Limestone Lakes Traditional Geocache
rdbeck: Cache had been removed - It appears to have been dug up and muggled away by the local marmot population (who steal everything they can find in the area)
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This Regular Cache is located at the Easternmost Limestone Lake in Height of the Rockies Provincial Park.
The Cache (and the lake) is at 2352 metres altitude.
17 km of hike at 1300m of elevation gain from the Joffre Creek
trailhead on the Kootenay-Palliser Forest Service road.
Limestone Lakes is definately an amazing place to visit, but bring your backpacking and routefinding skills.
The hike is described in "Hikes around Invermere and the Columbia Valley" by Matt Gunn and Aaron Cameron, ISBN 0-921102-53-4
This is a multi-day backpacking trip, and requires route finding skills to get there. The first 11 km of trail to Sylvan pass is maintained, after which you must ascend the ridge to the west of Sylvan pass, then south through a karst valley up a bench on the west side of the karst valley to a pass which descends to the Lakes. This is a difficult trip but
well worth it, If I were you I would plan on spending at least two nights at the lakes (there are more lakes to the west of the cache location). Most people will also need an additional night on the way there, I suggest camping in the meadows right before Sylvan pass to recover from the artery cleansing climb up the Joffre Creek trail so you can enjoy the fun stuff while fresh. You can make it out from the Lakes to the trailhead in a long day.
This cache is probably in one of the most amazing places in the Rockies. Please be safe getting there, Respect all BC parks rules, and please Leave No Trace.
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