Stanley Mitchell Hut, Iceline Summit, Yoho Lake, Emerald Lake

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(Canadian Rockies) Route on 10/3/2015; 17 km; +370 -1060; 6 hours. Excursion organized with the following itinerary: Stanley Mitchell Hut, Iceline Summit, Yoho Lake, Emerald Lake. Participants: Anna, Esther, Josep i Miquel; guide: Hugo. Output type: linear crossing; Difficulty: moderated (by descent).

FOUR YEARS: In Quebec, two referendums on independence were convened: in the years 1980 and 1995. In both cases, the majority voted against independence, in the first case by 60% and in the second by 50, 8%.

Tonight the refuge was full, but we have slept very well. In the morning, the day is colder than yesterday because it has snowed a little early in the morning and this is evident when going out.

We pass by the wooden bridge (a footbridge) of the river and we are oriented towards the south. Today we will not return to the refuge and we will go to sleep again in the hostel where we had been in the first days.

The path, by forest and in the south, is whitewashed by the snow that has fallen.
By the zone of the PN Yoho it passes the train that goes of east to west of Canada. Regarding the construction of the train, it is necessary to explain an especially interesting anecdote. The president of the company was very happy about completing its railway line, but in 1886 that happiness was tempered by the enormous problems in the place known as the Kicking Horse Pass. There, there is a hill named Big Hill that is just over five kilometers long, but it forced a steep gradient so strong that the first trains began to have accidents and disasters.

We leave above the forest, the path goes through open space with views of the Wapta glacier and the Wapta Mountain. In order to conclude the problem of the train it is necessary to add that almost a quarter of a century later, the line was modified since the engineers found the solution. They built two tunnels in a spiral across two kilometers of rock ... ...

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