{"id":1546,"date":"2015-08-29T08:10:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T14:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2019-03-16T11:08:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T17:08:11","slug":"takakkaw-falls-yoho-national-park-british-columbia-canada-7-25-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/?p=1546","title":{"rendered":"Takakkaw Falls, Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada (7-25-13)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Takakkaw Falls parking lot\u00a0is at the end of\u00a0Yoho Valley Road about 14 km from Trans-Canada Hwy 1.\u00a0 Yoho Valley Road is accessed from Trans-Canada Hwy 1 a few miles NE of the little community of Field along the Kicking Horse River.\u00a0 Yoho Valley Road is paved, but has a couple of exceptionally sharp hairpin curves.\u00a0 Taking long vehicles (motorhomes, trailers) up this road is inadvisable.<\/em><\/p>\n

The morning after Lupe’s big day going from Emerald Lake all the way up to the high point of the Iceline Trail<\/a><\/span><\/strong> in Yoho National Park, SPHP didn’t have any concrete plans for the day.\u00a0 SPHP thought maybe Lupe could go check out the Lake O’Hara area.\u00a0 Neither Lupe nor SPHP had ever been there before, and Lake\u00a0O’Hara has a fabulous reputation.\u00a0 There were plenty of trails to explore\u00a0in the area, too.<\/p>\n

After breakfast at a picnic area along the Bow Parkway, Lupe and SPHP headed back into British Columbia on Trans-Canada Hwy No. 1.\u00a0 When Lupe and SPHP left Hwy 1 and got on the road to Lake O’Hara, it\u00a0ended almost immediately at a couple of large parking lots filled with cars.\u00a0 A sign said access to was restricted to\u00a0a shuttle bus ride (none in sight and bound to be expensive) or\u00a0walking 13+ km (all uphill)\u00a0to where the shuttle bus drop off point was.\u00a0\u00a0 Lupe may have had it in her, but after the previous long day, SPHP\u00a0did not want to hike uphill that far just to get to a starting point.<\/p>\n

Instead,\u00a0Lupe and SPHP\u00a0went to Takakkaw Falls.\u00a0 On the previous day, Lupe and SPHP had spectacular distant views of the falls from the Highline and Iceline trails.<\/p>\n

\"Takakkaw<\/a>
Takakkaw falls from the Iceline Trail the previous day (July 24th).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This time, Lupe was going to get up close and view the mighty Takakkaw Falls from below.\u00a0\u00a0It was a\u00a0short walk from the parking lot to a very nice footbridge over the Yoho River.\u00a0 An easy\u00a0trail led\u00a0to the base of the falls.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The great footbridge across the Yoho River leading to Takakkaw Falls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to Wikipedia, the highest point of Takakkaw Falls is 302 meters or 991 feet above its base, although there is really only 260 meters or 850 feet of true free-fall.\u00a0 Now matter how one looks at it, Takakkaw Falls is an impressive waterfall, especially on a hot summer day when the Daly Glacier (an arm of the Waputik Icefield) that feeds it is melting fast.<\/p>\n

\"Lupe<\/a>
Lupe below Takakkaw Falls in Yoho National Park in British Columbia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Takakkaw<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Lupe<\/a>
Lupe enjoys the cool mist at the base of Takakkaw Falls on a hot summer day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lupe and SPHP took the trail up to just below the\u00a0base of the falls.\u00a0 The cool mist\u00a0felt great.\u00a0\u00a0The G6 had said it was 79 degrees F already back at the parking lot.\u00a0 The clear sunny day was going to be a scorcher by Canadian Rockies standards.<\/p>\n

Refreshed by the cool mist, SPHP temporarily\u00a0felt inspired to take Lupe up the Yoho River valley.\u00a0 Perhaps Lupe could go up to the Yoho Glacier or climb back up to the fabulous Iceline Trail again by another route?\u00a0 There were plenty of trails to explore, but they involved a lot of elevation gain.<\/p>\n

Although\u00a0Lupe and SPHP started up the Yoho River valley, it was not to be.\u00a0 Away from the cooling spray of\u00a0Takakkaw Falls,\u00a0SPHP\u00a0soon started to wilt under the hot sun.\u00a0 Lupe had the energy and enthusiasm to go on, but despite the glorious scenery\u00a0SPHP did not.\u00a0 SPHP’s sore feet and hot perspiring body\u00a0clamored for an\u00a0easier day.\u00a0 Maybe it was time to move on and go\u00a0see something different; something that wasn’t going to involve so much up.<\/p>\n

So\u00a0Lupe and SPHP\u00a0turned around shortly after starting on the trail up the Yoho River valley.\u00a0 Returning to the G6, SPHP drove drove back to Lake Louise Village. There SPHP gassed up the G6 to full\u00a0before heading N on the Icefields Parkway, Hwy 93.\u00a0\u00a0Lupe and SPHP enjoyed a\u00a0pleasant air conditioned drive up to Bow Lake.\u00a0 SPHP knew there was a beautiful trail with only modest elevation gain from the lake to Bow Glacier Falls.<\/p>\n

\"Bow<\/a>
Bow Lake in Banff National Park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A trail without a lot of elevation gain to another cool waterfall sounded like just the ticket.\u00a0 SPHP did have the energy to do that.\u00a0 Which is why Lupe’s next post will be about her successful journey to see Bow Glacier Falls.<\/p>\n

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The Takakkaw Falls parking lot\u00a0is at the end of\u00a0Yoho Valley Road about 14 km from Trans-Canada Hwy 1.\u00a0 Yoho Valley Road is accessed from Trans-Canada Hwy 1 a few miles NE of the little community of Field along the Kicking Horse River.\u00a0 Yoho Valley Road is paved, but has a couple of exceptionally sharp hairpin … Continue reading Takakkaw Falls, Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada (7-25-13)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[76],"tags":[105,30,31,106,26,104,240,58],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2013-beartoothscanadian-rockies","tag-american-dingo","tag-canada","tag-canadian-rockies","tag-carolina-dog","tag-dingo-vacations","tag-lupe","tag-takakkaw-falls","tag-yoho-national-park"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventuresoflupe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1050091.jpg?fit=1651%2C1238&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20791,"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions\/20791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventuresoflupe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}