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” Garibaldi provincial park is southwest BC’s largest park. It encompasses 195,000 hectares of wilderness filled with mountains, lakes, rivers and old growth forest. This view is considered one of the most spectacular of the park. We hope you enjoy your time here!” BC Parks signage at Flute summit
Two intrepid hikers met at 5:45 am at the Church to drive up to Whistler, where two other hikers waited for them in the Whistler parking lot.
Our group was small but very efficient. We knew we had a challenge ahead of 26.16 km, 2200 cumulative elevation gain and catching the peak to peak gondola at 4 pm.
We hiked up 11.5 km to singing pass and another 3 km up to russet lake. Two of us had lunch inside the Claire Kees Hut, relaxing with our feet up in the lounge area. Quite the treat!
After a short lunch, we headed down back to singing pass in glorious sunshine with temperatures at 26 C. From there we hiked the strenuous musical bumps: obo, piccolo and flute (remember, it is the best view in Garibaldi park). After a short 15 min break (2 pm), we headed down to the junction of high note and half note trails. Then we climbed up to the symphony bowl, down to symphony lake, up to harmony bowl, down to harmony lake and finally “yo-yoing” back up to the Whistler peak to peak gondola. We arrived at 3:58 pm with 2 minutes to spare! Much to our surprise.
An exhausting day with a great group of hikers, who were very grateful for the summer like weather in October!
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