High Country Sportswear
is an outdoor gear and clothing store
in Cranbrook, BC
www.highcountrysports.ca
The hiking guide book by Janice Strong is as accurate as possible at the time of writing in December 2008. However road access changes and the trails change by avalanches, washoutes and being overgrown, etc. This chart is to help hikers keep up to date with current conditions.
| 2009 Book Updates | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hike Number | Hike or Road Name | Description, Location, or GPS coordinates | Other Details | |
| #57 | Ghostrider on Mount Hosmer | GPS correction for the parking lot on Hartley Lake Road |
N95907-E47349 | JS |
| Meachen Creek Road | 0 - 8 km |
Many new logging branches. Stay to main road. |
Excellenet condition to Hour Glass Lake trailhead | JS |
| Meachen Creek Road | 8.2 km |
Stay to left fork uphill (don't descend on new logging road to the right) |
Excellenet condition to Hour Glass Lake trailhead | JS |
| #24 | Haystack Lake and Upper Haystack Lake |
Trail to Upper Haystack Lake is only new for 3.1 km. Then the trail is occasionally used and confusing. 3.1 km trail braids. Take a small trail uphill west toward the base of a white rock slide. Follow indistinct trail to a large grassy avalanche slope with good views of Haystack Lake and Haystack Mountain and the trail disappears. |
JS | |
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The East Kootenay stretches for 200 km north and south in the southeastern part of BC between the summits of the impressive Canadian Rockies and the height-of-land in the rugged Purcell Mountians. See Map
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See Last Year's 2008 Road Forum with most of the work and road access completed or repaired.
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