Photos: Hiking to Brunswick Mountain from Lions Bay
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No pain, no elevation gain.
This just-made-up hiker maxim is true of the trails leading from Lions Bay to the tops of the tallest peaks on Vancouver's North Shore.
Brunswick Mountain is the highest of them all, and that's where I found myself last weekend during the "heat wave".
From the Sunset Drive trailhead also used to access the Lions and Mount Harvey, we hiked the steep trail up Brunswick.
The final ridge to the west summit involved some easy scrambling.
Sadly, we didn't have enough gas (or water) for the scramble to the main summit, so tantalizingly close.
With around 1,500 metres of elevation gain, the strenuous hike up to the west summit took 4.5 hours.
My GPS app says the round trip lasted eight hours and covered 13 kilometres.
Comments
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Wow!
Jul 1, 2015 at 8:49am
Looks awesome. Too bad people on the disability assistance rate aren't paid enough to buy hiking boots, backpacks or a whistle! They do, however, get to spend some of their pittance on taxes that finance the highway system so that the middle class can enjoy these things!