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[TR] Mount Habrich, Squamish, BC - Mount Habrich Approach 6/17/2007


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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.

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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

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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.

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that's what he's saying, this is across shannon creek from habrich, which is copilot :wave: 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.

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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!! :wave:

 

 

 

 

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