Hiking in BC

The BCMOS 2010 summer hiking season runs from Wednesday, May 26 to Friday, September 3, and focuses on "day hikes" that enable people with disabilities to venture out into wilderness areas.

BCMOS is offering guided TrailRider hikes at Pacific Spirit Regional Park Wednesdays to Fridays throughout the summer season. The 1,885-acre Pacific Spirit Regional Park, on the University of BC Endowment Lands, is a truly beautiful multi-purpose recreational area.

In addition, BCMOS will offer theme hikes that venture further afield on Saturdays. These theme hikes will be half-day hikes to specific destinations, or with specific activities in mind. (See below for examples.)

Then, on Sundays, we will offer geocaching - a high-tech hide-and-seek in which you explore the outdoors in search of hidden treasure and adventure. (More about this in our latest newsletter.)

(There will be no organized hikes Mondays and Tuesdays, but the TrailRider is available for rent every day of the year for people that want to arrange their own excursions.)

Hikers will need to organize their own “Sherpas” to assist on the hike, wherever possible. While this is because BCMOS struggles to find sufficient volunteers, especially on weekdays, our clients find that hiking with family and friends is a more worthwhile experience. We also recommend that participants bring their own: snacks, water, jacket, hat, sunblock and sunglasses.

 

Book a hike

To book a hike, email or phone Eric Chomko at 604-688-6464 ext. 114.

(For general information about our programs or the TrailRider, you can also email or phone Eric Molendyk at 604-688-6464 ext. 117.)

Destinations for BCMOS 2010 weekend theme hikes

Admiralty Point, Belcarra Park, Port Moody: A beautiful hike along waterfront forest trails, boasting great ocean views. It’s a moderate trail with some hard sections, with a variety of picnic points. Allow two to four hours. (Pic right.)

Brohms Lake, Squamish: A difficult hike, requiring four Sherpas per TrailRider, but rewarded by beautiful views of Paradise Valley and the Cheakamus river. Not recommended for people afraid of heights!

Burnaby Lake: In the heart of Burnaby, this is an easy-to-reach hiking location for many of our clients. Essentially a flat trail around a lake, through an area rich in birdlife. There are many picnic locations along the route.

Burns Bog (Delta Nature Reserve): a very accessible trail, considering the amount covered by boardwalks. Being so wheelchair accessible, most clients can access it themselves.

Buntzen Lake: A moderately technical trail through a beautiful area, crossing over a variety of small creeks. It’s possible to follow a circular route around the majority of the 4.8 km hydro reservoir. (Pic right.)

Comosun Bog, Pacific Spirit Park: Offering a longer hike within Pacific Spirit Park, this three-hour route crosses a series of fallen trees in order to access a biologically important wetland habitat.

Cypress Falls Park, West Vancouver: A tough, technical hike to a spectacular canyon boasting two breathtaking waterfalls. It’s well worth the effort.

Four Lakes Loop, Squamish: A modified version of the classic Lake Loop, extended and improved! It’s a tough hike, but the breathtaking views make it all worthwhile.

Green Timbers Urban Forest, Surrey: A patch of forest in urban surrey with a manmade lake stocked for fishing. It’s an easy hike, within easy reach of a great number of people, with free interpretive trail walks offered by park staff during the summer.

Giant Douglass Fir Trail, Cultus Lake: A brief, 15-minute excursion from the Clear Creek Campground to the large tree of the title.

Hick’s Lake Loop, Harrison: A beautiful circular walk with amazing views of the water and mountains. Being located past Chilliwack, it’s a long drive – but worth the effort.

Kilarney Lake, Bowen Island: A beautiful hike through Crippen Regional Park that takes participants to, and around, the beautiful and peaceful Killarney Lake. An ideal hike for someone looking to venture a little further afield, but without having to spend hours in the car to get there.

Lighthouse Park, West Vancouver: A low-level old growth forest with 55m Douglas firs that offers a variety of terrain, with fantastic lookout points across English Bay and a historic lighthouse (the original 1874 lighthouse burned down and was replaced 1912). The trails are tough in places.

Lower Seymour, North Vancouver: A trail through the woods of the lowerMount Seymour, over bumps and rocks and tree roots. Hike lasts around two-and-a-half hours.

Lynn Canyon Suspension Bridge/Rice Lake, North Vancouver: The hikebegins with a crossing of the swaying suspension bridge, 50m above Lynn Creek,and then goes on to get even morespectacular as it takes you through dense forestry. It includes a hike around Rice Lake.

Rocky Point, Port Moody: This hike follows the boardwalk along the water’s edge in Port Moody. There are interpretive signs along the route identifying the local birdlife.

Seven Sisters Trail, Cultus Lake: A narrow trail leads through dense woods to view the famous seven sisters, a group of giant Douglass fir trees

Spanish Banks, Vancouver: Starting from the Pacific Spirit Park trailer, this hike takes you through the wooded trails to the beach. There are picnic tables along the waterfront.

Tea Pot Trail, Cultus Lake: This hike, although only 2km long, gains 280m in height. It takes around two hours to reach the top of Tea Pot Hill by TrailRider, but once there, the views take in Cultus Lake and the rest of the Fraser Valley.

Tynehead Regional Park, Surrey: A thickly forested area, with a variety of views: from forest to open wildflower meadows, and some pretty bridges to cross.

	Admiraly Point		Cypress Falls Park
	Kilarney Lake, Bowen Island		Lynn Canyon Suspension Bridge
	Lighthouse Park, West Vancouver		Spanish Banks, Vancouver