Elevation Gain: 1,105m
Distance: 8.2km
Total Time: 5 hours 55 minutes
Date: August 8th, 2026
Andrea and I had been talking about the Sun God mountain area for some time now. It’s an area filled with pristine blue lakes and tarns and scenic ridge tops. It’s also quite popular and we always had something else to go to. Finally on our first full weekend of living in Squamish the stars aligned. By stars aligning I mean, we were too lazy to drive far and wake up early so the Sun God Mountain area finally promised a perfect outing.
We headed out on the Saturday and drove through the overgrown Tenas Creek FSR right to the trail head. An obvious flag marked the start and after only 1m of bush we were in open trail through the forest. At treeline the terrain opened up to a large broad col with a lovely tarn in the center. We contoured around the south side and then followed the south slopes up towards the summit.
Some cairns marked the rest of the way to the top, although it would be hard to end up tricky terrain below the summit. At the top we stopped for a nice lunch break and then started our way down for that tarn on the col. For the return we took a slightly higher route sticking closer to the ridge and for that we were rewarded with some stupendous views of Cerulean Lake.
We stopped for 30 minutes or so to swim in the tarn at the col and then dropped back down into the forest. There was one crappy loose section, but otherwise it was a very amicable return to the car.