Sunshine Mountain Trail Hike

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Sunshine Mountain Trail is located near Bralorne, BC, which itself can be found 12 km from the end of 103 km-long BC Highway 40, which connects Lillooet with Gold Bridge. This trail has four distinctive parts: an unremarkable hike through a forest, then a neat sub-alpine area, then a dangerous trek across steep and loose-surfaced stretch of the alpine area, followed by a very pleasant nearly flat alpine area close to the peak of Sunshine Mountain.

Unless you are a well-equipped experienced hiker, please limit the hike to the sub-alpine, as the alpine area is a disaster waiting to happen, unless you know what you are doing and have hiking poles and boots. We have all of the above and still managed to fall twice, broke a hiking pole, injured an elbow, and suffered a minor abrasion. The fine views made up for the hurt, but it is a very remote trail, and help will take a long time to arrive should you ever need it.

* All trail distances are based on a GPS odometer and are approximate.

64. Now at the 4.76 km mark of Sunshine Mountain Trail near Bralorne, British Columbia, Canada.

65. Somewhat steep, and still loose stones all around. At 5.06 km.

66. Looking back from the same spot.

67. 70 meters later.

68. At 5.18 km of the trail, we are close to a "saddle", which marks the end of the climbing.

69. At 5.23 km, we have reached the saddle. Coordinates: N 50⁰43.406' W 122⁰46.496'. Elevation: 2,225 meters. The peak is to the left, but there is a fairly large and quite a neat alpine area to be explored straight ahead.

70. At 5.34 km, we are hiking in the (more or less) flat alpine area, with fine views all around.

71. A neat small tree at the 5.47 km mark of Sunshine Mountain hike.

72. The same valley on the right side that we saw earlier in the hike (photo #50). At 5.53 km here.

73. Very fine colours at 5.59 km. We are heading towards a prominent bump in the upper middle-right of the photo.

74. At 5.66 km of Sunshine Mountain Trail.

75. At 5.72 km, we are almost at the bump.

76. And here it is, 200 meters later. Coordinates: N 50⁰43.187' W 122⁰46.147'. Elevation: 2,270 meters.

77-88. Here are 360 degree views from the bump, left to right, followed by three panoramas. Photo #82 shows Sunshine Peak in its entirety.

Here is our video of the views from this location.

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