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Chilliwack, BC
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Posted - 07/05/2012 : 9:08 PM
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I'm interested in exploring the original trail up to Cheam Peak from Popkum / Bridal Falls FSR. I've found some information about it in the forum, but no trip reports where the summit was successfully reached using that trail. Has anyone used that route to the top in recent years?
I used Google Earth to locate the trail, and most of it is still quite clearly visible (see the image below where I've traced the trail), though the imagery is a bit dated. How difficult do you think would it be to follow on the ground (with GPS)? Anyone have any tips for finding the trail?
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Mountain Grammar Police
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 Sardonic sandbagging scoundrel, Cascade Climbers lobotomized spraymeister, space blanket flyer, new millennium vulgarian betaboy and friend to all squids
Climbing, a mountain
Canada
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Posted - 07/05/2012 : 9:42 PM
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| I followed it from the summit back to the highway. I can't recommend that though. |
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canine loving, machete-toting bushwhacking lake seeker, Indiana Jones hat-wearing off-road 4x4 guru
Surrey Hole, BC
Canada
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Posted - 07/05/2012 : 10:10 PM
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| I have heard the same from 3-4 others, its not just a hike at all.. |
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Popkum, B.C.
Canada
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Posted - 07/05/2012 : 10:25 PM
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| 4.8 Km up the Bridal Falls FSR you will find a deactivated road on the left. It's the next road after the paraglider launch road. There were pink ribbons at the intersection 2 weeks ago. The bushwack is thick in places, but generally easy to follow up to Anderson Valley. That's as far as I got in 2 1/2 hours. |
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Chilliwack, BC
Canada
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Posted - 07/05/2012 : 10:31 PM
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Thanks for the info! I've hiked up the Bridal Falls FSR a number of times and seen the turnoff, which is what made me want to try that route to Cheam. Good to hear that it's not too hard to follow.
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Originally posted by Mr. B
4.8 Km up the Bridal Falls FSR you will find a deactivated road on the left. It's the next road after the paraglider launch road. There were pink ribbons at the intersection 2 weeks ago. The bushwack is thick in places, but generally easy to follow up to Anderson Valley. That's as far as I got in 2 1/2 hours.
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Posted - 07/06/2012 : 10:34 AM
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... but generally easy to follow up to Anderson Valley
Isn't that Killarney Valley? |
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Burnaby, BC
Canada
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Posted - 07/06/2012 : 11:15 AM
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| FYI: when you are on the ridge (west of the peak), it is a bit of a scramble at some points to get up over or around the rocks. Not hard, but its not just walking the ridge. |
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Chilliwack, BC
Canada
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Posted - 07/06/2012 : 1:17 PM
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OK... anything that's potentially dangerous w/o gear? Also, do you know if it would be possible/easy to detour into Spoon Valley and join up with the "official" trail there if we want to do that?
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Originally posted by beagle
FYI: when you are on the ridge (west of the peak), it is a bit of a scramble at some points to get up over or around the rocks. Not hard, but its not just walking the ridge.
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Burnaby, BC
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Posted - 07/06/2012 : 3:36 PM
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You don't need gear - you just need to know that you will have to climb up, over and around
You can go down to the parking lot from the ridge any time, just follow the meadow down (where the bears like to hang out), and then a short bushwack or creek crawl and you will end up at the trail between the parking lot and spoon lake. At this time of the year the lower part of the meadow will be filled with water and the creeks will be flowing.
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when you come up and gain the ridge via the old trail, you can cut down to the access road (west of the parking lot - there is a trail). Then follow the road in. Though the ridge walk will be more fun, and you don't have to regain all the elevation.
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Chilliwack, BC
Canada
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Posted - 07/06/2012 : 4:47 PM
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Thanks everyone for the info... much appreciated! Keep an eye out for my TR  |
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Posted - 07/06/2012 : 6:51 PM
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| First hike i ever did in 1970? Went up with my physics teacher, Mr Hooge, and some young german lunatic who thought of war the whole way to the top and back. Fascinating eh? |
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Trail blazin', backcountry bushwackin', pine huntin', photo takin', long winded story teller
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Original Cheam Trail
