Healy Pass
I hiked up Healy Creek, over Healy Pass to Egypt Lake, and camped there 3 nights. It's a steady 15km climb up to Healy pass and down to the Egypt lake campground. It a beautiful area right in the middle of the Rockies with mountains all around - close to the great dividing line.
View East from Healy Pass back towards the trailhead at the Sunshine ski area - Mt. Assiniboine is poking its summit up in the distance
View West from Healy Pass towards Egypt lake, Ball range, and the Pharoh Peaks
Egypt Lake Campground
Canadian campgrounds are well thought-out - mandatory pre-booking keeps the numbers down and tent sites are located in the trees with no direct view of any other tent site. Food storage and cooking areas are 300-400m away from the tent sites to reduce bear risks.
My last night at Egypt Lake (the last Tuesday before Labour Day
weekend) was the first snow of the season although it melted one day
later.
Shadow Lake Hike
Using Egypt lake as a base, I made a day hike over Whistling Pass, down to Haiduk lake then Shadow lake (28km return from Egypt lake - so it's a long day - probably better to backpack all the way to Shadow Lake and stay overnight then go on to Twin lakes.)
Whistling Pass and the Marmots
It's supposedly called Whistling Pass because
of the Marmots whistling out to each other across the pass - and there
were Marmots all over. They are quite bold with one of them coming right
up within 5m. They are larger than I expected - this one below the size
of a cat on steroids - the size of a smallish dog.
The trail to Shadow Lake runs along-side Haiduk Lake through alpine meadow.
Scarab and Mummy Lakes Hike
Scarab and Mummy lakes are a short hike away
from the Egypt lake campground.
View from Mummy Lake south down towards Verdant Creek