Elevation Gain: 744m
Distance: 12.43km
Total Time: 4 hours 9 minutes
Date: May 30th, 2026
Andrea and I were on the hunt for an easy outing near Telkwa and Mount Morice fit the bill perfectly. By the standards of this area, it’s a popular summit although I’m sure you’re unlikely to ever run into anyone on a given weekend. From what I could gather there’s a few routes to get to the summit, but the one we were most interested was up a set of service roads from the south. We just had Andrea’s cross trek so we’d have to see how far we could get and hopefully walk the rest.
From Houston we drove down the Morice FSR and then the Carrier and eventually up some old spur road. We were stopped just a short ways from the end and opted to walk from there. From the labelled end of the road we discovered some sort of 4WD track and followed that for the bulk of the hike. It wasn’t until the last few hundred meters to the summit that we veered off and up to the top.
The summit was adorned with some radio repeaters where we took some shelter from the periodic snow squalls hitting the summit. After the clouds rolled through we had surprisingly good views and took some time to have lunch and hang out.
For the descent we just followed that same road back and except for some fresh bear scat we had the place to ourselves.