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This was a great little hike and one that we highly recommend to someone looking for an easier hike, or a good "first hike of the season". The hike from the Heart Mountain trailhead to the junction where Quaite Valley trail meets Prairie View and Jewell Pass is about 12km round trip. If you want more, you can go up and back on Prairie View, or on Jewell Pass, or head back and do Heart Creek as an addition. The trail itself starts at Heart Mountain and heads west on the Quaite Creek montain bike trail, which is a continuation of the trail that comes from the Heart Creek Day Use parking lot. The trailhead is just a few feet before the yellow "scramble warning" sign for the Heart Mountain trailhead. Follow the Quaite Creek Trail to the junction where this trail ends. Here you will find a very wide, gravel trail which will take you 1.6km east to the Quaite Valley Backcountry Campground. Beyond the campground, the trail once again becomes a proper trail which takes you to the junction for Jewell Pass and Prairie View. This would also make a great beginner mountain bike route. Anyway, we had a really fabulous day, despite some disappointment when we first saw the wide gravel trail, but after the campground we found a lot of snow and iterated our thanks to Marty, Veronique and Jason for breaking trail for the rest of us wimps up to the trail junction. Because of the deep snow, we did not continue on Jewell Pass or Prairie View, but rather, stopped and had lunch and then headed back. Marty made the first COC snow-woman. Half of us did Heart Creek as an add-on, and some did the requisite Kilkenny add-on as well. -- Rhonda |
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