Time: 10:00AM–12:00PM

The next SFURA walk will be to Dog Mountain in Mount Seymour Park, on Wednesday, September 22 at 10 AM. David Ryeburn will lead the walk.

Although the walk is not long or strenuous, parts of it are rough and lightweight hiking boots are recommended. If you regularly use one or two walking sticks, you will want to bring them on this walk! If the weather is good, the bluffs overlooking the Seymour River at the turn-around point are a fine place to enjoy a picnic lunch. If we cancel the walk because of rain, we may reschedule it later before snow covers the trails. Carry water! – what little there is along the trail is probably not fit for human consumption.

Driving directions:

Ridesharing is encouraged. To start the process, the walk leader – David Ryeburn – can offer rides to four others, leaving at 9:00 AM from 5960 Buchanan St., Burnaby. Contact him by email or phone 604-298-7913.

Take Exit 22 (Mt. Seymour Parkway) from the Upper Levels Highway and drive East, turning North onto the Mt. Seymour Road. Drive to the end and park in the uppermost parking lot. Purchase a day pass from the machine near the end of the lot and near the trailhead. This machine takes only Loonies (i.e. does not accept Toonies); it may accept smaller coins, but bring three Loonies to be safe (unless you display on your dashboard one of the annual $25 parking passes good at all provincial parks). Washrooms are nearby.

The route we will walk:

Map. We will begin by walking north a very short distance along the main hikers' trail to Mt. Seymour, but soon we will switch to a less well-maintained trail which traverses Dinkey Peak. There are several viewpoints along this portion of the route. We then will drop down a bit in altitude and go partly around First Lake. The trail, now much rougher in places, wanders up and occasionally down a bit and ends at the bluffs on Dog Mountain, where we will eat lunch. The return route will be the same until we get to First Lake, at which point we will continue along a different trail directly to the parking lot without re-ascending Dinkey Peak.

Since this part of the park is full of unofficial and abandoned trails, some of which may at first look more appealing than the ones we will follow, it is important for the group to stay close together. The correct route is safe, but the walk-leader does not want to have to search for people who try their own variations.

Special note: If anyone is interested in leading a walk or walks, please contact us. (To continue having walks every week, we will need more leaders.)