McBride & Robson Valley / Elevation sheet
Eagle Valley Cabin
- Round trip
- 18 km
- Elevation gain
- Approx. 690 m Terrain-model estimate; not a surveyed measurement.
- Walking time
- 6 - 8 hours
- Difficulty
- Hard There and Back
return to cabin; 9 km one way
Elevation along the outing
Full round trip
Start: Published 2026 Eagle Valley trip start on the old-road approach · Turn around: Eagle Valley Cabin (8.9 km) · Finish: Published 2026 Eagle Valley trip start on the old-road approach (17.8 km mapped).
Approximate ground elevation from a 90 m terrain model. Distance follows the mapped itinerary and may differ from published walking distance. This is a terrain-model profile, not a surveyed measurement. Any ascent total is identified separately with its own source or estimation method.
How the route order was checked
The local tourism description identifies roughly 3 km on a deactivated logging road before the valley footpath, followed by approximately 6 km to the cabin. The former map contained only that footpath. Fresh OSM data retain a separately named Eagle Valley Trail road segment with an exact shared endpoint at the footpath start. Its vertex 1 lies about 9 m from the independently published EagleValley2026 trip-start coordinate, and the cabin endpoint exactly touches the named alpine-hut building. The road walk and footpath are therefore one continuous cabin outing with a retraced return. The track-start fact does not establish the exact porcupine enclosure or certify current vehicle access. Glacier travel beyond the cabin is excluded.
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/542666811. Sampled and rounded for display.
Source: https://open-meteo.com/en/licence
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: out-and-back outing from Published 2026 Eagle Valley trip start on the old-road approach to Eagle Valley Cabin and back; 17.81 km along the mapped itinerary
Copernicus DEM 2021 GLO-90 via Open-Meteo (90 m resolution). v7-smoothed-ascent-1: interpolate retained terrain samples at 100 m spacing; apply one triangular 1:2:1 smoothing pass over ±100 m; preserve start, finish and documented turnaround heights; sum uphill excursions with a 5 m reversal threshold; round to nearest 10 m.
Approximate terrain-model ascent, not a field or GPS measurement. Coarse cells and smoothing can miss small climbs, switchbacks, structures and sharp terrain. Processing sensitivity is not a statistical confidence interval.
Sources checked 2026-10-19.
Measurement notes
9 km to cabin
550 m
The cabin is approximately 9 km one way, or 18 km return.
The previously imported 550 m ascent is not present in the exact retained club page or McBride tourism guide. Total ascent for the cabin outing remains unverified.