Stephen Hui - 105 Hikes in and Around Southwestern British Columbia

Moraine above Upper Joffre Lake.

For my son, Ollie, who agrees every hike should end with ice cream,
and for everyone dedicated to protecting and maintaining our trails

Copyright 2018 by Stephen Hui

Foreword copyright 2018 by TuyttanatCease Wyss

Copyright 2018 Being Prepared by Michael Coyle

Copyright 2018 Ethical Hiking by Jaime Adams

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ISBN 978-1-77164-286-6 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-1-77164-287-3 (epub)

Editing by Lucy Kenward

Copy editing by Alison Jacques

Cover and text design by Nayeli Jimenez

Cover photograph by iStock

Photographs by Stephen Hui

Cartography by Steve Chapman, Canadian Map Makers

Greystone Books gratefully acknowledges the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples on whose land our office is located.

Greystone Books thanks the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia through the Book Publishing Tax Credit, and the Government of Canada for supporting our publishing activities.

SAFETY NOTICE

Hiking, scrambling, and all forms of outdoor recreation involve inherent risks and an element of unpredictability. Many of the hikes in this guidebook are not for novices and may not be safe for your party. There are dangers on every road, trail, and route, and conditions can change at any time. While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, this book may contain errors. You assume full responsibility for your safety and health in the backcountry. The author, publisher, and distributors accept no liability for any loss, damage, injury, or death arising from the use of this book. Check current conditions, carry the ten essentials, exercise caution, and stay within your limits.

CONTENTS

by TuyttanatCease Wyss

by Michael Coyle

by Jaime Adams

NORTH VANCOUVER

WEST VANCOUVER

LIONS BAY TO BRITANNIA BEACH

SQUAMISH

CHEAKAMUS RIVER

WHISTLER

PEMBERTON TO LILLOOET

BELCARRA TO COQUITLAM

PITT MEADOWS AND MAPLE RIDGE

MISSION TO HARRISON HOT SPRINGS

ABBOTSFORD AND CHILLIWACK

HOPE AND FRASER CANYON

COQUIHALLA PASS TO TULAMEEN RIVER

MANNING PROVINCIAL PARK

HOWE SOUND

SUNSHINE COAST

GULF ISLANDS

VICTORIA

BELLINGHAM TO MOUNT VERNON

ANACORTES AND SAN JUAN ISLANDS

MOUNT BAKER

Spring hike on the Triangle Lake Trail.

FOREWORD

by TuyttanatCease Wyss

Chexw men wa ha7lh?

Hello, you are well?

Chet kwenmantmi-wit, wa lhtma swlhayalkalh!

We invite you to our cultural places, where the water runs over anything (falls, rapids, stones in the mountain streams)!

Chet kwen ha7lh swlwen!

Our hearts are lifted!

THE SWXW7MESH PEOPLE, the Sttimc, and the many tribes of the St:lStsailes, Skwah, Cheam, Skowlitz, Nicomen, Seabird Island, Kweykwitlem, Katzie, Kwantlen, Sllutulth, and Xwmtskwiyam, to name a feware among the Coast Salish nations whose lands and waters you are blessed to be travelling through. North along the Sunshine Coast and over to the south end of Vancouver Island are the Shish7lh, Slhaymin, Snanymexw, Sooke, Sximlhalh, Tsalhlhtxw, and Quwutsn peoples. South of the border are the Nooksack, Sumas, and Lhaqtemish peoples, among others.

We love our sacred ststse, our forests, and we hope you love them too. These forests and smnit, these mountains, are the places where we have gathered s7lhen (foods), kytltanay (medicines), materials for our cultural regalia, and tools for creating the important treasures that we spent centuries learning about. We are people of the forests, lakes, and rivers, and, of course, we are people of the Salish Sea.

Our hope, as Indigenous peoples, is that through your time in our ancestors homes in the natural world, you will become as deeply connected to these wonderful and beautiful places that have cared for our peoplesas we have, hopefully, cared for them. We trust that you will find your personal healing journey along the rivers, trails, watersheds, and estuaries that you visit and that you will find caring ways to help these sacred places continue to exist for all of our future ancestors!

Huy chexw a for taking the time to consider where you are and what your intentions and your relationships to these wild places are! Please remember to bring only what you need and want, and understand that the wild places need nurturing as much as we do. Please consider helping the forest to stay clean and loved as you make your way through the many trails you find in this book.

Our forests are filled with rich and wondrous stories of everythingfrom lesson stories, which we tell our children to keep them self-aware, to humorous and serious stories that are a reflection of our ancestors stories from long ago. The mythical creatures who helped us to shape these mountains and valleys are very much still present.

Huy chexw a for your good feelings and positive actions in realizing that you are part of the journey through these places. You are as important to us as the forest is to you.

Huy ma7lh!

Tuyttanat kwi en snas!

My traditional name is Woman Who Travels by Canoe.

Cease Wyss is my nickname.

TUYTTANATCEASE WYSS (Swxw7mesh/St:l/Mtis/Hawaiian/Swiss) is an interdisciplinary artist and a Coast Salish ethnobotanist who recently has returned to a textile arts practice through learning Coast Salish weaving techniques in wool and cedar. She is a member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective West Coast and lives in East Vancouver.