Lifetime Hiking Objectives

Lifetime Hiking Objectives – Recognition Criteria

To be eligible for recognition, you must meet the following requirements:

    1. Membership Requirement
      You must have been a member of the Island Mountain Ramblers for at least 3 years before submitting a claim for your award.

    2. Qualifying Trips
      Trips may be completed at any time — either as official club outings or as private hikes — including before you became a member.

    3. Documentation
      For each qualifying trip, maintain a record that includes:

      • Date of the trip
      • Names of another person in the party
      • Route taken

How to Submit Your Completed Objective

Once you have completed all the requirements for a hiking or climbing lifetime objective, please submit your trip records to either the Secretary/Treasurer or the President of the Island Mountain Ramblers.

 Objective
Highest Elevation
Location
1. Mount Cokely Via CPR Trail 1616 m. Trail starts at the east end of Cameron Lake
2. Cowichan River Trail – Upper and Lower – Cowichan Fish & Game Club to Lake Cowichan along the river (not the new gravel path)
3. East Sooke Park Trail – Coast trail, from Mine Bay to Alyard Farm (either direction)
4. Nootka Island Trail* – Nootka Sound area
5. West Coast Trail – Bamfield to Port Renfrew
6. Mt. Albert Edward  2093 m. must include Paradise Meadows
7. Augerpoint Mountain 1857 m. Must include the section between Augerpoint and Buttle Lake
8. Comox Glacier 1964 m. Above Comox Lake
9. Cream Lake 1260 m. South of Buttle Lake
10. Della Falls  600 m. Drinkwater River from Great Central Lake (either direction)
11. Flower Ridge Trail 1406 m. Southeast of Buttle Lake
12. Mt. Becher to Mt. Jutland 1803 m. Forbidden Plateau
13. Landslide Lake 900 m. Elk River Valley, Strathcona Park
14. Marble Meadows Trail 1525 m. West of Buttle Lake
15. Phillips Ridge Trail – Don Apps Trail 1728 m. Westmin Mine to Arnica Lake
16. Cape Scott Trail – Northern tip of Vancouver Island

 

Ramblers who have achieved Hiking Lifetime Objectives:

John Cowlin          1987
Doreen Cowlin     1987
Janice Spearing    1993
Derek Fletcher      1995
Paul Berthoud      2009
Christine Rivers   2009
Dean Williams     2014
John Young    2021
Mary Hof 2022
Matthew Lettington 2023
Caleb Wallum 2025
Eryn Tombu 2025
Su Castle 2025

* Nootka Island’s coastal route replaced a different objective: the coastal route between Ucluelet and Tofino. Private development had shortened the hike on both ends by the early aughts. Then Parks Canada advised the club that the route between Radar Beach to either Cox Bay or Schooner was not an official trail and asked us not to use it. While this route is no longer usable, if you completed the route prior to 2009, then you can use it in place of Nootka.