Again, we left early in the morning. I got up at 6:45 am and I asked myself why I do this on a sunday. As soon as I looked out of the window I was even less motivated, it rained. Couldn't it be like yesterday when the sun was shining (I recovered from my hike the day before). It was good to know that Arnaud will wait at the UBC Bus loop so I had to go there. We caught the bus at 7:42 am and arrived after a while (bus no. 17) at the bus stop Pender Street. We walked to the Waterfront Station and saw that the Ferry left one minute ago. Our whole plan was destroyed (I looked in the internet for this schedule at translink.bc.ca), we couldn't catch the bus 228 at Londsdale anymore, we would start one hour later. That was not very good because the hike takes about 8 hours (well, that's what the bus says) and it gets dark quite early. How can you walk from Pender to Waterfront in 4 minutes? Anyway, we got up so early (Arnaud slept only 5 hours) and so we want to hike. We caught the next ferry, caught bus no. 229 and afterwards bus no. 210, so we were 40 min. late. Finally we could start our hike. We saw already snow on the cars at the parking lot so we were exited how much snow would be at the top.
Lynn Valley in North Vancouver
our hike
Lynn Valley, a lot of snow far down
the path along the river
Arnaud on a log (well, you could call it bridge)
suspension bridge, interesting for engineers
not such an advanced bridge, but it helps to cross a river
another creek to cross
there was no path anymore, just water was running down between two marks
hungry, that was our first stop after about 2 hours. we walked fast because we knew it will get early dark.
the sky cleared up
now started the steep part, Hanes Valley
looking up
it was exhausting, especially with the slippery snow-ice-what-ever-surface, crampons or an ice axe wouldn't be to bad
