[Gimpilator]

Went with John for a few south BC peaks. We did 6 peaks in 4 days. First day omitted becuase it was less interesing. Some new fires gave our itinerary a new dirtection. Everything seen here was impromtu, not part of the original plan. 6-4 Hope Mountain - 6050' If you can make the drive up the steep logging road, then you can probably hike the trail up Hope Mountain. We saw only trucks at the trailhead, and more bears on the road (3) than trucks. There is one crux area where you cross some downsloping rock with exposure on a ledge. The ledge was wet and muddy for us.

Hope

Wells, Grant

ledge

Isolillock at right

Wells Peak - 6112' Two trails depart from the same trailhead. We decided to do both peaks. The Wells trail is used less. There's flagging on both trails, whenever the way becomes less distinct. It also had more snow on the route. Right before the final southeast ridge, there are some steep dirt steps.

Wells

Silvertip, Rideout, Payne, Grant

Foley, Welch, The Still, Baby Munday, Knight, Lady

A nice view of (Pleiades, Larrabee, American Border, Canadian Border) from our secret camp spot

6-5 Mount Mercer - 5571' Often the best views are on smaller peaks surrounded by bigger peaks. Such is the case with Mercer. Unfortunately, the access road has been cut off by a new cut-block, so you have to walk from lower down, but we didn't mind it much.

the North Cascade sentinals, Slesse on the left and American Border on the right

Cheam and Lady

Welch group from the summit

Rexford and Slesse

Tomyhoi and Baker

6-6 Cheam Peak - 6903' 13 years ago, near the summit of Tomyhoi, I encountered some Canadians. I asked them what was a good peak to do in Canada and they said Mount Cheam. I have wanted to do it since that day, but it's not accessible without a jeep or truck, because of the mondo-sized water bars. Good things come to those who wait.

Cheam from an upper basin

There is a trail to the summit, but we had to climb some snow on the upper mountain. John and I agree that this peak has one of the best summit views we've ever seen. Probably top 5 for me. I spent at least 40 minutes on the summit just looking at everything. Thanks for driving that road John!

Fraser valley

Slesse, Blum, Shuksan, Larrabee, American Border, Canadian Border, Tomyhoi

Harrison Lake

main stuff seen here is Wahleach Lake, Jarvis, Outram, Welch, Lady

a new fire

[Now I Fly]

Wow! Need to head North! Thanks for the report!

[Stefan]

Thanks for confirming the roads are still just as bad!

[fourteen410]

[Gimpilator]

The road was sort of OK, aside from the water bars. However there was one bad section that we tried in John's Tacoma and couldn't make it. That left about 2 miles of road walking to the trailhead. Another truck parked there after us. Please look up my peakbagger track log to find the exact spot we started.