3 Days on the Hudson's Bay Company Trail
The HBC Trail (Hudson's Bay Company Heritage Trail) is a 74 km fur trade and hunting route through the Cascade Range that connects Hope (on the Coast) with Tulameen (in the Interior). I tried to complete this hike last summer but didn't have a decent weather window with all the heat waves and wildfire smoke. My chance came this year on Canada Day long weekend. I only had 3 days off work which meant covering at least 25 km per day. Thanks RE for dropping me off at the trailhead at 5 AM (Huge thanks also to CH for your support also)! I wanted to get an early start to the day since the western part of the trail was the most strenuous from a net elevation point of view. The route essentially starts at 300m altitude before climbing 1866m up Mount Davis. Peer's Creek The first sections of trail were fairly overgrown and held lots of condensation from the night before, which made it near impossible to stay dry during the ascent. If I was doing this trail ...