the mountain of the spiral road to heaven”. Touring the Canadian Rockies' Mount Robson truly will make you feel that way.

Mount Robson is the Monarch of the Canadian Rockies

Rockies touring on July 31, 1913; an Austrian guide, Conrad Kain and his two clients, Albert MacCarthy and William Foster, were the first people to climb the rockies Mount Robson.

Canada's Robson Glacier

A multi-day canadian rockies backpacking tour at Mount Robson is 21 km one-way with an elevation tour gain of 788 m. The mountains' trailhead starts at Berg Lake and follows the Robson River to Kinney Lake, through to the Canadian Rockies Valley of a Thousand Falls, past Emperor Falls and again ending at Berg Lake. There are numerous campsites along this great rocky mountain tour route.

Along this tour trail, you can expect to see beautiful turquoise lakes. The spectacular colour results from the glaciers finely grounding our canadian rockies material. There is also a micro rainforest along the Robson River with trees such as the Douglas fir, cedar, spruce and hemlock. Hoary marmots (large member of the squirrel family) are also common along the trail to Berg Lake.