Course

1. Start -- Grouse Grind gate
2. Head through the Grouse Grind gate and be sure to keep right, following the Baden-Powell trail.
3. After no more than 200 - 300 m, immediately after passing through a small dip in the trail, follow the BCMC markers to the left and uphill.
4. Follow the BCMC markers for another 50 - 75 minutes until you come out at the top of the Grouse Grind.

1. Go through the Chalet or around the right side to the front.
2. Follow the paved path from the front of the Chalet heading towards the "Birds in Motion" exhibit.
3. Go past the exhibit on your right and follow the gravel road around the right-hand side of the peak towards the "Eye in the Sky" (the wind turbine).  Ignore the ridiculous "Hiking is not Recommended" warning sign.  It's a road!
4. Go past the turbine another 100 m or so to the top of the left chairlift.

PEAK 1: Grouse Mountain.  Congratulations! There's your first bag of the day! 

1. Retrace your steps back to the Chalet.  Simple.

1. Go back through or around the Chalet.
2. Down BCMC back to the start.

Note: Please don't go down the Grouse Grind -- too many people and treacherous at times.

BRONZE distance: ~8.0 km

1. From the peak of Grouse, head back down the road you came up.
2. At the base of the peak (~800m), before returnnig to the paved pathways, go right on the gravel road heading north.
3. After ~600m, you should see a sign that says "Dam Mountain 800m".
4. You'll cross paths with a green water pipe 3 times (twice overhead; once under foot).  At the 3rd encounter, follow the green pipe uphill.
5. Follow the main trail uphill (you should go through a boggy area and by a heli-pad).   At the heli-pad, the main trail continues on the east side of the meadowy area.
6. Very shortly, you'll top out at an exposed rocky area.

PEAK 2: Dam Mountain.  Yay!  There's two!

1. Retrace your steps (mostly -- don't go back up to the peak of Grouse) back to the Chalet.

1. Go back through or around the Chalet.
2. Down BCMC back to the start.

Note: Please don't go down the Grouse Grind -- too many people and treacherous at times.

SILVER distance: ~10.6 km

1. Continue on the trail down the north-east side of Dam Mountain (roughly opposite the direction you came from).  Note: There are lots of little spur trails here and there.  Be sure to stick to the most well-travelled route.
2. After 300 - 400m, you will arrive at a trail junction with a large wire-wrapped rock pile.  These rock piles are bases for trail signs which, for whatever reason, were absent at the time of this writing.  Go left (if the sign is present, this will be the direction indicated for Goat Mountain).
3. After less than 100m you'll come to another junction.   Go left again.  This is the Ridge Trail.
4. Follow the trail for ~1.2km.
5. Just before a drop into an open meadow, there will be a small spur trail to the right.  Go right onto the spur trail.
6. Follow the trail  ~50m to the high point.   There's a slash in a tree here with "L. Goat" and "1320m" written in felt pen.

PEAK 3: Little Goat Mountain.  There's three!  It doesn't get easier than that.  That's the easy ones out of the way!

1. Return on the spur trail back the ~50m to the junction with Ridge Trail.
2. Turn right and go down into the small meadow.
3. Turn right again at the far side of the meadow.
4. After ~100m of downhill, you'll arrive at another junction.
5. Turn right (if the trail sign is present, it will indicate this as the direction opposite to Goat Mountain).  This is Alpine Trail.
6. Follow Alpine Trail to the Zip Lines.
7. Immediately before the Zip Lines, take the trail to the right. 
8. Before long, you will come to the green pipe where you earlier went uphill to Dam Mountain.
9. Continue down the trail/road back to the Chalet.

1. Go back through or around the Chalet.
2. Down BCMC back to the start.

Note: Please don't go down the Grouse Grind -- too many people and treacherous at times.

GOLD distance: ~12.4 km

1. Return on the spur trail back the ~50m to the junction with Ridge Trail.
2. Turn right and go down into the small meadow.
3. Turn right again at the far side of the meadow.
4. After ~100m of downhill, you'll arrive at another junction.
5. Turn sharp left (if the trail sign is present, it will indicate this as the direction to Goat Mountain).  This is Alpine Trail.
6. After ~100m you'll come downhill to a Y junction.  Go straight.  This is trail to Goat Mountain.  The other trail is to Crown Mountain (not part of today's set and much more challenging).
7. Follow the marked trail ~800m to the peak of Goat Mountain.   Expect some significant climbs on this route!

PEAK 4: Goat Mountain.  That's the most challenging mountain in the set.  Well done!

1. Return on Goat Mountain Trail back to the junction with the Alpine Trail (the Y intersection).
2. Go left on Alpine Trail.
3. Follow Alpine Trail to the Zip Lines.
4. Immediately before the Zip Lines, take the trail to the right.  
5. Before long, you will come to the green pipe where you earlier went uphill to Dam Mountain.
6. Continue down the trail/road back to the Chalet.

1. Go back through or around the Chalet.
2. Down BCMC back to the start.

Note: Please don't go down the Grouse Grind -- too many people and treacherous at times.

PLATINUM distance: ~14.2 km

1. TBD