August 2015 The BCMC trail starts just east of the Grouse Grind and heads up to the top of the Gondola on a slightly more gentle route. With the increasing popularity of the Grouse Grind, more people are using the BCMC trail to escape the crowds on the Grind or to go downhill, as the Grind is ascent only. In the past two years, erosion has become very [...]
For 15 years, the FMCBC has expressed concern over the Garibaldi at Squamish (GAS) ski resort project, maintaining that if accepted, Squamish could lose the very reasons people are attracted to the area. The proposed $3.5 million resort at Brohm Ridge includes hotels, resort condos, extensive ski runs, and a projected 1.9 million annual visits to GAS. The FMCBC contends that this level of development will negatively impact [...]
By all accounts, our Friday night presentation of Pinecone Burke Provincial Park at UBC was a success!
Despite several stakeholder initiatives to resolve the zoning of a large area in the vicinity of Cloudburst Mountain, Tricouni Mountain, Cypress Mountain, Seagram’s Lake, and Brew Mountain, the “unresolved” designation put forward in 2009 by the Sea-to-Sky Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP) persists. So long as this remains the case, the zoning of the area will effectively occur on the basis of individual tenure and access management [...]
The Howe Sound Crest Trail project is progressing satisfactorily and the trail is increasingly popular. This can have its drawbacks due to the constant interruptions to machine work, and in 2015 it is hoped to get the trail crew started early. However there are already signs that this lack of snowpack may also have the effect of closing the backcountry if a fire season closure is declared early [...]
