Mount Troubridge

High point on Sunshine Coast Trail

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Directions

From the Saltery Bay ferry terminal, follow the road around the harbour and start up the hill. 4WD required. There will be a marker for Rainy Day Lake. Continue up. Keep right at junction (your road will curve to the right going uphill). After approximately 4 km pass a trail to Rainy Day Lake to your right. Just past the 7 km marker, in the clearcut, take the left branch uphill. Park at the next fork and start to hike on the right hand road. Follow this a short way up to your right and the trail proper will begin.

Details

The trail starts up through a recent clearcut which is now full of blueberry bushes. After 15 - 20 minutes of hiking it enters the forest, and from here on in you are hiking in old growth for most of the way. Shortly after entering the forest the trail drops down steeply and then up equally steeply - you may think you are on the wrong trail - you are not. It continues up through beautiful forest and eventually brings you up to the heathery top of Mount Troubridge with an old communications shack marking the high point. The best views are actually from a bluff just below the high point. You look out over Nelson and Hardy Islands. The Sunshine Coast Trail continues on towards Elephant Lakes from here, but this is the best turnaround point if you are doing this as a day hike.

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