Mount Frosty, Manning Park, BC

Distance: 22 km round trip

Time: 8 hrs return

Elevation Gain: 3770 ft

Difficulty: Hard

Description:

Frosty Mountain is definitely worth the climb. If you have never done any serious hiking in Manning Park, this will give you a good idea of what the fuss is about. The trail starts at the Lightning Lakes day use parking lot. Pay your money for the parking permit, put on your pack and head to the East side of Lightning Lake (Left hand side when facing the lake). Keep going around the lake, cross the damn and you will shortly see a sign for Frosty mountain trail on your left. You start to climb immediately and hike up switch backs for about 7 kms. Here you will find the Frosty creek camp. A little past you will enter the sub alpine and see larch trees, which are peculiar trees that look like evergreens but actually shed their leaves in the fall. As you keep traveling the terrain becomes more open and rocky and leads to a final ridge walk up to the summit. The summit view gives a great panorama of Manning park's mountains and ridges. If it is a clear day and you forget your camera, you will not be happy. To return to the parking lot, head down the same way or do the Windy Joe loop which will take you down a different ridge and add a couple of hours and kms to your hike.

How to get there: Take highway 1 from Chilliwack and head east towards Hope. When you pass Hope, keep your eyes open for the #3 highway exit (Hope - Princeton highway) and make the turn off. Keep following the highway as you pass the hope slide and later, Manning parks west gate. When you get to the Manning park lodge, turn right and follow the road for 3 kms and turn left into the lightning lakes day use area. The drive from Chilliwack takes aprox. 1 hr 20 min.

Suggestions: 1. Bring plenty of water. 2. Make sure you're well protected from the sun (or worse, the rain) 3. Don't forget your camera.

See event description on calendar page for pre-departure meeting place for when the club is doing this hike next.

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