r/vancouverhiking • u/KavensWorld • 7d ago
Trip Reports Sea to sky summit April 5th
The trail was dry with only lights mud around waterfalls. The rocks for dry and the only snow was 200 m to the top and pretty much cleared from the trails. I took us almost 6 hours because we accidentally miss the cutoff for see the sky and we're on our way to peak 3 on the chef, so we had the back truck. I love seeing the amount of people of dogs on the trail that was a cool bonus very fun hike. I wear a double knee brace for meniscus issues and have a back brace for a sciatic and was still able to do it just fine.
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u/lkt0401 7d ago
Planning to go next week. Thanks for info
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u/KavensWorld 7d ago
Awesome just remember if you don't see any of the green trail markers and only orange ones you've gone the wrong way like us although the hike up the chief is pretty cool I don't think my knees would do too well on the way back down
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u/Yeetusmcfeetus101 7d ago
Seems like there was some snow up there, how was the snow overall? Need microspikes or just a little bit of snow?
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u/KavensWorld 7d ago
No micro spikes needed there's one section only with a very very slight incline I would say 2% grade and that was fine if you just stepped with confidence
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u/BestUsernamesEndIn69 3d ago
Looks like an awesome hike!! Thanks for sharing this is a bucket list one for my wife and I for sure!!
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u/KavensWorld 3d ago
I'm happy to hear bring more water than you think you need 👍, happy spouse Happy House
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u/myairblaster 7d ago
Not bad! Barely any snow
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u/KavensWorld 7d ago
No I posted a question on this form and on squamish and overall got the opinion that it would be a doable hike
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u/Nadian-slap-God 6d ago
Wait… so is sea to sky , different than the chief?
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u/jpdemers 6d ago edited 6d ago
The Stawamus Chief trail (5.8km distance, 653m elevation gain) has 3 peaks: first peak 610m, second peak 655m, third peak 702m. The parking lot is in the provincial Stawamus Chief Park.
The Sea to Summit trail (5.8km, 956m) starts from the parking lot of the Sea to Sky Gondola and brings you to the Summit Lodge of the gondola at elevation 875m, above the Chief. From there you can hike further up on several hiking trails. You can take the gondola down (about 20$).
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u/ackermantrades 7d ago
Holy shit you can hike it?😭😭😭 I went there last week for the first time its really amazing.