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Distance: 15.0Km   Elevation: 1280m   High Point: 1525m  
Location: BC, Canada
Summary: Soon after you drive into Lions Bay, turn left to Crossing Creek road to cross Harvey Creek. It will be more than 2 hours of hiking to cross it again by a small hanging bridge. Harvey Creek is located between Mount Harvey and the Lions. The trailhead is located at 225m altitude and on the left slopes of Mount Harvey Ridge. About 23 minutes later, you come at the first junction (380m). The steep and high cliffs of Harvey is visible now. Take the right trail as we want to be in the area between Harvey and the Lions. Magnesia Creek could be audible now. Magensia Creek separates Mount Harvey and Brunswick and we will not cross it. After 45 minutes and after doing few switchbacks you come cross another junction (560m), take right. The trail then traverses slowly around Harvey Ridge without any switchbacks. You will come across other junctions, take always the right one. At about 700m of altitude, you will see Unnecessary North Peak and along its ridge is the Lions. The bridge is not too far now. Continue straight along the trail till you see on the right side a treed ridge. It is about 400m higher but looks less than that as it is round. The bridge is located just on the foothill of that ridge at altitude 780m. Once you are on the other side of the creek, the trail switches back and forth a long the east face of the ridge. At about 950m, the trail will be just outside of Unnecessary bowl. The trail direction is almost east. You will also notice the trees are intact close to the bowl as they were proctected against the blow-down caused by the storm happened few years ago. Once you get to Shoulder (~1250m), the west face of the West Lion is visible.
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I went up with some friends August 18, 2012. Beautiful summer day, not much snow on the trail. There were a lot of people at the trail head   more →
Mood and date: Aug 18, 2012
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AWESOME!  →
Date: May 10, 2012
The Lions/Binkert Trail
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Even though the clouds were rolling in and obscuring a lot of the view, this was still a great hike. We had good views of the Howe Sound Islands,   more →
Mood and date: Oct 23, 2011
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Ahh finally, a beautiful sunny day. The Lions trail was crowded as one might expect, but the trail is in pretty decent condition. You only   more →
Mood and date: Aug 01, 2011
The Lions/Binkert Trail
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If you've hiked to The Lions from Cypress, you should give it a try from the Binkert Trail. This was actually a pretty fun hike. The first   more →
Mood and date: Sep 25, 2010
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The Lions. 모든 사진은 상업적으로 복사나 전제할 수 없습니다. 캐나다 밴쿠버 주변의 일일 산행 기록 산 야생화   more →
Mood and date: Jul 31, 2010
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I always plan to go early but then end up going late. I started at 9:25am in a very nice weather perhaps too nice. The first section before the   more →
Date: May 28, 2009
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