North Vancouver Outdoors Club

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Mount Killam, Gambier Island

A team of seven (including new member Garth, welcome Garth) set out on an August 7th that turned out to be Vancouver’s wettest August 7th since records began. A journey of bus, ferry and water taxi took us to the island and immediately it’s a world away from Vancouver. The walk starts on a short stretch of forest road before branching off left to a board walk through mixed woodland. A steady uphill took us to a lunch spot just short of the summit. We decided to head back down to the 3pm ferry rather than carrying on to a misty and wet summit. Lots of climbing over fallen trees on this walk and we look forward to returning to this island on some sunny day in the future.

You can see Iain’s route here and Maya’s Relive track here

The things we find in the forest, photo by Tamsin

Action shot of Garth vaulting a tree, photo by Tamsin