Category: Hiking

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Forbidden Plateau Traverse trail (Raven Lodge to Wood Mountain)

–submitted by Ross Burnett

The Forbidden Plateau Traverse Trail is a section of one of the club’s “Lifetime Hiking Objectives”. It can be done in either direction; and as a day trip or an overnight. It is about 28 kilometres long.

Three keen members took advantage of the great fall day, and did it as a day hike, in the more downhill direction from Raven Lodge to the Wood Mountain end, finishing at the bottom of the old ski hill; which also serves as the trailhead for the Mt. Becher hike.

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Mount Klitsa via Brooke George Trail

–submitted by Matthew Lettington

Mount Klitsa is a somewhat uncharacteristic mountain along the Highway 4 corridor. While many of Vancouver Island’s most iconic peaks are in this area, they often come with sketchy approaches, long bushwhacks, thousands of tourists, or actual climbing. The lengthy logging-road approach to Klitsa tends to keep people at bay.

I wish I had a vehicle with more passenger space, but what can I do with only three spots for passengers? We do what we can. Thanks to the two other drivers who offered up their vehicles. In total, we managed to get 9 members out on September 20th.

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Moriarty from the East Side

-Submitted by Su Castle
Our injured middle-aged knees needed a smaller South Island objective. Moriarty from the East sounded like the perfect objective. We drove up Northwest Bay logging road 155 main to 160 main. The drive ended at a bit of a rock slide. After walking about 500 m up the logging road to our “trailhead”, we were faced with berry-full 250m bushwack to the logging road that would take us to 1125m.  So many tasty berries! (Plenty of elk and bear prints!)

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Appleton Creek to Rieveley Pond

–submitted Lisa G.

Inland Lake Campout was June 5-7, 2026 and there were several hikes happening throughout the weekend. I chose to lead the Appleton Creek Trail to Rieveley Pond section on June 6, 2026 as I had heard about how nice the waterfalls are in this section of the Sunshine Coast Trail. We planned for rain but ended up having a fairly dry day…but unfortunately not swimming weather. I planned it for HK1P1 so everyone could have a chance to take photos of the waterfalls and old growth trees. There were 7 hikers in total and we hiked out and back with a total distance of 8.2 km with an elevation gain of 245m.

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Nahmint Mountain from North East Ridge

May 9th, 2026

~ submitted by Matthew Lettington

For years, Nahmint Mountain was one of those peaks lingering on my bucket list that I never quite got around to climbing. It’s not even an especially long drive — just over two hours from home. Maybe it was the horror stories people share about the heinous bushwhack. Truthfully, though, it had more to do with my hiking partners. My usual partners had already climbed it, and I never seemed able to find people brazen enough to face down the bush.

And yet, this trip marked my fourth ascent of the peak in just two years.

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5040 via Cobalt Lake Overnight

May 5, 2026

~ submitted by Melanie Yu

5040 is one of those hikes that, in my opinion, offers some of the best panoramic mountain views for the relatively short effort required to reach the summit. It’s a mountain that is attainable for most hikers. 

When you’re first getting into hiking, this hike can feel like the hardest hike in the world, but the rewards at the top makes every step worth it. To find better views than 5040, you usually have to commit to objectives well over 1000 m of elevation gain.

Although I’ve done this hike four times, I have never stayed at the hut. Every time I passed by on a day hike, I wished I could stop and spend the night there. Booking the hut in May was also a gamble.  I knew there was a chance we’d get absolutely no views as I was also booking almost 2 months in advance but was willing to take the risk.

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Triple Peak – Recon turned Summit trip

May 3, 2026

~ submitted by Evan Martin

Triple Peak is an iconic landmark on the southern part of the island.  Hence it tends to be on every novice island mountaineers checklist.  Having not checked it off myself, it was high on my list.  However, between being early season and not having been in the mountains for a while, my expectations were low.  Hence, I posted this as a reconnaissance trip rather than a summit attempt to keep expectations in check.  Maybe that’s why I got very little interest.  Either way just I and another Rambler headed out for the day with the sole purpose of getting out, but with a healthy amount of hope.

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