To reach this, we needed to take a gondola ride to the visitors' lodge, and then the chair lift to the summit. It wasn't a clear day as we'd hoped, but on reaching the summit we found ourselves above the clouds with nothing but blue sky above us and surrounded by cloud-skirted mountain ranges for miles in every direction.
After taking in the views, we set off on the 6 miles trek which started by leading us down into the clouds and along some precarious rock ridges which made for a tricky and slow start.
Eventually the walk started to level into a pleasant stroll along mountainside meadows. We spotted a couple of chipmunks here and even managed to spot a Hoary Marmot sun bathing on a boulder. Or doing the best could given we were still walking through the clouds!
Eventually the path reached a rather tricky section which involved hoisting ourselves along a boulder face and down onto a metal walkway. Apart from a few wobbly knees, this wasn't too troublesome.
From here, the path turned around the opposite side of the mountain and from here the cloud and mist finally listed, giving us a glorious view across the valley followed between Whistler Mountain and it's neighbour Blackcomb mountain. The path continued down past some small mountain lakes and streams before finally heading back upwards on a gruelling trek back up to the Gondola station.
After pulling ourselves up the stairs of the visitors lodge, we sat down to a well earned lunch after what amounted to a 4.5 hour hike.
Next we caught the Peak2Peak gondola over to Blackcomb which is both the highest gondola in the world, and the longest span between ropeway towers. On Blackcomb we spotted even more Marmots, but with the hike still taking its toll, we didn't hang for long and instead headed back to Whistler.
Rather than take the same route down, we took two chair lifts down from the summit, which took us back through the chilly cloud layer and back to Whistler.
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