Snowshoeing,
Elfin Lakes
February 12, 2005  

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The sun is breaking out at the end of this trip.
103 Hikes Trail No. 23 Elfin Lakes.

It was a cloudy and rainy day. Our car couldn't even make it up to the trailhead parking lot because of the packed ice and snow. We had to hike an extra kilometre to get to the trailhead.

A few Burnaby Outdoor Club members and I went up to the Elfin Lakes, Diamond Head area in the Garibaldi Park. It was a foggy day to begin with. Snow wasn't even deep enough to snowshoe on in the trailhead. But anyways we put them on and started our uphill section.

On the way, there were not much to see except the foggy weather. However, even with this weather we saw a lot of other outdoor enthusiasts going up to Elfin Lakes on skis, groups after groups.


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The extra kilometre ...
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Putting on
snowshoes at the trailhead

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Foggy and Cloudy

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My ski poles
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Deeper snow as we
gained elevation
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Shelter at
Red Heather Meadows

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Very steamy inside the shelter
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Heavy fog came
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Why do they wrap the sign post?

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Passing through ....

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Nothing but heavy fog !
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Will love to ski on this hill ...
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Wow !!


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Quite a bit of snow
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Frosty branches!
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As we're going down,
a lot of people are coming up
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I think they should ship some
of this snow to Cypress !

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We are not supposed to feed them, but .....

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Who wants some marshmallow ??

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Finally we see blue sky ..
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Blue sky came a bit too late for us.

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Not bad !!
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Tantalus Range



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