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What: 1185m. A rewarding bag with excellent views.
Where: Mount Fromme is located to the east of the Grouse Mountain resort above North Vancouver, BC.
| Difficulty: |
2/5 |
Well-marked trail |
| Runnability: |
4/5 |
Popular access trails offer many opportunities to open it up |
| Peak view: |
4/5
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Partially-obscured views of surrounding peaks and valleys. |
| Scenery: |
4/5 |
Mostly second growth forests. Small lake. |
| Children: |
4/5 |
Child friendly |
| Dogs: |
5/5 |
Great for dogs |
Route overview: Mount Fromme can be approached from 3 directions. All approaches offer a great deal of variety for the novice bagger. Note that there are 2 peaks with the flatter, more open one being the highest, and therefore the "money" peak!
Trip distance: From the Grouse parking lot, roughly 3 km. From end of paved Mountain Highway, roughly 2.5 km.
Trip time: From Grouse parking lot, plan for 2 - 3 hours. From end of paved Mountain Highway, plan for 1.5- 2 hours. This assumes a moderate running pace and some contingency for getting lost.
Safety:
- Cellular coverage is inconsistent, but usually available.
- GPS spotty under tree cover
- Peak lodge at Grouse.
- Recommend you bring your Baggers Companion
Name Origin: Named after J.M. Fromme, the reeve [mayor] of North Vancouver in the 1920's, and logging operator whose company had obtained timber rights on this mountain..
Headwaters for: Mosquito Creek.
Getting there: Drive to Grouse Mountain or, alternatively, to the end of Mountain Highway. Note: Parking near the top of Mountain Highway is hard to find. Do not park in the resident parking. You will be ticketed!
Route Details: Mount Fromme is east of the Grouse Mountain ski area. There are 2 primary routes.
From base of Grouse
- from ski area parking lot, take the Grouse Grind to the alpine chalet. Good to get water here.
- take the ski area access road/old Mountain Highway downhill and past the Olympic Chair. When the road bends right at the bottom of the saddle between the 2 mountains, look left for a small trail that parallels a creek
- where the trail forks, go right and steeply uphill to the peak (note, the near peak is the lower of the 2)
From top of Mountain Highway
- from the gate at the end of the pavement, take the dirt and gravel Old Mountain Highway roughly 7 km uphill.
- at a bend in the road where it flattens out, go right and into a large stone quarry
- in the far left corner of the quarry, look for flagging. Take this beautiful trail uphill to the peak
- peak is flat and open
- either return the same way, or drop down one of the small trails on the side of Fromme back down to Mountain highway and consider continuing on to bag Grouse (see Grouse Mountain)
Neighboring peaks:
- Bagger Challenge peaks Grouse Mountain and Dam Mountain are relatively close. Several other Grouse area peaks are baggable within same day by a strong runner
Submitted by: Ean Jackson and David Crerar
More information:
- description from Club Tread
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