A great bang for your buck 20 minutes from home!
Pick your poison to get up hollyburn, any way will do.
Ski from hollyburn to Strachan is excellent. Again, as long as you are roughly skiing in the right direction, you can ski any line and they are all great.
Grovel up the cat track to the Strachan upper lift. zig zag up beside that. Not terribly fun. But it doesn’t have to be fun to be fun.
Pass by christmas gully to the top of upper Strachan.
Have so much fun skiing the gully and trees. Again, stay leftish but essentially any line will take you down to the HSCT, and that will take you back to the lodge.
Meet up with all the snowshoers on black. Go up, check out the little peek, return to the up track to the second black peak.
Don’t go too far right down the backside of black. The right side of the gulley is a cliff. This was the closest thing to adventurous, but I feel mostly due to being on the wrong side of the creek wall.
Go drink beer.
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The east branch trail to Eagle Bluffs is in much worse shape than 30 years ago with vigorous root growth and zero interest by the District of West Vancouver to maintain let alone improve. Recommend you set out to ascend this trail on any loop you decide. The West Branch is an easier route.
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Fantastic 7-8km loop - moderate hike with some technical sections, and lovely meandering sections. Various forest terrain and of course the beautiful memorial to the wonderful young life of Erin Moore that was taken far too soon. My wife and I did this on a rainy Sunday in 3 hours. We will come back and enjoy the trail and all it has to offer again on a more agreeable sunny day!
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The weather is perfect and the snow is good for snow shoeing. We have a very good snow shoeing today!
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Not for the faint of heart. But do it on a clear day and the views from both peaks are to die for. The ridge scramble along the top of Brunswick gets your heart going and would be ill advised in wet or snow conditions. Also the approach up Harvey from the north side involves a fairly steep incline - you’re definitely using both hands to climb. I did it clockwise and would recommend the same. Did it just under 8 hours accounting for not parking at the closest lot, losing the trail for a bit on the way up Brunswick, and dawdling for over an hour at the top of both peaks.
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Moderate Hike with beautiful views. Next time I’ll be sure to bring my suit for a dip in the lake. The elevation gain at the beginning was the hardest part but only took about 40 min. Would recommend and definitely do again.
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Quick trip up the to the West Lion, trail is in good condition, bridge is sound. Main difficulty is in finding parking. Arriving at 0730 on a Sunday wasn't nearly early enough, ended up parking about 25 minutes away from the trailhead. Watch out for Permit Only Parking.
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It’s rated as a moderate hike I would say the last part is a bit more, but the gorgeous view at the summit is outstanding and a reward for the steeper climb at the last part. Enjoy!
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Steep at the beginning but the rest was easy. Great hike with some snow/mud and an excellent view
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good shade on a hot day. Suggest hike Horseshoe Bay to Cypress (dropped 1 car at Cypress parking lot) rather than the other way-the steep climb up the rocky/large scree section we preferred to coming down it. tiny parking lot at Horseshoe Bay trailhead-go early. saw nobody until Eagle Bluffs-then very crowded. A jump in Cabin lake at Black Mtn to cool off was a treat-lots of people in the water.
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