devinejohnny Posted June 26, 2007 Posted June 26, 2007 Trip: Mount Habrich, Squamish, BC - Mount Habrich Approach Date: 6/17/2007 Trip Report: We set out with big plans last weekend to bike the forest service roads back to Mount Habrich, camp for a couple of days and climb 3 of the classic routes on the southwest face. Due to rain, we only ended up camping at the base of the mountain for a night, then hiking out. We knew the weather was iffy, but figured we’d take a shot at the trip, at least for reconnaissance sake. The drive up on Saturday was bogged down by the usual boarder/Vancouver/construction delays, but we arrived in Squamish with enough time to do a little scouting of the trail. We hadn’t done our homework and were shocked to find that the Stawamus/ Indian FSR was gated right at its head, 4km from the Apron parking lot. This was going to make our bike ride a lot longer. With non-panniered bikes we scouted the first 3-4km of the road and found it to be in pretty bad shape after the Shannon Creek turn off. After pushing our bikes more than riding them, we decided to just hike in the next morning instead. Sure it would have been nice to have bikes for the occasional flat spots, but there was a lot of step, washed out sections that would have sucked to take a bike up or down. On Sunday we woke to cloudy skies but figured we try our luck; hike in and spend a night or two and see if the weather improves, as forecasted. We parked our car at the Chief campground and biked to the gated FSR road, about three miles (I’ve had my car broken into on the Mamquam FSR before and learned my lesson). The approach was pretty straight forward. The road is a clear and easy hiking until the vehicle barricade (roughly 9km in). Then it gets a little rougher, but you pass some interesting craigs and vistas. At about 3km from the barricade you come to a couple of spur roads on the left. Ignore the first, but take the second. Then look identical: very nasty and overgrown. The second was marked with some flagging tape, two cairns, and a crude arrow of stones. If you reach Shannon Creek, which has had its bridge removed and was all but impassible with high water, you need to go back a couple hundred meters. The Shannon Creek Valley spur road was NASTY. It looks like some good Samaritan tried to trim some brush back for the first few hundred feet, but after that it is just pure thrashing. It is about 2km until the trail opens in a small, flat sandy opening near a stream with a cairn marking the climber trail to the left. We camped here next to bear tracks in the snow and waited. It rained until 10AM the next day, so we decided it wasn’t going to dry out during our time frame and hiked back out. Quote
gertlush Posted June 27, 2007 Posted June 27, 2007 How does Habrich look? If it came out of the clouds that is Quote
devinejohnny Posted June 27, 2007 Author Posted June 27, 2007 We only got a brief glimpse of Habrich. Can't really say if it looked good or not. The climber trail is all but non existent. We did get a few glimpses of this, which is up on the right side end of Shannon Creeek Valley, across from Habrich. Quote
John Frieh Posted June 27, 2007 Posted June 27, 2007 Nice string of strictly climbing posts devinejohnny! Looking forward to more TRs! You're the anti sprayer... or anti Kevbone Quote
jmace Posted June 27, 2007 Posted June 27, 2007 Looking forward to more TRs! ya and if he can learn how to use the enter button after a photo post and in between paragraphs you could actually read this this thing and the Yak TR..just givin ya a hard time but a few spaces would make it easy to read. that rock wall on the right is just before sky pilot, the habrich trail is actaually quite good for BC standards.. , I hiked it last year and its fine, a tad bushy for like 5 mins Quote
G-spotter Posted June 27, 2007 Posted June 27, 2007 Isn't that CoPilot? It sure looks like CoPilot to me. Quote
jmace Posted June 28, 2007 Posted June 28, 2007 no its not copilot, co pilot is way over top the right this is that wall you walk under when approachin sky pilot, im pretty positive as I have seen that wall many times Quote
G-spotter Posted June 28, 2007 Posted June 28, 2007 that's what he's saying, this is across shannon creek from habrich, which is copilot u are just lost Quote
devinejohnny Posted June 28, 2007 Author Posted June 28, 2007 ya and if he can learn how to use the enter button after a photo post and in between paragraphs you could actually read this this thing and the Yak TR..just givin ya a hard time but a few spaces would make it easy to read. I'm learning. Look, I just figured out how you did that box in a box thing ("quote"). Look forward to more spaces from this poster in the future. Quote
devinejohnny Posted June 28, 2007 Author Posted June 28, 2007 Check my Yak TR now; much improved I would say. Quote
Ponzini Posted June 28, 2007 Posted June 28, 2007 that's what he's saying, this is across shannon creek from habrich, which is copilot u are just lost It ain't, Copilot is higher and to the right, the route to stadium glacier is below that bluff and the route to Gunsight Gap goes behind it. Quote
G-spotter Posted June 28, 2007 Posted June 28, 2007 Got a pic in good condtions? I respectfully doubt your conclusion. Quote
Kat_Roslyn Posted June 28, 2007 Posted June 28, 2007 Try a bike next time going up that road, then you can just do Habrich on a nice day. Do you do anything else while in Squamish? Quote
jmace Posted June 28, 2007 Posted June 28, 2007 It ain't, Copilot is higher and to the right, the route to stadium glacier is below that bluff and the route to Gunsight Gap goes behind it. YUP, exactly that wall is so identifiable...man its a great day when you can beat the almighty drew at mountain naming!! Quote
Ponzini Posted June 28, 2007 Posted June 28, 2007 I think the bluff in question is below the N Face of Ledge in the picture below, not mine but widely available: Quote
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