7月28日(周六)Day Hiking: 走近Mount Garibaldi(是山！不是湖)

虎行北美
[quote]游客
老虎的车车顶都要坐人，难道不是大蓬车吗？ :wink:  -g.

BTW, ( a tip: shuttle service on trail head when get there if 4x4 car is short ?)

laizhiyong
我也想去，我的jeep车也是四轮驱动，但是我的驾车水平让我脚发软，兼一个路盲，不知要开多长时间，我宁可坐车，谁能和我同开兼指路就好啦

Glacial Beauty

老虎，你估计我的车能上吗？比上次泡温泉的那条路难开吗？可以的话就取消高球活动和你门一起去了。

虎行北美
[quote]Glacial Beauty

老虎，你估计我的车能上吗？比上次泡温泉的那条路难开吗？可以的话就取消高球活动和你门一起去了。

Ruby
周六的活动好多，眼都花了。
美国的，去不了，
去得的，又是卡加利的，
难度大的，山还好锋利，害怕啦
那就这个吧，最喜欢性价比高的。

报名，一人，要搭车。
预定老虎的车，没有位子的话，车顶也可以。 :smcf:

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Mashimaro
性价比高，这广告词真是诱人哪。可惜早就答应了和SOLO去GARIBALDI LAKE, 只好等着看游记了 :cry:

虎行北美
[quote]Mashimaro
性价比高，这广告词真是诱人哪。可惜早就答应了和SOLO去GARIBALDI LAKE, 只好等着看游记了 :cry:

Mashimaro
[quote]虎行北美
[quote]Mashimaro
性价比高，这广告词真是诱人哪。可惜早就答应了和SOLO去GARIBALDI LAKE, 只好等着看游记了 :cry:

liuliu
上面的游客是我， 想参加活动， 还请各位高手多多指点

Mount Garibaldi  Access via Brohm Ridge  From Highway 99, hike along the Swift Creek Road then climb up through clearcut to western end of Brohm Ridge. Then follow Brohm Ridge eastward and swing around the north end of Mount Garibaldi, crossing the Warren Glacier, and then the NE ridge to get onto the North Pitt Glacier. Then up to summit via normal "neve" route.

General Route: From Highway 99, runs up Swift Creek to its head, then crosses over into drainage of the south branch of Cullitan creek (Old Growth Valley).

Condition: Paved to wood carvers, then continuous deep cross ditches.

History: As you approach Old Growth creek, you will first of all see the park boundary. Logging continues a short distance further, then stops. However the road right of way continues down to the creek and up the other side. It looks as if at one time there was a plan to log this portion of the park, or adjust the park boundary so as to log the Old Growth valley.

Destinations: Another access road to Brohm Ridge. Also useable to access "Old Growth Valley" (S fork of Cullitan Creek), and then Garibaldi Neve.

How to Follow: From Vancouver, drive north on Highway 99, then turn right onto a paved branch, at the top of the hill. It branches off right under the Hydro line. On TRIM map this point is 330m elevation. The first stretch is paved for about 1 km, then a dirt branch goes right. The road is shown on the 1:50,000 and on BC Basemap maps. For some reason, BC Basemap doesn't show Highway 99, but does show the paved spur under the Hydro lines.

Once you are on the dirt road, the road climbs steeply, with a switchback, then it goes under a second transmission line and levels out. Within a couple of km you come to a couple of houses and a lumber barn containing an assortment of driftwood, and twisted tree trunks, used for special purpose artwork. (Referred to as "The Wood carver's house"). The road has a good surface to these houses. Beyond the wood carver's house, the road is cross ditched, and you can only drive a short way, depending on your clearance. Once you are on foot, there are several bridges across Swift Creek, and eventually after 4 km you come to S Culliton Creek (the Old Growth Valley). Normally people skiing in the old growth valley leave the road at this point and continue via a rough trail/ road right of way which drops into the creek. Assuming you are not going to the old growth creek, but instead want to climb Brohm Ridge, the road itself switches back and climbs steeply through the clearcut.

GPS waypoints:
49°50' 48.0"-123°08' 54.0"=Junction Highway 99330m
49°51' 18.0"-123°08' 36.0"=897E225N
Google 894-230   49°51' 42.0"-123°08' 48.0"=switchback
49°51' 30.0"-123°08' 18.0"=switchback
49°51' 54.0"-123°08' 12.0"=switchback
49°51' 48.0"-123°07' 60.0"=switchback
49°52' 24.0"-123°07' 42.0"=908E245N
49°52' 42.0"-123°06' 30.0"=Old Growth Switchback (trail drops to creek (922E251N))
49°52' 30.0"-123°06' 42.0"=switchback
49°52' 30.0"-123°06' 24.0"=switchback
49°51' 54.0"-123°06' 48.0"=switchback
49°51' 54.0"-123°06' 24.0"=Brohm Ridge access (924E236N)

This report describes a 2 day trip up the Swift Creek road, onto Brohm ridge, then camp. Next day we skied up onto the Garibaldi Neve and climbed "The Tent" and then skied back down "Old Growth Creek" to regain the Swift Creek road, and then back to the highway. Old Growth Creek is the name I give to the unnamed southern fork of Culliton Creek.

