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Finally a new hike for me! I haven’t been out Chilliwack way in 10 years and the town has grown.
Hike Background: In December 9, 1956, in a terrible storm, an Trans Canada flight 810 flew (900km/hr) into the mountain peak, flying to Calgary. Five months later, climbers found the accident site. Unfortunately, all 62 people on board were dead and they decided it was too difficult to remove the bodies–and dug two mass graves. There are signs saying “removal or desecration of the remains are strictly prohibited under the BC Heritage Conservation Act”.
In May 1995, the BC government with consultation with the families of the accident, decided to preserve this 582 hectares from logging, mining or recreational development. The trail we hiked today, exists because John Vandermeer (1929-2002) built it and the Chilliwack hiking club has maintained it and recently built a new log bridge .
We did not see any glaciers. They have melted away leaving a few tiny snow fields. We did hike up another 500m from the propeller cairn to investigate. The smooth rock slope got steep very fast. When we started to crawl on our hands and feet, I knew it was time to turn around. I had to crab crawl down, otherwise cartwheeling down would have resulted in me being the #63 death on this mountain. One fellow, did fall flat on his back and was embarrassedly apologetic.
The raw jagged peaks were wonderful to admire in blazing sunshine with temperatures of 30C in the sun and 22C in the shade. I highly recommend this trip as it is only 15km long with an easy 950 m elevation gain. It took us 6 hours return. The logging road was pretty rough with large boulders, water bars and huge puddles. 4wd and high clearance required.
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