Anif Peak, Mount Mulligan

June 08, 2026

Anif Peak, Mount Mulligan

Anif Peak - 1645M

465M Prominence

49.67405, -123.04618

June 8, 2026

Mount Mulligan - 1534M

146M Prominence

49.68564, -123.04553

June 8, 2026

1230M Ascent and descent

5H 57M C2C, 5H 40M Moving

15.8KM

Today's weather forecasted for more of the same drizzly periodic rain that has been haunting Squamish all week. The morning looked good enough to go out and bag a few mediocre peaks in the morning while it was more dry though. I easily convinced Stella and Molly to join me for the day and we got a 7:50 AM start. The drive in was one of the chillest FSR approaches ever, and after around KM 6 on the Mamquam I turned off on Ray Basin Main, and drove the impeccable road up to around 600M. From here we started the hike up a quite long and monotonous section of older forestry road. After hiking up that road for a solid hour and change, the road rapidly became quite overgrown. Where the alders had overgrown the road it also become quite swampy due to the fact we were in the Ray Creek headwater basin. This initial bushwhack was quite short lived though and we soon crossed a boggy meadow to a small boulder field below a gulley on the North side of Anif peak. This broad gulley system would take us up to the peak's West ridge, within striking distance of the summit. The gulley system we climbed was not too steep, but pretty long. With the constant switching between shrubbery and soft snowy slopes I didn't bother to take out my axe or crampons. At the top of the gulley we continued along soft snow on a flat ridge until we made a few steeper steps through some shrubs, where the true summit was in sight for the first time, and was just a short hike away. We took a break on the summit and then soon started rolling again, We decided to try and make the morning a loop and climb Mount Mulligan rather than descending the way we had come up. The descent down to the Anif-Mulligan col from Anif's North East ridge was fun and mostly just consisted of glissading down various snow patches. At the col the Snow cleared away and we were left to hike through the forests on the South slopes of Mount Mulligan. The forest was an enjoyable ascent for 150M, as the undergrowth was sparse and hiking was fast. From the unremarkable summit, which was flat, tree'd in and not evident, we quickly started making our way down the West side of the peak towards the FSR we had hiked this morning. The descent was quite horrendous, and we had to tackle 200M of thick, quite steep shrubbery and trees. This side, which must have been logged some 20 years ago, was starkly different than the forest cover on the other side of the peak we had come up on. The descent was wet, slippery and pretty miserable up until the FSR. When we finally came out on the FSR though we had bypassed the swampy section, so all that was left to do was hike out on the FSR for an hour and a half in a slight drizzle.