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Nahmint Mountain has been on my bucket list for a long time, but there always seem to be bigger and more important mountains to tackle than this peak. The main issue is that the trip reports I’ve read discuss how long the trip is, and it’s difficult to find people who are interested in doing exceptionally long days. I’m happy to report that we used a route that got us back to the vehicle within eight hours.
What an amazing day on Mount Klitsa! Nine of us hiked the Brooke George trail and reached the summit on this beautiful day. We drove on the rough road to the trailhead, which made returning to the vehicles even more satisfying. Many thanks to the AVOC volunteers for creating the turnaround!
Continue reading “Mount Klitsa via Brooke Geroge Trail — Lifetime Objective”
August 3, 2024
~ submitted by Evan Martin
I met Christine, Dean, and Sarah at the start of Marion Creek FSR at 10:00. After quick introductions we proceeded to drive to the trail head. We took two vehicles – a small truck and an SUV – neither of which had any trouble on the FSR. It was in very good condition. We parked at the large pullout on the right hand side at the top of the hill near the 10km mark. After gathering our gear we proceed to walk another 400m up the road to the trail head. It was 10:30 by the time we left the trail head. Not quite the alpine start Dean was hoping for, but coming from Victoria I was happy to have a good night sleep.
June 20, 2024
~ submitted by Ken Warren
The weather was good. Mostly sunny with some clouds, but nice and cool.
I mean what can I say about Mount Cokely via the CPR Trail other than it’s longer and steeper every time I do it … oh, and there are killer views. Dean joined us for the first part of the hike before moving on ahead. Trail conditions were good until the snow on the final approach, and really the snow was aesthetically pleasing.
Three of us summited and lunched at the top and enjoyed the view – Arrowsmith is beautiful from Cokely. The descent was uneventful. We all enjoyed the day.
April 13, 2024
~ submitted by Clint Millar
We made our way up the CPR trail continuing on the east side of the Arrowsmith lookout Loop. We were in and out of fog and cloud. It eventually blew out and we had clear blue sunny skies.
As we continued toward to west side of the loop, by the old ski hill road we hit the snow and it was quite cloudy again and cold. Making our way along the west side back to the CPR trail the skies opened up against and we enjoyed a beautiful decent. The whole hike was amazing.
Look forward to posting it again and taking another group up!
March 29, 2024
~ submitted by Matthew Lettington
Trips like these make us wonder if it’s even possible to spend too much time out here.
April 6, 2024
~ submitted by Pete Hrkac
We parked at the trailhead for the new approach to the Main Gulley route. Conditions we’re fairly good; overcast/foggy weather, light snow on the ground turning into a supportive crust.
Continue reading “Mount Arrowsmith – Main Gully”
October 7th, 2023
~ submitted by Greg Deabler
A perfect weather day with unseasonable warm temps for mid October. After dropping a vehicle at the unjudges route trailhead we headed up the road to the climber’s trailhead and got started about 9am.
Continue reading “Mount Arrowsmith traverse (West Ridge to South Summit descending the Unjudges Route)”
September 30th, 2023
~ submitted by Mary Hof
Today I led a group of 8 on a hike to Mt. Apps for the Island Mountain
Ramblers.
Mt Apps is the second highest summit in the Beaufort Range and overlooks the east
coast of Vancouver Island as well as the Alberni Valley to the west and south.
It also presents excellent views of the southern part of Strathcona Provincial
Park to the northwest. We could see forever today.
September 7, 2023
~ submitted by Mary Hof
After some late cancelation, we had 2 Ramblers and 1 guest. I learned from this hike you don’t want a whole lot of people as it takes time to go down the ropes without rocks flying on the person below.
