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Fall Hiking Around Whistler

  • 2013-09-17 10:35:02

    September is my favorite time to hike - perfect temps, no bugs, no crowds. Everything in the alpine is changing color right now, and you can definitely feel the first hints of winter.

    Here are a few pics from around the Whistler Pemberton area. This is at the end of the Pemberton Valley, just before the Hurley FSR. It was so beautiful here I had to stop and take a picture of it. The mountain I'm headed out to climb is in the distance, one of those two little ones. In the center of the picture is Tenquille Mtn.

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    Fog was rolling up out of the valley on the whole hike up. I took about 50 pictures just in this area.

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    Just about every mountain in this area can be scrambled. It's a hiking paradise and the views are unreal. Below is a pic of a melting glacier I passed by. The ice is visible in the steepest section where the snow melted and ran off.

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    Here's one last one, of the Train Glacier. I don't think I could ever get sick of coming to this area. It feels like a gift to be in these places.

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