Windy Joe Mountain
A trail along an old service road leads to a decommissioned fire lookout in the Manning Park core area.
Statistics
| Total Distance: |
15.0 km (return) |
| Estimated Time: |
5.5 hours |
| Average Grade: |
8.5% |
| Structure: |
Linear - Return |
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Elevation Gain:
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654 m |
| Start Elevation: |
1202 m |
| Min Elevation: |
1189 m |
| Max Elevation: |
1843 m |
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Directions
Follow Highway #3 (Hope-Princeton Highway) 67 km east of Hope to the intersection with a flashing amber light just past the Manning Park Lodge. Turn right onto the road and follow it for 1.4 km to the Windy Joe parking lot, located on the left-hand side of the road immediately after a bridge. If you reach the fork in the road for Lightning Lake and Strawberry Flats, you have gone too far.
Details
The Windy Joe Mountain Trail follows an old, gravel service road to the top of a forested summit. The route can also be used as a moderate snowshoe during the winter months. Although the trail's destination is a fire lookout, trees at the summit block most good views of the Manning area. The fire lookout is intact and can be used as a shelter.
During the winter, the route from the trailhead on the Gibson Pass Road to the junction with the Pacific Crest Trail is not marked for winter travel - some route finding is necessary in the snow. The route on the old service road is easy to follow in the winter. The fire lookout shelter at the top can be used to sleep approximately 10 people but has no heat source.
Photographs
GPS Waypoints
| Similkameen Trailhead |
N49.06366 W120.79935 |
10U 660750 5436865 |
| First Bridge |
N49.06046 W120.78945 |
10U 661484 5436531 |
| Second Bridge |
N49.05846 W120.77771 |
10U 662348 5436333 |
| Windy Joe Trail Junction |
N49.05766 W120.77550 |
10U 662512 5436249 |
| Frosty Mountain Trail Junction |
N49.04779 W120.76435 |
10U 663359 5435176 |
| Summit and Fire Lookout |
N49.04363 W120.75467 |
10U 664080 5434735 |