Possibly The Greatest Hike in Vancouver

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Its August, and that means cold weather ahead for Whistler. One of the best things to do in the warm weather is hike and enjoy the beautiful mountains and hiking trails we have on the sea to sky. The hike we are talking about today isn’t your average hike, its Panorama Ridge. A 30km round trip hike, this isn’t for the faint hearted. We at North Shore Mini Storage love hiking and hope to bring awareness to some of the awesome hikes throughout North Vancouver.

Vancouver’s Greatest Hike: Panorama Ridge

Details:

Location: Garibaldi Provincial Park, Whistler BC

Distance: 30km round trip

Time: 11 Hours

Difficulty: Difficult

The Hike

Before this hike, you should know that it is possible to do in one day, as we did it in a day. You need to bring lots of snacks, and a lunch, as this will burn around 4000 calories, you will get very tired, an energy drink will be helpful. A single water bottle is fine, there are tons of glacial streams to drink from and refill on the way.

Starting in the car park for the famous Garibaldi Lake hike, start on up the mountain the normal way to Garibaldi Lake, this part is around 6km, all up hill so prepare for a climb. You will finally reach a lean to shelter with some maps on it and a fork in the road, going left takes you to Taylor Meadows (Direct Route to Panorama) and right takes you to the Lake. Both ways bring you to Panorama, but if you don’t care for the lake or are pressed for time, go left to Taylor Meadows. Going to the lake will add an extra 3km to your journey.

Going left you will climb for a few km and reach Taylor Meadows, which is a campground and a place many option to stay over night before continuing the rest of the way to Panorama. It is gorgeous.

Continue through Taylor Meadows, stop at the bathrooms as needed and maybe have a snack or two while here, the journey only gets harder. Alright, rested? Good. Continue through the winding meadows, its relatively flat, and brings some false hope the rest of the hike will be easier. As you leave the meadows you come to a junction, left takes you to the famous Black Tusk trail, and straight goes to Panorama Ridge. Continue straight through the winding hills. You will come to a clearing, and can now see the top of Panorama ridge, very far off in the distance. Follow the trail all the way until you reach the end of the forest and start of the almost vertical climb over rocks and snow to Panorama Ridge

Hiking straight up the rock face of Panorama Ridge may break some people, but push through and make it to the top. The views are spectacular. Congrats you made it, sit down, have lunch and try not to think of the 15km trip back down. Take some photos, pat your self on the back and head back down.

If you are looking for one more hike before fall, Panorama Ridge is the hike of hikes, go out and give it a shot.

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Mike Olsen

18:58 16 Oct 19

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01:54 10 Jun 19

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23:06 21 May 19

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01:04 25 Sep 18

Prices are 1/2 the price of other storage units but it shuts down (locked gates) from 10 am - 6 pm except if you have the enormous ground level outside facing units. Those hours are impossible. The technology getting items up to the second story is an actual forklift thats made stationary. You balance your items up the forklift (and you raise the wooden pallet up yourself) Then you must walk up stairs and hope their is a dolly available to wind precariously around tiny turning hallways. Budget carpentry and ancient carpet in the units. The trolleys sound and feel like their from 1980's and are either coached to disobey or they keep their own counsel. They say its secure but I had a neighbor pick something up and they weren't even asked for permission. I explicitly stated only I was to have access. They said they do not let it happen. The locks are your own, but the flip closure is attached by 3/4 wood screws easily and possibly quite quietly could be opened and emptied with no one batting an eye. A kid could detach it with anything. They have "24 hour security" which means a guy lives on site. Does he/she have CCTV access? Probably not, nor would you want that job. Are there motion sensors? Not likely as sometimes the lights won't turn on and finding a switch in the straggly wandering corridors is impossible. They do not offer insurance. You have to sign forms saying all the things you will and won't do, but they are not liable if anything happens: theft, fire, water, vandals, pests etcSo despite all those complaints, its still 4/5 only because of the prices.

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04:22 02 Jun 18

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14:04 20 Feb 17

Reasonable rates, very friendly people. Wooden locker doors only but they have video servailance.

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