Chipmunk Creek

A rough road up chipmunk creek gives access to some beatiful alpine hiking on Cheam Peak and Lady Peak. Cheam is a straightforward hike with a trail to the top, whereas climbing Lady involves some off trail hiking and class 2 scrambling. Both peaks can be done in a single day.

Vehicle Approach

All roads are marked on the NTS map for the chilliwack river, so navigation should not be a problem. The chilliwack river road crosses the chilliwack river twice. At the first bridge there is an obvious kayak slalom course in the river, and the second bridge comes after a long straightaway. Just after the second bridge, take Foley Creek FSR on the left. About 1km? up Foley FSR, go left and cross Foley Creek. Follow this road for about 1km, and then take the next right just after a bridge over chipmunk creek. This is the chipmunk creek road, which climbs very steeply and has many shallow waterbars. Part way up, the road flattens and crosses chipmunk creek, followed by a fork. Take the right fork here (straight ahead really) and from here on up just follow the branch of the road that looks to be the most used. Low clearance vehicles might have some difficulty beyond this point, but small AWD SUVs should be ok. There's a large obvious parking area at the end of the road.

Cheam Peak

Follow the obvious trail to the Cheam - Lady col and then on to the top of Cheam. That's about all there is to it.

Lady Peak

Reaching Lady is an off trail hike and easy scrmable via the SW face. Just go straight up from the cheam trail wherever the going looks good. Routefinding is easy all the way to the summit.