good morning guys welcome back to the channel today Cayleigh and i are hiking tin hat mountain
on the sunshine coast trail so this is a trail that we have been admiring for a while and we are
on the sunshine coast and we thought we gave it a shot the tin hat mountain is just one section of
the sunshine coast trail the whole loop is around a thousand meters of elevation gain in about 18
kilometers we're gonna see if we can figure out a shortcut though so yeah we might just do an up
and down there's a lot of things we want to do um while we're in the Powell River area so let
me make this as quick as possible but also enjoy it yeah we've got some rain coming up in the rest
of the week so we're trying to jam pack all of our activities in today yeah sunshine activities
we're hoping if we just go up and down it'll be about 10 kilometers and a thousand meters
of elevation gate which is a lot better than 18 kilometers that we read on the all trails app
looks like the trail goes up tin hat mountain and then down around lewis lake so probably just take
lewis lake out of that equation the trailhead for this hike is about an hour outside of powell river
it's located along a logging road the main road is in pretty good condition there's a few bumps
we made it here in the campervan no problem so you don't need a 4x4 or anything like that
two-car parking lot right here the road we're walking up right now though if you do have a 4x4
i think you could probably drive up it we decided to walk it because we can probably walk this
faster than we can drive it in the van so we're about halfway i would guess you can see the tin
hat hut straight up there two things we wanted to tell you guys about number one when you're walking
there's like the driving trail and there is a sign that says tin hat summit this way but there's a
fork and you're gonna want a branch off left that's the hiking trail we made the mistake we
walked down the road a bit and you're like we're not on the trail so take a left when you see it
and then after like you can't see the signs from the branch which is kind of annoying but three
steps up you'll see signs that say hiking trail this is the only confusing part of the entire hike
Cayleigh's standing down beside a sign and that sign says tin hat mountain that way
and then you need to go up this trail and there's another sign that says tin hat summit
and sunshine coast trail up this way so this is the way you want to go number two uh David and
i saw bear so last hike we did in Assinaboine we saw a big grizzly um really close we actually got
bluff charged that was really quite that scenario but this time it was just little black bears
i was like is that a cub just because it was so much smaller than the grizzly that we saw
last time just like ran down the hill across the trail in front of us probably about 60 feet but
just a reminder like the five minutes previous to that happening we weren't talking or making very
much noise like we probably should have been so yes carry bear stray carry bear spray stray them
make noise and yeah it's honestly kind of like a cool encounter he was cute and ran
across the trap yeah other than that it's been a beautiful hike so far these open logged areas
the sun is just beating down on us because it's such a clear beautiful
day but we're really excited to get to the top because we should have views forever
we made it this is the view looking east which is really pretty we have these lakes
that lake is lewis lake i can't remember the name of those two this is haslam lake
and then you can see the ocean farther in the background there it's just gorgeous and then
the tin hat hut which is actually super nice in there they've got like a stove a sleeping area
and an eating area so if you wanted to come up and camp for the night you don't have to bring a tent
yeah it's perfect we just uh had some lunch here and now we're going to head up to
there's a tower up top probably a phone tower and we're going to take some more
photos and check out the view we should have a really nice view of the ocean that way so
all in all it took us about an hour and 45 minutes to get up here and that's including our 15 to 20
minute detour so it's actually not that bad of a hike up at all all right so the views from the hut
are beautiful but make sure you climb all the way up to the little tower on the peak it's not very
much further that little tower and there's like 360 degree views there's too many lakes to count
it is you can see glaciers over there like it's absolutely beautiful yeah definitely recommend it
if you're in powell river it's beautiful it's the best hike we've done on the sunshine coast so far
all right so that wraps up the hike all in all it took us about an hour and 45 minutes up
and an hour down and we did not do the loop though so this is just the 10 kilometer kind
of out and back up to tin hat mountain thank you guys so much for watching if you like this
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that you've been doing yeah we'd love to hear from you let us know what you think
of the hike if you've been in the area and we will see you next week see you in the next one