F205-85-79 - "Loading pack horses at a camp in Black Tusk meadows"

Without horses, BC Mountaineering Club summer camps may not have been feasible. With so many supplies to take for a large group for two or more weeks, horses were the only way to get everything they needed to the site. Even carrying one tent canvas to the site would have been heavy and bulky, let alone several tents, and all the food, blankets and equipment needed.

And with sites such as this one at Black Tusk meadows being approximately 1700 metres (~5500 feet) in elevation, these camps were a long trek to get there. Year unknown.

• Camping

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Fonds 205

• Black Tusk

Estelle Gilbert collection