Flash - Garibaldi Trail Run

  Four of us turned up to do the run. Chris ,John, Angus and myself. As Gary said the flowers were few and far between, though they were there,as was the snow. We were going at a pretty easy pace with time to take photos and take in the scenery.The sun was  shining as we left the trail head  just after nine. It took us about 75 minutes or so to get to helm creek campground ,where there was one lonely tent hidden well in the trees. Our hopes for a sunny day were dashed when we finally got into the open ,clouds had come in and just low enough to cover most of the peaks.Helm creek was flowing pretty good , it was a little tricky picking your way across the rocks ,trying to keep your feet dry . But I did manage. I like my feet dry,the other 3 couldn't be bothered and went straight in .We started passing hikers as we got to taylor meadows . We then blasted down the switchbacks, with a little help from a swarm of wasps to make us go a tad quicker.We finished in 3:14  smack in the middle of our estimated time. We then headed back to get the other car and then to the Squamish brew pub for a few beers and some  food. The weather wasn't great but not too bad . I'am hoping to try this again sometime in the fall.


 des

Hi Des,

How was the Rubble Creek Run?  Would be nice to read about it.  The turtlepacers were wondering how long it would take you guys (since it took us the better part of the day to reach Taylor Meadows - albeit with heavy packs)

You can use either the "story" or "blog" function to post something. Hope all went well.  Visibility was poor on Cypress for my little run.  

Hey guys, I just ran this route last week...umm, you'll only find flowers if you bring a shovel for the snow!
It is beautiful up there and there will be almost two weeks of sunshine...oh wait, rain, on top of what we had, but the upper meadows were buried pretty good.

There are a few pics on my flickr account, http://www.flickr.com/photos/garobbins/page7/
of what we had last week.

Have fun up there!

GR