Cloudburst Mountain

September 06, 2025

Cloudburst Mountain

Cloudburst Mountain - 1871M

1049M Prominence

49.93357, - 123.23628

September 6, 2025

8H C2C, 7H 15M Moving

1275M Ascent and Descent

16.6KM

After a few days of sport climbing in Squamish with my sister I was getting tired of it, and felt the need to go stand on top of a mountain. After some back an forth over the endless options around here we decided on Cloudburst. I tried to find some beta and downloaded a few GPXs, but I think most of them started from the upper Squamish valley side, and after hearing about the conditions of that road I didn't want to drive it. Instead we accessed it from chance creek FSR, and hoped we could drive as close as possible. We were only able to drive up to 800 meters, but that would be more than enough and still be easily doable in a short-ish day. We got hiking at 8AM and started walking down the road past the mining do not enter sign. We hiked past a huge log blocking the road and walked along a dirt bike trail for a bit. We then started one of two short bushwhacks on the ascent in order to try and save some time. I am not sure they really ended up saving any time, and they were quite unenjoyable. After the first bushwhack we walked a bit of logging road and that took us to the mega shed cabin. Behind the cabin we did the second bushwhack up to a higher road at 1000M elevation. From here we walked up yet another short section of logging road and eventually made it to the start of the chance lake trail, where bold drivers will access to. The trail was easy to follow and took us past a marshy meadowy section. We then traversed a bit of a boulder field and proceeded to climb this boulder field up to Chance lake. After grabbing a quick drink of water in the creek, we started making our way up a long slope of boulders. This brought us up to some sort of a bowl, that briefly flattened out and then we continued our ascent up this broad gulley with some steep rock to our right. From this point we finally got a view of the summit, and not much else as it was still incredibly smoky everywhere. We followed a sort of bumpy North East ridge up plenty of false summits. We tried to stick to the more solid rock on the climbers left of the gulley at around 1750M on the ascent. It was slightly scrambly in bits, but never exposed, and all quite fun an easy. After passing a few bumps we could finally see the green towers on the summit, and we were at the top. We ate lunch and creatively imagined what views we might have had on a different day. After a half hour lunch break we started to make our way back down, this time sticking a bit more to the gulley after the first 100 meters of descent. This was probably not a good move as it was quite loose and the solid rock scrambling on the face was far more enjoyable. The rest of the way down was a retrace of our steps. We followed the same path down to the lake, past the boulder fields and through the marsh. Once we were back on the logging roads I decided that I was not interested in re doing the two small bush whacks, so we added a bit of extra time and distance and just followed the zig zagging FSR's back to the truck.