Skyline Hike, Manning Prov. Park, BC

Skyline Hike, Manning Prov. Park.

I started this hike from the Strawberry flats at 6:30am. This was the morning when I had definate proof that a mouse moved into my car and started eating my food!
The hike was aprox. 27 km long and took me 8 hours with plenty of breaks. The visibility was very bad going out; and it finally improved about an hour after I first made it to Mowich camp.

The Skyline 1 hike looks quite nice as it follows a ridge. Briefly this is how my hike went:
6:35am at the Strawberry Flats, I saw 4 deer and a snowshoe rabbit before starting.
6:50am I am heading out. The trip going out was not fun - it was several hours of seeing next to nothing.

8:02am - Finally, a clearing and my first picture. When hiking uphill at a good pace my pulse is 150.
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8:17am I'm at a rocky outcroping, the clouds are low but lifted briefly so I took 2 pictures.
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8:58am I think that I'm at Despair pass - I can't see!
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10:03am I'm at Mowich camp. A small leanto marks the Mowich camp.
You can tell that this part of the trail doesn't see many people.
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The next few pictures were taken over an hour - whenever I had a clearing of the cloud.
10:30am I am now at the Ozeem trail intersection, still hazy, waited 20 min. for some lifting of the cloud. No luck.
11:03am I'm back at the Cabin, 2 pictures, some clearing
11:40am I met a large group of women and took a food break, some cloud is finally clearing.
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11:56pm I climbed a knoll most of the way up Lone Goat Mtn and took these pictures:
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The green carpeted peaks on the right are a bit steeper on the back side. The trail continues to the left of them; giving you a nice view of the valley in the center of the image.
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2:05pm Here is a nice view point very near the junction of Skyline #1 and 2.
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At this point I've follwed the Skyline 1 trail about 15 min from it's intersection with Skyline #2. Here the trail goes thru a nice meadow; and you can see the peaks/ridge which the trail follows.
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3:48pm I'm done.


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