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Sloquet Hot Springs and Mount Glendinning · Thu. Feb. 22nd, 2024 - Sat. Feb. 24th, 2024
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Start: Thursday, Feb. 22nd, 5:00 am
End: Saturday, Feb. 24th, 10:30 pm
Pre-trip meeting: Friday, Feb. 16th, 11:30 am
Pre-trip meeting location: Zoom
Description:
Edit: Changed dates, pre-trip meeting time
Where Golden Ears Provincial Park meets Garibaldi, there is a neat looking set of peaks that few people ever visit. It's called the Fire Spires. I think it'd be fun to go up one. An added draw is nearby Sloquet Hot Springs, one of the few undeveloped hot springs within a day's drive of Vancouver.
The Plan
On Thursday, let's leave early and drive the 2.5 hours to Pemberton. We can stop at the Pemberton McDonald's to get snacks, check the avalanche forecast, compare maps, and make sure everyone had the map data downloaded on their phone. (Pemberton might be the last place with internet.) Then we'll drive the 2.5 hours to Sloquet Hot Springs, hopefully arriving around 2 pm. This should give us time to set up camp, cook dinner, soak in the hot springs, and do some route planning. I'd like to get an early bedtime.
On Friday, for summiters, let's wake up around 4 am and start hiking by 5 am (or sooner). We'll walk up the logging road to the beginning of the route, then bootpack and ski up to Glendinning. This will likely involve steep forest route-finding and bushwacking followed by skinning along exposed, snow-covered ridges. Hopefully we can summit by 2 pm. Then we will return to the campsite. We will probably get back to the campsite after dark, sometime between 9 pm and midnight. We will need those headlamps!
On Saturday, let's pack up and leave the campsite by 11 am. If the weather is good, we might try driving back along Harrison Lake to Harrison Hot Springs. (This route is shorter in distance than going via Pemberton, but the road is much bumpier and slower.)
If you want to come up Glendinning, you will need avalanche skills (AST1 or equivalent). You could also come and just chill at the hot springs if you don't want to do this side trip; in this case you don't need avalanche skills. Also, the Glendinning part will be cancelled if the avy forecast is bad or if there is very poor visibility.
Beta
Steven Song and Francis Bailey both wrote great trip reports describing Glendinning. There was also a 2022 trip involving VOCers to nearby Ember Mountain by skis—here is Thomas Morissey's trip report, and a photo he took of Mount Glendinning:
(sorry Thomas for stealing your photo :) )
Posted: 2024-01-25 15:45:25
Last modified: 2024-02-20 20:58:12