Trip Ideas

Guidebooks

See the guidebooks page.

Hiking

Daytrips from Vancovuer:

• Backside Trail of the Chief
• Needle Peak
• Mount Seymour
• West Lion

Weekend trips from Vancouver :

• Howe Sound Crest Trail
• Garibaldi Lake and Black Tusk
• Manning Park

Longer hikes :

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

Backcountry Skiing

A lot of backcountry skiing in the coast range revolves around going to huts. 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.

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.

Mountaineering

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 Rainier

On Campus

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

• UBC Campus outdoor "buildering"
• bouldering caves on campus