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On Saturday we hiked Seed Peak in SW British Columbia, which is part of a small group of peaks about 40K north-east of Vancouver. This is an area that I've known about for a while, but that used to be very hard to access because the road in was so bad. But in the last couple of years they have been logging up there :( so have fixed the road. For somewhere accessible as a daytrip from Vancouver it is, and feels like, a rather remote area, quite a long way from a paved road or any towns.
We left Vancouver about 6am, got to Squamish about 7am, and started up the logging road. On the way we passed the aftermath of a rave in the woods, with people lying in sleeping bags at the side of the road. Good times! We parked the car at about 8.30, at about 1200 metres elevation.
This left us only a couple of kilometres and 200 metres of elevation trudging up the rest of the road to the start of the trail.
Unlike most trails round here, with this one you get out of the forest quickly, onto a subalpine ridge. You have to go over a small peak (November Peak) and down the other side, then back up again into the alpine, where you can choose to head left for Seed Peak (more of a hiking thing) or right for Mount Gillespie (more of a scrambly thing).
From the top of Seed Peak you look down onto Pinecone Lake and views all around. It's one of the most beautiful hikes I've done here for a few years, and definitely worth visiting before the road falls apart again.
1) Seed Peak from November Peak
2) Looking north-east from Seed Peak. The glaciated mountains on the left side are I think some quite remote peaks in Garibaldi Park, like Snowcap Peak and Rain God Mountain.
3) Looking north: Mount Garibaldi (left) and Mamquam Mountain (right). You can see Black Tusk poking out on the skyline right of Garibaldi, and the Garibaldi Neve under it.
4) Looking south-west towards Vancouver. The mountains on the skyline are some of the mountains on Vancouver's North Shore, including Crown, Cathedral, and Seymour. Beyond them you can see Vancouver Island in the far distance, and a bit of ocean.
5) Looking south-east. The mountain in the foreground in Gillespie, and to its right, in the far distance, is Mount Baker in the US.