Doing the same trail exactly on the same day one year before, I found it less demanding physically but mentally tougher. We parked further up by 2Km than last time which saved good 4Km of logging road hiking which I wasn't looking more...
A good re-do of a classic snowshoe that we enjoyed a year ago to the day. Overcast weather to start; and routefinding was far easier on this the second go-round.
We varied the route slightly in the beginning - it was a touch more...
Dan, Trevor, Tamsyn, and I summited after six hours of hiking. The trip started by a maze of logging roads. We found the right one fairly soon after two trial-and-errors. I parked just before the snow line which was at 600m altitude more...
The road was too icy for our 2WD car. So we stopped right at the beginning of Chance creek FSR. So we hiked up the logging roads for a long time before reaching the trailhead. We continued up for a while and called it a freezing d more...