Talk:Skyline Trail (Jasper National Park)

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There are at least two well-known skyline trails. The one mentioned here is in Jasper, but there is a second (also very popular) hiking trail called by the same name as part of the Cabot Trail. Hence, I feel that there maybe should be a disambiguation page for that name. Ericbodden (talk) 02:20, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There is a very well known Skyline Trail in Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom. The trail is a 46km purpose built cross country mountain bike trail. It can be found within the Afan Forest Park. Aberamanboy (talk) 07:26, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This came through today - not sure if any of this is useful to writers:

An excellent article, one small safety improvement. Starting from Maligne Lake and hiking (North West) when you come across the Watchtower Sign it has a arrow pointing approximately North East and says "Watchtower 4km" on the same sign it also stated "Maligne Road 14 km" with a 2nd arrow pointing in the same direction.

Here is the problem! Looking in the direction of the arrows (immediately behind the sign) there is a small scree covered hill, app. 100 to 200 meters high, very small scree and a very smooth hill ( just like a lawn ); but not the faintest sign of a trail. I walked up the hill 10 meters and came back down and my foot prints were very visible. Did some one turn the sign around?

Had on 2 pair of gloves but no mitts and fingers were freezing; winds were app 30 km / hr and gusting higher so kept using hiking poles but had to get off the ridge. Kept heading NW on the main trail and came to Wabassco Lake Junction, which I took, and a sign pointing back to where I came from to Watchtower Trail.

I am guessing, after the fact, that the winds are so strong up there that they keep covering any sign of a trail on that hill.

I have also reported this to the park rangers and they said they would look into it.

A further explanation in your article that the Watchtower Trail does in fact go up this deceiving smooth, trail less hill, just behind the sign might help some one else in the future, and a reminder to my self and others that mitts may be required up here in late summer!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdlrobson (talk • contribs) 18:05, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]