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==Excerpt from the report at the BC EAO== ''(see links below):''
==Rules==


Note public input period is extended until Nov 15th 2004
# All backcountry skiing or snowshoeing parties must register at the new Day Lodge in the morning to get a special parking pass. This pass will allow you to park overnight, and/or leave through the gate after normal hours. The parking pass is free.
 
# There is a $6 per person fee if you want to use the XC trails for backcountry access. To qualify you must be on AT or Tele gear (no skinny XC skis). For safety, you must follow the same rules as XC skiers on one way trails. If you want to ski the backcountry around Madeley Lake, this is the best way to get there.
Sea to Sky Winter Backcountry Recreation Forum Scenario - Successful Vancouver 2010 Olympic Bid
#If you want to access the backcountry without using the groomed XC trails, there is no fee. However, you still have to sign a waiver and get the parking pass. Please be careful when crossing XC ski trails and always yield to XC skiers. There are 3 suggested BC access routes that minimize XC trail crossings: from the daylodge climb the hill north of the ski jump to Hanging Lake or Sproatt, from the biathlon parking skirt the XC trails heading east to Hanging Lake, or from the biathlon parking drop down a short hill to the west and turn up Beverley Creek. I'll be working on signage for these routes during the winter, but for now there is nothing (contact me if you want to help). During competitive events, one or more of these routes may be closed. Be sure to check with staff at the Day Lodge when you get your ticket.
 
#The XC ski trails and the 21 mile creek watershed (Rainbow Lake) are closed to dogs. This closure includes the ski touring loop from Hanging Lake over to Beverley Creek and ascents of Rainbow Mountain from the south and west.
The Callaghan main line will be plowed to Alexander Falls, providing easier access to the valley. It is anticipated the mainline will be plowed to Alexander Falls by approximately 2005. Mount Sproatt, Rainbow Mountain and Callaghan Valley - including Conflict Lake, Cowpow Ridge, Telemagique, and Madeley Lake - will be designated a  non-motorized public recreation zone, except for a snowmobile corridor through the Callaghan Valley.  
 
Motorized public recreation will be confined to that corridor and to the Woods Lake  loop. The corridor will follow the current Round-the-World snowmobile trail from Alexander  Falls to the Pemberton Icecap and Powder Mountain. Given that the Callaghan main line will be  plowed to Alexander Falls, a footbridge will be built across the Callaghan Creek at  approximately the seven kilometre mark on the Callaghan main line to allow snowmobile traffic  to access the network of logging roads on the west side of the Callaghan Valley and to link  up with the Round-the- World trail through the Brandywine Valley. The footbridge will permit  snowmobilers to complete the Round-the-World trail from the staging area to be  established at Alexander Falls.
 
The following facilities or services will be required in the Callaghan  Valley:
 
Parking facilities at Alexander Falls that provides separation of  motorized and non-motorized visitors. A smaller parking lot will be maintained just  off the highway to permit non-motorized access to Mt. Sproatt via the logging  road that branches off the Callaghan main line less than � km off Highway 99.
*Day lodge at or near Alexander Falls.
*Snowmobile facilities/services at Alexander Falls: Staging area, rental services, sled school, repair and maintenance facilities, storage facilities,  grooming services, trail improvements on the west side of Callaghan Valley to link the Round-the-World trail and to accommodate the increased traffic to  Brandywine once the footbridge is in place, and management of terrain traps such  as the Gauntlet in the Brandywine Valley and 104t Street above Callaghan Lake.


Please follow the above rules or we may lose access priveledges. In particular, don't get caught skiing on an XC trail without the $6 ticket. If you really want to use the trail, $6 isn't much to ask.


==EAO links and documents==


[http://www.eao.gov.bc.ca/epic/output/documents/p234/d19155/1093882221206_6a71f82b094f41a7a4ede199a0037d2b.pdf Whistler Nordic Centre & Callahagn Valley Master Plan]
[http://www.eao.gov.bc.ca/epic/output/documents/p234/d19155/1093882221206_6a71f82b094f41a7a4ede199a0037d2b.pdf Whistler Nordic Centre & Callahagn Valley Master Plan]

Revision as of 03:04, 19 November 2008

Rules

  1. All backcountry skiing or snowshoeing parties must register at the new Day Lodge in the morning to get a special parking pass. This pass will allow you to park overnight, and/or leave through the gate after normal hours. The parking pass is free.
  2. There is a $6 per person fee if you want to use the XC trails for backcountry access. To qualify you must be on AT or Tele gear (no skinny XC skis). For safety, you must follow the same rules as XC skiers on one way trails. If you want to ski the backcountry around Madeley Lake, this is the best way to get there.
  3. If you want to access the backcountry without using the groomed XC trails, there is no fee. However, you still have to sign a waiver and get the parking pass. Please be careful when crossing XC ski trails and always yield to XC skiers. There are 3 suggested BC access routes that minimize XC trail crossings: from the daylodge climb the hill north of the ski jump to Hanging Lake or Sproatt, from the biathlon parking skirt the XC trails heading east to Hanging Lake, or from the biathlon parking drop down a short hill to the west and turn up Beverley Creek. I'll be working on signage for these routes during the winter, but for now there is nothing (contact me if you want to help). During competitive events, one or more of these routes may be closed. Be sure to check with staff at the Day Lodge when you get your ticket.
  4. The XC ski trails and the 21 mile creek watershed (Rainbow Lake) are closed to dogs. This closure includes the ski touring loop from Hanging Lake over to Beverley Creek and ascents of Rainbow Mountain from the south and west.

Please follow the above rules or we may lose access priveledges. In particular, don't get caught skiing on an XC trail without the $6 ticket. If you really want to use the trail, $6 isn't much to ask.

Whistler Nordic Centre & Callahagn Valley Master Plan

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