Trip Ideas

Guidebooks

See the guidebooks page.

Hiking

Daytrips from Vancouver:

• Backside Trail of the Chief
• Needle Peak
• Mount Seymour / Mount Elsay
• West Lion
• Golden Ears
• Mount Brunswick
• Mount Harvey
• Williams Peak
• Rainbow Mountain
• Mount Rohr
• Colliseum Mountain
• Crown Mountain

Weekend trips from Vancouver :

• Howe Sound Crest Trail
• Garibaldi Lake and Black Tusk
• Three Borthers Mtn (Manning Park)
• Russet Lake
• Salal Creek and Athelney Pass

Longer hikes :

• West Coast Trail
• Stein Valley
• South Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park (Gun Creek and Spruce Lake Area)
• Indian Arm Loop Trail

Backcountry Skiing

Some good areas for daytrips:

• Diamond Head
• Mount Sproat near Whistler
• Mount Rohr 1 or 2 days
• Cayoosh Mountain 1 or 2 days
• Needle Peak 1 or 2 days
• Zoa Peak

Good weekend trips:

• Rainbow Mountain
• Caspar Creek
• Steep Creek

A lot of backcountry skiing in the coast range revolves around going to huts. Some good huts to visit for backcountry skiing are:

• Brian Waddington Hut
• Burton Hut
• Keith's Hut
• Wendy Thompson Hut
• Elfin Lakes Shelter

There are also a number of popular ski traverses near vancouver :

• Garibaldi Neve Traverse usually takes 2-4 days.
• Spearhead Traverse usually takes 2-5 days.

Trips to and traverses of big icefields are usually reserved for the spring, but sometimes undertaken mid winter. The following have been done by club members in recent years.

• Pemberton Icefield 1 week
• Waddington Icefield 2-3 weeks
• Lillooet Icefield 2 weeks
• Monarch Icefield 2 weeks
• Misty Icefield

Rock Climbing

Climbing within weekend range of Vancouver revolves around Squamish. Beyond that, possible destinations are :

• Skaha outside of Penticton
• Leavenworth in Washington
• Frenchman's Coulee in Washington
• Smith Rock in Oregon
• Red Rocks just outside Las Vegas, Nevada
• Joshua Tree California.
• Canadian Rockies

Mountaineering and Alpine Climbing

Sea to Sky Corridor

There's tons of worthwhile objectives in the Sea to Sky Corridor north of Squamish.

• Wedgemount Lake Area
• Joffre Group
• Sky Pilot
• Tantalus Range

Fraser Valley

• Chilliwack Valley
• Chehalis
• Anderson River
• Coquihalla

Washington State

• Mount Baker
• Mount Shuksan
• Glacier Peak
• Mount Rainier
• Washington Pass
• North Cascades National Park

Other

• Cathedral Provincial Park near Keremeos
• The Bugaboos
• Salal Creek Wall in the upper Lillooet Valley

On Campus

If you can get your fix through a brief stint climbing on anthropogenic surfaces...

• VOC climbing wall
• Bouldering
• UBC buildering

Illicit Activities

See the following page about illegal trips