There is a cat road with two wire gates crossing it (please make sure that you close and secure each gate) to the right of the outbuildings on the private property. Follow this cat road for about 5 minutes keeping your eye open for a BC Forest Service sign and the trail (see photo). (The beginning of the trail has changed significantly since “Trails to Timberline” was published, so do not go to the water system intake.) The trail is very easy to follow on the way up, but keep your eyes open on your descent as the new trail veers off of the old trail at a sharp angle and is easily missed.

Features: A steep 2 hours through forest to alpine. The creek is often away from the trail, and when close is at times below your feet under a carpet of mossy boulders. You can fill water bottles at the beginning of the trail when you cross the creek and not again until near the alpine. Once in the alpine, you can look back on the Hazeltons. Scrambling up into the bowl allows for some spectacular rugged mountain scenery and access to some crossover routes. To get to the top of the bowl, you will need an ice axe and potentially crampons and an additional 3 – 4 hours to ascend. If you climb high into the bowl, be careful of the time you allow for your descent as descent time is not much shorter than ascent.

Very experienced hikers can use this trail to loop to Station Creek Trail or Blue Lakes Trail, Juniper Creek and Comeau Creek with good route finding and strenuous hiking.

Be careful on your return as the new trail turns to the right (while descending) on the ridge while the old trail is still visible and follows the ridge all the way down to the old river crossing which is no longer passable. We have flagged the turn to try to make it more visible on the descent.