When planning trips I generally lean on a number of resources including existing trip reports, satellite imagery and existing trails/GPS tracks. I’ve included those resources below for your use:
Trip Reports
- Steven Song’s Peak Bagging Journey
- Over 1,100 summits with extremely detailed reports and GPS tracks. A “gold” standard for trip reports and my usual go to for a lot of objectives
- Andrew Knapman’s Best Hikes BC Site
- Great details and review on various summits around BC. Also includes non summit based objectives
- Patrick’s BC Mtn Man Site
- High quality images and trip reports
- SWBC Peak Bagging Facebook Group
- Frequent trip reports from various members of the community. Very useful for current conditions as well
- Climber Kyle
- Rock n’ Rope NW
Route Conditions
- Avalanche and Weather information: avalanche.ca
- Up to date and historical snowline and route condition: https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser
- Route topography and trail information: https://www.alltrails.com/
Forest Service Road Conditions
- BC Forest Service Road Map and Statuses: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=a42873895b3d4ca084ea9730212cacb1
- Bridge Inspections (Useful for determining activation status): https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/ftp/DCK/external/!publish/ENGINEERING/2020%20Bridge%20Inspection%20Reports/
- Logging Company Claims (Useful for contacting about gates): https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/ftp/DCK/external/!publish/OPERATING_AREAS/JAN2019/Licensee%20Operating%20Areas%20Map%20Version%204%20-%20January%202019.pdf