At long last an update to this site! Now that things are winding down here in the Northern Hemisphere I'll be kicking out more reports going forward. It was a rather productive Summer by Sverdina standards...
Presenting Hat Mountain and Fat Ass Peak, bagged May 8 during a globe-spanning pandemic. The inagurial hike of the 2020 "climbing season" for yours truly. Parking permit left over from a Lions Bay project home we had recently completed helped with the notoriously limited trailhead parking spaces. Never mind that the village would impose a riduculous Covid-induced $3/hr parking fee here some months later. Whatever. Maybe just go up via the Tunnel Bluffs Trail instead...yes, its got more elevation gain, but it's more direct.
Anyhoo, it's still a steep ass grunt of a hike as ever up from Sunset Drive. Continuous snow started just before Crest Trail junction and required some careful postholing down steep slopes off Brunswick's WSW Ridge/Spur into the west basin. Easy travel from there to the saddle overlooking Brunswick Lake and on up to the summit of Fat Ass Peak. Down to a notch and back up a final pitch of sloppy snow to reach Hat Mountain. Fantastic views overlooking Howe Sound and especially
Brunswick Mountain's North and West Faces! This is a great early season objective, even if the route causes one to briefly trespass into a temporarily "closed" provincial park, courtesy once again of said pandemic. And no, didn't encounter a soul out there all day.
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