DIRECTIONS: Take Highway 99 (Sea to Sky) to Pemberton. Continue on Highway 99 to Mount Currie, and turn right toward Lillooet. Continue on highway 99 (Duffey Lake Road) and pass the Joffre Lakes Provincial Park parking lot. Cerise Creek trailhead is not marked and hard to find. It is located about 3.3Km pass the green-roof warehouse where there is "End Avalanche Area" yellow sign on the other side of the road. This is the Summer trailhead. The winter one is few hundred meters before it. If you reached Duffy Lake, you went too far.create
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Vantage Peak
Sep 20, 2014
Day 2 of 3: Vantage Peak/Twin One Glacier from Anniversary Glacier Campsite.
Trail has a decent foot bed for the first 1/3 then it becomes more faint as you approach the col between Matier and Vantage with gorgeous alpine meadow type terrain mixed in with some short, easy to navigate boulder fields ... and then the magic begins... when you top out the col... the Twin One Glacier comes into full view cascading down from the col beside Matier into the boulder filled valley below, terminating at a small glacial fed lake. The water then runs down a valley past Vantage and Duke on its left...to feed Twin One Lake. I started a new hiking meetup...check out whats coming up next!BC Peaks & Trails Hiking Group
From here you look at the peak of Vantage and you see what looked like a straight ridge walk from the start of the trail is actually a steady grade of zigzagging ridge "ramps" that you can just hike with the occasional involvement of hands... trail braids in a few places but it pretty straightforward where you need to be.
The Peak... that is another story... there is a chimney you need to find... the reason I say... "need to find" is because the trail proper takes you to the top of the ridge on climbers left... and it was too narrow for this author's comfort zone... or anyone else's for that matter... so you need to traverse to climbers right until you find the chimney (class 2-2.5 scramble) to take you to the top of the ridge, then an easy walk over to the peak proper...
Our plan was to also complete Duke but we were all feeling a little lazy and spent a fair bit of time lounging on the peak soaking up the sun... so we decided to head for the foot of the Twin One Glacier instead.... We then dropped down the col towards Duke about 200m elev and started heading back by traversing Vantage and descending when we could (route finding until we regained our original trail) to the Matier / Vantage col.
From here it was a succession of moraine ridges and plateaus until we met the foot of the glacier... topped up our water, did some exploring, photos... then returned to the Anniversary Campsite by regaining the col and taking the same trail back.
More info coming soon... and photos....
Have fun out there, stay safe and see you on the trails!
Regards, Rex.