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A nice new idea came up: ride your bike from wherever you live to the trailhead, located 6 km away on the bike path into the Seymour Demonstration Forest , lock your bikes in the bushes and start hiking, in this case accompanied by the Halpert family of Lidia, Richard and Sylvia, and Bengul. A hot day mainly spent in the deep forest with some truly spectacular giant trees of hemlock and cedar, a waterfall, and lots of climbing up, over and under fallen trees. The route is not for the timid: it’s insanely steep and gymnastic all the way up there, always presenting us with yet another mountain slope to climb before reaching the actual summit with our tongues on our knees: a serious mental and physical challenge over the course of six hours there and back, biking again to the starting point at the gazebo. The pay-off up top is divine with its views in four directions, the map of the Lower Mainland layed out below. Sometimes, on the descent of a long hike, I marvel at what we did. I felt like a million bucks afterward, tired but strong and healthy, grateful that my body could pull off this kind of an outing. And then, after all this I cheated: I walked my bike on the ascent going south on Second Narrows Bridge, rather than doing one more knee-knackering, long hillclimb on the way home. Not just any ordinary Monday! Thanks Lidia for the initiative!
Thank you for your trip report, Mariken! Thank you Lidia for leading us on this bike and hike combination!
Here is the link to see my Flickr album: South Needle Peak Bike& Hike
See you on the trails!
Bengül
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