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Trail Conditions and Events – July 2023
The snow continues to melt rapidly – the Plateau area trails up to Circlet have only patches left. The Plateau Traverse from Paradise Meadows to Wood Mountain
The snow continues to melt rapidly – the Plateau area trails up to Circlet have only patches left. The Plateau Traverse from Paradise Meadows to Wood Mountain
Somehow two months have slipped by since the last Newsletter and the snow has all but disappeared from the Boardwalk in Paradise Meadows and the ski slopes of Mt Washington above. Trails below 1000 m asl, such as to Divers or McKenzie Lakes, are free of snow and over in the Buttle area…
Crossing Kooso Lake, January 2023 – courtesy Tim Penney In this edition : Winter in the Park Upcoming Events Call for Volunteers WINTER IN THE PARK The popular BackCountry Film Festival that we recently hosted presented a range of exciting ski adventures from Alaska to Slovenia, but in our own Read more…
A great group of participants from the Comox Valley, Campbell River & Victoria enjoyed the hike to Upper Myra Falls at Buttle Lake yesterday, with a visit to Lower Myra Falls at the end of the day. Access to the trails is within Strathcona-Westmin Park – unusual in that it Read more…
Century Sam is both the name of a character & the name of a lake in Strathcona Park, named after the character. The Comox District Mountaineering Club recently had their annual hike to this spectacular location, in a steep-sided bowl below the Comox Glacier. Access to the trailhead is via Read more…
Marble Meadows is a less frequently visited part of Strathcona Park, but a fascinating place for geology & botany. Several posts recently on the Nature Student blog highlight this area. Geological information & maps are available online here. After crossing Buttle Lake, hiking time with full backpacks to the 1480m Read more…
Tim Penney has sent one more spectacular photo from the CDMC hike to Landslide Lake on July 9. In this photo even the highest point of Mt. Colonel Foster is free of cloud. By the way, peaks with the word ‘Mount’ as the first word of the name, are named Read more…
Photographer Tim Penney led a Comox District Mountaineering Club hike on Sunday, up the Elk River Trail to Landslide Lake. Tim sent a few pictures: the first two below are each a panorama of five photos. Tim says “The trail was in great shape with almost not snow even as Read more…
Another great fall colours hike with the Comox District Mountaineering Club today – to Rossiter & Divers Lakes. These lakes, added to Strathcona Park in 2003, are accessed via logging roads, adding some time onto the hike if starting on foot from the Strathcona Park Wilderness Centre. The old logging Read more…
The Comox District Mountaineering Club had a hike to Mt. Drabble on Forbidden Plateau today – taking an alternative access via logging roads from the north, rather than hiking in from the old Forbidden Plateau ski hill trailhead to the southeast. The fall colours were spectacular: blueberries in shades of Read more…