With the weather clearing slightly on Friday after a cold snowfall, everybody was inspired to get out for the weekend. Rather than the usual 5 hours each way from Vancouver to somewhere way up the Duffy Lake Road to Lillooet, the idea came up to go somewhere close, and spend the 4 hours driving time saved by ski-ing instead. The original plan was to go up Cullitan Creek and further investigate what I will call "Old Growth Creek" just north of Brohm Ridge. We had discovered this delightful place on a day trip two years ago. At that time we had reached it on an overgrown logging road on the S. side of Culliton Creek. However at the last minute a phone call to Paul Kubik turned up a more pleasant shortcut - a logging road in good condition which goes up Swift Creek.

The starting point was a stub of the old highway which branches east off highway 99 just past the Cheakamus River lookout. Fresh snow was falling heavily, and we abandoned the 2wd Toyota Corolla on the first hill at about 1200 feet of elevation. There was just enough snow to put on skis right away. Shortly thereafter we passed a couple of buildings where two trucks were parked - some sort of artistic woodworking operation. By 11:08 AM, we had reached 49:52.3-123:07.7. Here the road levels out and goes through a pass. We continued on the road across a large clearcut. At 12:11 we reached the furthest point east on the road at 49:52.68-123:06.4. From here you have a choice - either to switchback to the west, or continue straight ahead into the trees. This is the point we returned to the next day via the creek. On the way up, we chose to take the switchback.

At 13:57 we reached the top of the clearcut (49:52.4-123:05.9) and continued climbing in the remaining mature forest. At 15:32 we emerged into the open (49:51.88-123:04.8) with the weather cold and clearing. As expected, there were snowmobile tracks everywhere, but the snowmobiles had mostly retreated for the day.

Now the terrain got interesting. We worked our way along the north slopes of Brohm Ridge, looking for a camp spot beyond snowmobile territory. We kept eyeing a nice flat spot just at tree line at the head of "old growth" creek (about 49:52-123:02). However, it turned out that you can't quite get down there coming from the west - there is always one little steep section that prevents your descent. This forced us up past the white 2 story cabin with french doors and a big stone chimney. It still had 3 snowmobiles parked outside it, two of which left just as we approached. The woman who lives there was very friendly and told Tanya all about what a groovy place it is - has been there since 1970, and her dad bought it in 1980, and if the Brohm Ridge development goes ahead she could live up there and do snowmobile tours. Apparently the snowmobiles don't cause her to worry - she gets frequent visitors at all hours from the snowmobile club - apparently the main worry is UFO's. Too bad she doesn't get into ski-ing.

Anyway, we camped a short time later, on a shelf right above an enormous cliff.

Sunday morning I looked out of the tent and it was completely clear, with bands of deep purple, then yellow and red on the horizon. The sun rose precisely at 7:30, just as my GPS said it would at that exact lat-long and date. It was like looking at a German train schedule. With Dave's MSR classic XGK drowning out our Whisperlight, we soon had breakfast, lots of water, and were up and away. We took down the tents and headed east, the plan being to get well across the park boundary and hopefully beyond the range of the snowmobiles that would be up later in the day. We dumped everything except daypacks at a temporary snowwall Dave made, and then climbed upward onto the Warren Glacier. To get onto the Glacier involves a tricky and interesting traverse threading ones way through spectacular crevasses and icefalls. By 12:12 we were at the critical point on the crossover 49:51.77-123:00.02, with the North Face of Mount Garibaldi looming above us. This was a side of the mountain I had never seen before, and perhaps the most spectacular. (Since I don't yet have a digital camera, you won't see the pictures to go with this article for a month or so.) Anyway, onwards and upwards we climbed, till we were up on the high level flats of the Warren Glacier, looking up at the neve climbing route on Garibaldi. here we had lunch.

We had originally considered climbing Mount Garibaldi, but after lunch we decided to settle on The Tent instead. (The bergshrund looked a bit larger than normal on Garibaldi). So up to the Garibaldi-Tent col, where we dumped our skis and climbed on foot up to the summit of the Tent. Here we were treated to yet another spectacular view of Garibaldi - this time the east face.

From the summit, it was fantastic ski-ing all the way down the Warren Glacier. Soon we were back at our packs. A couple of snowmobiles had invaded the park in our absence, but fortunately had come and gone by the time we got there, still leaving some glorious powder.

Now came my favourite part of the trip. After picking up our packs, we descended where no machine could follow, into the steep upper section of Old Growth Creek. The ski-ing was fantastic, and everybody had big grins on their faces as we swished from side to side in the open gulley of the creek. Eventually, we got to a point where we started to see open sections of the creek, but in spite of the low snow year, we were always able to find snow bridges. In the mid-section, we climbed slightly above the creek on the east, and came down an open and parallel tributary creek. Finally after several hours of interesting skiing, we arrived at the point where the brushed out road climbs out of the creek and back to the switchback previously mentioned at 49:52.7-123:06.4. Here we put on our headlights, in the grand old style, and were soon ski-ing down the road. There are numerous shallow water bars to be crossed, almost all of which can be done quickly without removing skis. We would just swish up to the bar sideways, then topple across the bar in one continuous motion, and keep ski-ing.

As soon as we were on the road, we saw the tracks of Paul Kubik, someone else, and many dog prints. "White man went this way - many dogs". Eventually we saw tire tracks higher up on the road, and all the boot and dog prints vanished into thin air. This led to my conclusion that the woman in the cabin was right after all about the UFO's.