To The Mountains I Go: Indefatigable

Day Hike
Distance: 4.5km (one way)
Height Gain: 762m
High Point: 2225m
Time: 3.5-4 hours
Difficulty: Hard

Access:
Take Kananaskis Trail (hwy 40) from Trans Can hwy, and follow it down. Turn right onto Kananaskis Lakes Trail hwy. Follow that road till the very end and park there. Mount Indefatigable is the mountain right in between the two Kananaskis Lakes. Walk across till you see a big sign about bears and go past it and head up the mountain.

Experience:
I haven't done a big steep hike in a while so this was a very good choice to make because it was quite steep for more than half the hike. There was a ranger type lady warning people about the large number of bears in this area and to keep our bear spray ready. That was a little startling but we went anyways! Bishop Swiheart had done this hike a few times so I wasn't afraid of anything bad happening to us.

We trudged along up the mountain, and it was steeper than I imagined. Because of this we did get to a nice view pretty fast. We stopped at a little nub and snacked and took pictures of the two big lakes. It was beautiful! We continued up the path and it got less steep! I was really happy about that because I had a hard time keeping up to the Swiheart's and their dog Charlie.

Just before we made it to the lake there was fields full of flowers!!!! My favorite! I could have stayed there for a while taking pictures of every single flower but I just took a few. There was also a little stream just below us so I went down there and got a picture of this stream coming straight from the ground! We then continued on after taking many pictures to the little hidden lake. Everywhere we turned in that area our eyes were only filled with the beauty of the Earth. It was gorgeous.

This hike is one of my top 3 hikes of this summer so far. The hike down was a little difficult because there was lots of places to slip and fall, but we all made it down safely in the end.