Coast Mountain High Routes

A guide to 46 high routes and alpine traverses in the Coast Mountains.

Coast Mountain High Routes is a guide to 46 summer high routes and alpine traverses in the Coast Mountains. These are the great skyline traverses - off-trail hikes through large remote mountainous regions, continuously in the alpine, and a bit like being on a summit for an entire trip. With elements of thru-hiking, backpacking and mountaineering, you carry your camp on your back, never retrace your steps, and travel over terrain that is always new. All of the routes venture through wilderness regions.

Combined, the routes cover an area that stretches across the width of the Coast Mountains from the deep coastal inlets to the high grasslands of the Chilcotin and span a 600km stretch of the mountains, known as the Pacific Ranges, which lie between Vancouver and Bella Coola, and comprise the southern third of the Coast Mountains.

In some ways the guide is more like a coffee table book with up to a dozen 5"x7" photographs of each high route.

Features

• 46 summer high routes
• Route descriptions
• Trip planning information
• Difficulty ratings
• Routes range from 3 days to 3 weeks
• 2700 km of routes
• 421 days of routes

Detailed digital waypoints for all of the routes can be viewed and downloaded as a kml file from a detailed map at Caltopo.com. The waypoints have been digitized from Google Earth. They are not recorded GPS tracks and cannot be used for navigation. They are offered as a important route planning resource.

Specifications

• Author: John Bladwin
• Dimensions: 8" X 10"
• Pages: 296 pages (525 colour photographs)
• Includes: overview map
• Softcover
• Type: Large format, Sewn binding
• Copyright 2025
• ISBN 978-0-9919479-6-6