This is a photo of the Lions and Howe Sound from Mount Strachan on Cypress. The easiest way to get there is by way of the Sky chair during ski season. Off season you can hike or snowshoe up.
This is a view of the East Lion from Mount Strachan. That famous fog can engulff you with little notice while on these peaks. Wise to bring a compass so it is. Yesterday I climbed the Lions themselves.
That was a hard hike. There’s no way I’d do it in winter. As it was, crossing the steep snow patches on the last quarter of the climb before the top of the ridge was somewhat hazardous.
Lion's Bay from the Lions. That's basically how far you climb.
I’m the kind of guy that likes to get out of the car, power up a few ridges on snowshoes and enjoy the view from some massive peaks. Hollyburn Ridge, Dam Mountain, Ptarmigan Ridge to name a few. The Lions is longer and harder and somewhat more hazardous at the top with many steep areas where one could fall to their death. Yet this climb didn’t diminish my respect for the Lions at all. It only increased it. Now I’ll just respect them from a far with a deeper reverence.
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