https://psingh.ca Outdoor photographer and storyteller in Vancouver. Photographs, camping and road-trip stories, and dated first-hand guides to British Columbia trails. en-ca © 2026 Parveen Singh hello@psingh.ca (Parveen Singh) hello@psingh.ca (Parveen Singh) Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Next.js https://psingh.ca/hikes/black-mountain https://psingh.ca/hikes/black-mountain Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail A 6 km loop from Cypress Bowl to the 1,217 m summit plateau of Black Mountain, past Cabin Lake and a scatter of small alpine tarns, with the Lions to the north and the city to the south. Swimmable in August and a solid snowshoe in February. https://psingh.ca/hikes/bosumarne-falls https://psingh.ca/hikes/bosumarne-falls Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail A 2.6 km return walk off Chilliwack Lake Road to a tiered waterfall with no sign, no lot and no bridge you can rely on. Under an hour of walking, but the creek crossing is the whole story and it is the reason this one is a spring-and-fall trip rather than a freshet trip. https://psingh.ca/hikes/bowen-lookout https://psingh.ca/hikes/bowen-lookout Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail A 4 km return walk on the Howe Sound Crest Trail from Cypress Bowl to a west-facing viewpoint at about 1,030 m over Bowen Island and Howe Sound. Easy in summer, an excellent beginner snowshoe in winter, and the sensible winter turnaround on the HSCT. https://psingh.ca/hikes/crooked-falls https://psingh.ca/hikes/crooked-falls Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail A 6 km round trip up 395 m of steep, rooty forest off Squamish Valley Road to a big unfenced waterfall with the Tantalus Range behind it. Half the length of Shannon Falls' crowd and roughly ten times the effort, which is exactly why it stays quiet. https://psingh.ca/hikes/eagle-bluffs https://psingh.ca/hikes/eagle-bluffs Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail A 9 km lollipop from Cypress Bowl over the 1,217 m Black Mountain plateau and down to a west-facing granite bluff above Horseshoe Bay and Howe Sound. A summer and fall route only. BC Parks strongly discourages winter travel here, and it means it. https://psingh.ca/hikes/elk-mountain https://psingh.ca/hikes/elk-mountain Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail An 8 km return climb of 765 m to an open meadow summit at 1,430 m above Chilliwack, with a paraglider launch just below the top and a view that runs from Cultus Lake to Mount Baker. Steep, relentless, dusty, and one of the first alpine-feeling summits in the valley to melt out. https://psingh.ca/hikes/garibaldi-lake-winter https://psingh.ca/hikes/garibaldi-lake-winter Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail A winter-specific guide to Garibaldi Lake from the Rubble Creek trailhead. No day-use pass applies in winter, the access road may not be plowed to the lot, the switchbacks are a 770 m grind on snow, there is no overnight hut, and BC Parks classes the area as advanced intermediate to advanced backcountry ski touring. https://psingh.ca/hikes/goat-ridge https://psingh.ca/hikes/goat-ridge Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail A 6.8 km return grind from Chilliwack Lake Road to a ridge 1,660 m up, with rope-assisted pitches, a boulder field, and the aerial view down onto Lindeman Lake that everyone has seen and almost nobody has earned. One of the steepest sustained trails in the Fraser Valley. https://psingh.ca/hikes/high-knoll-lookout https://psingh.ca/hikes/high-knoll-lookout Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail A 4.7 km loop from the Quarry Road entrance of Minnekhada Regional Park up to a rock bluff over the Pitt River floodplain. Metro Vancouver gives it 180 m of gain and two hours. It is a short hike with a disproportionate view, a locked gate, and a bear closure you need to read before you drive. https://psingh.ca/hikes/hunter-trail-viewpoint https://psingh.ca/hikes/hunter-trail-viewpoint Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail Roughly 8 km return and 300 metres of gain up an old logging road from the end of Sabo Street in Mission to a clearcut viewpoint over Stave Lake, with Mount Baker from the second lookout. No route-finding, no scrambling, and no shade, which is the trade. https://psingh.ca/hikes/joffre-lakes-winter https://psingh.ca/hikes/joffre-lakes-winter Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail A winter guide to Pipi7íyekw/Joffre Lakes Park. No day-use pass applies from late October to early May, the three lakes freeze white under Matier Glacier, the Duffey is the crux as often as the trail is, and BC Parks tells you to carry a transceiver, probe and shovel here. https://psingh.ca/hikes/jug-island https://psingh.ca/hikes/jug-island Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail A 6 km return walk through təmtəmíxʷtən/Belcarra Regional Park to a small gravel beach facing Jug Island on Indian Arm. Two hours, several genuinely steep pitches, seasonal pay parking that runs out by mid-morning, and a bus that goes to the trailhead. https://psingh.ca/hikes/lindeman-lake https://psingh.ca/hikes/lindeman-lake Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail A 3.4 km return hike off Chilliwack Lake Road to a glacier-fed lake the colour of antifreeze. Short enough for an afternoon, rocky enough that it is not a stroll, and popular enough that parking is the part of the day that actually goes wrong. https://psingh.ca/hikes/mount-cheam https://psingh.ca/hikes/mount-cheam Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail A 9.5 km return walk through subalpine meadows to a 2,104 m summit with a 360 degree view over the Fraser Valley. The trail is moderate. Getting to the trailhead requires a high-clearance 4x4 up a deactivated forest service road, and that road, not the hike, decides whether your day happens. https://psingh.ca/hikes/murrin-loop https://psingh.ca/hikes/murrin-loop Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail A 2 km loop above Browning Lake in Murrin Provincial Park, climbing 130 m of steep