McBride & Robson Valley / Partial elevation sheet
Avalanche Valley / Cariboo Lake
- Round trip
- 28.48 km
- Elevation gain
- Calculated 1,357 m Calculated from the source’s outward ascent and descent. Conditional on retracing exactly the recorded endpoints and path. Source GPS statistics may contain error. Damaged-road approach walking is additional; its distance and climbing are not established. The alternative Kristi traverse is a different route.
- Walking time
- Unconfirmed
- Difficulty
- Hard Out and back backpacking
14.24 km each way for the recorded historical trailhead–lake route. The 28.48 km retraced return excludes additional, unmeasured walking from road closures or washouts.
https://hikingprincegeorge.com/hikes/avalanche-valley-cariboo-lake
Partial elevation profile
Partial elevation profile
This chart covers only part of the route. It does not establish the full hike or a return journey.
11.88 km along source section 1 of 1, in its mapped direction.
Approximate 90 m terrain model along this mapped section. Separate sections are not joined. This chart does not measure total trail ascent or establish current access; use the guide’s published outing measurements.
Copernicus GLO-90 terrain elevations via Open-Meteo (CC BY4.0); linework: Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0
Copernicus DEM 2021 GLO-90 via Open-Meteo. Linework source: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/542667186. Sampled and rounded for display.
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Licence: CC BY4.0 elevation data; Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0 linework · https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Profile source checked: 2026-10-18
How the elevation gain was established
Outing: Recorded historical trailhead–Avalanche Pass–Caribou Lake route, returning along the same path; road-access walking excluded
This total is calculated from explicitly published measurements for the stated route and return. Other starting points or turnarounds can produce different climbing totals.
For a retraced track, return ascent equals outward descent. Add the source’s 904 m outward ascent and 453 m outward descent: 1,357 m for the recorded return. The corresponding recorded length is 2 × 14.24 km = 28.48 km. This is arithmetic on published track statistics, not a newly surveyed or modelled track.
Conditional on retracing exactly the recorded endpoints and path. Source GPS statistics may contain error. Damaged-road approach walking is additional; its distance and climbing are not established. The alternative Kristi traverse is a different route.
Sources checked 2026-10-19.