Mount Seymour - October 3 2021
Fannin Range, North Vancouver, BC
1449m
This will be a short one, as I'm writing about these trips in late 2022, over a year later.
Trip 1 - June 9, 2021
This was the beginning of my + Logan's hiking career, and with a couple lake trails of experience, some running shoes, and a drawstring bag with a water bottle, we decided it was a great time to go find some snow and avalanche terrain (we did not know about avalanche terrain yet). We set out from the parking and almost immediately hit snow, though it was a broken trail so we weren't super worried. Walking in and out of the ski runs was pretty uneventful, except for the couple of guys we ran into who had to take a break for a phone interview partway through their hike. Hope they got the job, they had the dedication to answer and go through with it, at least.
I'm not sure exactly what peaks we did and didn't get, but somewhere before the Seymour peak itself, we came across a traverse across a steep face, which then required going up a sort of gully feature. All I remember is we didn't have traction aids, boots, gloves, poles, or anything else useful. We were kicking steps in with our runners, and using our hands to keep balance as we scaled the gully. Every couple steps we had to stop and breathe on our hands to stay unfrozen. There was a group of more prepared people watching and laughing from below, so at least we put a good show on?
After that, it wasn't difficult to get to the summit, this wasn't a long trip, just an after-work outing for some eager beginners. We took a couple scant pictures, I recall feeling rather chilly as I changed from shorts into a spare pair of pants I at least had the foresight to bring. Then we headed down. Like I said, it was a while ago, details are a bit lost on me now, and I wasn't thinking of making good TRs when deciding to take photos.
Trip 2 - October 3, 2021
The second trip I remembered a bit more, and at least had the wherewithal to record the trip on my phone so I had a GPX (and according to personal rules, could then submit this peak as complete on peakbagger). I had a coworker at the time who wanted to hike together, so one day we decided on this, as it was accessible even for those without gear or the desire to suffer through tons of elevation gain or distance.
Unlike the last time, it was totally dry, so this trip was just a calm walk with some optional fun scrambling I did off-trail to get the various sub-peaks on the way to Seymour, nothing fancy. Sadly I didn't take many pictures, but this is an exceedingly well-documented area, so hopefully a few token view photos will suffice.