bluff to the Quercus Viewpoint over Howe Sound. Extend it onto Jurassic Ridge for rope assists and a steel-rod ladder, then swim in the lake afterward. https://psingh.ca/hikes/norvan-falls https://psingh.ca/hikes/norvan-falls Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail A 14 km return walk up Lynn Creek through Lynn Headwaters Regional Park to a waterfall on Norvan Creek. Only 195 m of gain, which fools people - it is a long day on a rough, muddy trail with a sign-in board, no cell signal and a gate that gets locked at closing. https://psingh.ca/hikes/quarry-rock https://psingh.ca/hikes/quarry-rock Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail A 3.8 km round trip on the Baden Powell Trail to a granite outcrop over Indian Arm. Low enough to stay snow-free all winter, genuinely reachable by bus, and hemmed in by the tightest parking restrictions on the North Shore. https://psingh.ca/hikes/radar-hill https://psingh.ca/hikes/radar-hill Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail A 500 m paved path to the highest viewpoint in the Long Beach Unit of Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, with ramped observation decks, red chairs, and a cairn to the Canadians who held Hill 677 at Kapyong. Fifteen minutes from Tofino, and a Parks Canada entry fee applies. https://psingh.ca/hikes/san-josef-bay https://psingh.ca/hikes/san-josef-bay Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail An easy 2.5 km each way through rainforest to a wide sand beach with sea stacks in Cape Scott Provincial Park, at the far northwest corner of Vancouver Island. Beach camping is allowed and cash-only self-registration applies. The trail is the simple part; the logging road in is the trip. https://psingh.ca/hikes/shannon-falls https://psingh.ca/hikes/shannon-falls Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail A 1 km paved-and-boardwalk stroll to the base of a 335 m waterfall, two minutes off Highway 99 south of Squamish. It is the busiest trail in the Sea to Sky corridor and it is still worth stopping for, provided you understand what you are actually getting. https://psingh.ca/hikes/smoke-bluffs https://psingh.ca/hikes/smoke-bluffs Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail A 27-hectare municipal park in Squamish whose stated purpose is rock climbing, wrapped in a roughly 2.6 km loop trail with Howe Sound and Stawamus Chief viewpoints. Five minutes on foot from downtown, snow-free most of the year, and busy with people on ropes. https://psingh.ca/hikes/st-marks-summit https://psingh.ca/hikes/st-marks-summit Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail An 11 km out-and-back on the Howe Sound Crest Trail from Cypress Bowl to a set of open bluffs at about 1,355 m, looking down Howe Sound with the Lions over your shoulder. The best-value day hike on the North Shore, and the busiest. https://psingh.ca/hikes/steelhead-falls https://psingh.ca/hikes/steelhead-falls Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail Three kilometres return and 75 metres of gain off Dewdney Trunk Road to a waterfall above Hayward Lake, on BC Hydro recreation land with an outhouse and a viewing platform. Genuinely easy, genuinely family-scale, and one of the few Lower Mainland waterfalls that is a reasonable idea in February. https://psingh.ca/hikes/tin-hat-mountain https://psingh.ca/hikes/tin-hat-mountain Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail A 1,185 m summit at kilometre 90 of the 180 km Sunshine Coast Trail, with a free ten-person hut a few minutes below the top and a genuine 360-degree view over 32 lakes, Georgia Strait and the Coast Mountains. First-come, no bookings, and no water up there at all. https://psingh.ca/hikes/tunnel-bluffs https://psingh.ca/hikes/tunnel-bluffs Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail An 11.5 km round trip climbing 470 m from Lions Bay to an open bluff 600 m directly above Howe Sound. I hiked it again on 16 August 2026 for sunset. The view is still the reason to go. The parking is still the thing that will ruin the day if you get it wrong. https://psingh.ca/hikes/unnecessary-mountain https://psingh.ca/hikes/unnecessary-mountain Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail A long, relentlessly steep climb from Lions Bay to a 1,548 m summit on the Howe Sound Crest Trail, named for the fact that early climbers had to go over it to reach the Lions. As a destination in its own right it is one of the best viewpoints on the North Shore. https://psingh.ca/hikes/woodland-falls https://psingh.ca/hikes/woodland-falls Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT trail An 8 km loop off Harper Road into Pinecone Burke Provincial Park to two waterfalls on Prichard Creek. Woodland Falls is the first and smaller one; Sawblade Falls upstream is the reason to come. Free, year-round, and signposted badly enough that you should read the route twice. https://psingh.ca/guides/best-snowshoe-trails-near-vancouver https://psingh.ca/guides/best-snowshoe-trails-near-vancouver Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT guide Four snowshoe routes within two hours of Vancouver, in the order I would actually do them - what each one costs, which passes you need, where the parking falls apart, and which ones put you in avalanche terrain. https://psingh.ca/photo-spots/cypress-lookout-sunset https://psingh.ca/photo-spots/cypress-lookout-sunset Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT photo-spot The roadside pullout on Cypress Bowl Road at 416 m, looking south-south-east across Vancouver, the Lions Gate Bridge and the Strait of Georgia. Free, paved, twenty-five minutes from downtown, and the most reliable city-lights viewpoint in the region. https://psingh.ca/photo-spots/porteau-cove-astro https://psingh.ca/photo-spots/porteau-cove-astro Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT photo-spot A provincial park 40 minutes up the Sea to Sky with a pier, a floating dock and a west-facing view down Átl'ḵa7tsem. Genuinely darker than anywhere else this close to Vancouver - and gated at 11pm, which changes everything about how you shoot it.