Mount Currie

July 05, 2026

Mount Currie

Mount Currie - 2591M

316M Prominence

50.24841, -122.78200

July 5, 2026

11H 45M C2C, 11H moving

2385M Ascent and descent

25.9KM

Even though my original plans for Sunday fell apart, I still had lots of motivation for something big. One of my original partners for the Ipsoot plan, Houman, was also still in. I proposed Mount Currie to him and he was in right away. Mount Currie is not exactly a massively prominent peak for this area, but it's massive North Face that rises out of the town of Pemberton some 2000M makes it a very striking peak. I have not climbed any peaks in this area yet, aside from Matier on the Duffy. Currie seemed like a fitting first one for the area, as all locals know and love it. We met up just before 7 and drove from the MX track to the bridge that crosses the Green River. Just after the river there is a small parking area. We managed to get going at 7AM, and the battle began. This is probably one of the biggest days for a single peak with a trail objectives in SWBC, with about 2400M of ascent and descent. The first part of the hike consisted of walking up some deactivated logging roads, until we reached the actual trailhead. From here the plod up the forest began. The start was quite tame, but around 700M the trail starts to get a bit steeper. There are lots of switchbacks for the next 500M. I found that the trail was very well designed and extremely simple to follow. It never felt nearly as steep as a North shore trail. There was tons of blowdown along the trail though. The trail then eased off and passed by a few stagnant ponds, then passed below a rock slide and soon enough we were entering the sub alpine. The summit was still not in sight though, and quite a bit of traversing south while slowly gaining elevation was up ahead. The trail now had snow in a few spots, but it was almost entirely avoidable. We traversed a big boulder field under a sort of western sub summit. The boulder field soon led to the first views of the ridge we would hike up to the summit. To access the ridge we crossed a small creek, which was the first real good water source. After the creek and another smaller boulder field, we did a short little scramble up one of the many little gulleys in front of us. Above the little gully was about 400M of small boulders to hike up to the summit. It was a bit tedious, but overall not too loose at all. The final little bit of ridge to the summit was more enjoyable and scenic. We had another food break on the summit, and took a moment to take all the mandatory pictures and have a look at the log book. We then began the descent and soon ran into a group of four just below the summit. We continued on the same way we had come up, making sure to cut out any unnecessary hiking we did on the way up, and made good time without having any real breaks. We made it back to the car sub 12 hours, and then I took off right away to drive to the Semaphore lakes trailhead for the next day's mission.