With unexpectedly good weather descending on us, the plans needed to be made fast. We met up with Jen and started hiking from the upper parking lot at Lions Bay at 2pm. Were lucky to catch 2 guys just about to leave; otherwise, it   more...

After deciding to change the destination from Slollicum Peak to Mt. Harvey, due to higher avalanche risk in Slollicum, Graz, Ben, Scot and I met up at 8:00 and drove to Lions Bay to hike up Mt. Harvey. The trail is well marked, but   more...

Somehow, we missed the first major turn and ended up doing an interesting route. Thank goodness for the GPS, we were able to follow a logging road that was situated further east of Harvey's normal trail, but not quite on the Li   more...

Steep, steep trail! Look for the wooden post carved with Mt Harvey a short distance before the falls on Alberta Creek. Footing is quite loose for the first upward stretch but improves once the trail leaves the creek. Snow-free until   more...

Trail is snow-free until you reach the southwest ridge of Harvey where it is more or less snow-covered to the summit. With a bit of care we had no trouble finding a path to the summit from this point - a fair amount of flagging is   more...

The long logging road is snow free up to the Harvey turn. Patches of very very slippery thin layer of snow and ice start soon after in the forest, and eventually turns into deep snow, hard in the morning, slushy in the afternoon.