Highest Peak on Vancouver's North Shore (Brunswick Mtn)

This old truck. So today we're doing Mount Brunswick. It's the highest mountain on Vancouver's north shore and it's the first one to melt out each year as well so it tends to be our first summit of the Housetown Crest Trail here. And after that we're going to drop back down to the trail junction, climb back up Mount Harvey which is right next to it, and we'll be able to look back at Brunswick and get a nice view. But it's a beautiful day so I think we're going to have some incredible views. So this narrow ridge up here is a good example of an arête which is formed by two glaciers carving out either side of the mountain. And we're just coming up on the first summit of Brunswick but the true summit's just a little bit further just past the helipad we're going to see up here and past a little bit of semi-exposed kind of loose shaley rock. So nice out here. Please add your name and thoughts to the log, safe travels. Jeff Grant, July 11th 2020. It's the third. You should write no bad days. July. And like draw like a palm tree or something. There's two on Harvey I think. So we're on the top of Mount Brunswick named after the HMS Brunswick and next we're going head over to Mount Harvey over there named for Captain Harvey, the captain of the Brunswick. Just a massive cirque. So we just made it back down to the junction on the fire service road after descending from Brunswick and now we are going to start climbing up Harvey. We've got Boyer Island and Bowen Island there, Collins, Apodaca and Mount Gardner. Look at the coloring on the trees below where the lichens are growing. There's the west line, there's the summit. So that's the lines over there, the west line and east line. And the house on Crest Trail actually comes from way over there at Cypress Mountain Resort and follows the ridge here in between the lines and continues along the ridge over David and James Peaks and along here to Magnesia Meadows. And there's still a fair bit of snow in the meadows here but it's melting out really quickly with the heat we've had over the last week or two. And there's actually a couple of tents in there. There's a green tent right in there kind of tucked in the trees and I can see a few people hiking along the trail down there as well. And up above there in the clouds is Mount Brunswick where we just came from and the house on Crest Trail actually traverses along the front side of it there. So we could have just dropped down and gained the house on Crest and followed the ridge along back this way to Harvey but we decided that we needed the extra time on feet and the extra climbing for our training anyway. But the house on Crest Trail here is just an incredible route, 29 kilometers from Cypress to Porto Cove. Just some of the best mountain and ocean views that this area has to offer and I'm really looking forward to coming back and doing it probably in a few weeks once it's melted out and who knows maybe I'll do a film about that one as well. See you guys. Have a good one. So I brought my drone up today in the hopes that I could get it up in the air if it wasn't too busy up here but there is a helicopter circling over there. I think it might be search and rescue so I'm going to play it safe and instead I'm going to show you some footage I shot about five years ago here. It just happens to feature Matt and Audrey as well. Lots of climbing, a bit of distance, another good training day in the books.