Pocket Wildernesses, Vancouver Area

Wilderness Committee Educational Report Vol.06-No.06 - 1987

TWENTY POTENTIAL POCKET WILDERNESSES
IN THE LOWER MAINLAND AREA

Islands of green in a growing sea of clearcuts

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  • 1. Lake Lovely Water Pocket Wilderness. Forested trail leads to popular alpine lake. Mountain climbing area.
  • 2. Pinecone Lake Pocket Wilderness. Large alpine lake, good alpine ridge walking.
  • 3. St. Anne Lakes Pocket Wilderness. A triplet of mountain lakes nestled in a pocket of old growth forest.
  • 4. Eagle Mountain-Lake Country Plateau Corridor Wilderness. Popular trail leads through old growth forest to subalpine plateau. Area has eight lakes, panoramic views of lower main-land. Threatened by logging.

    • Note:


    None of these twenty areas are protected in any way from logging.


    Wilderness areas underlined are featured in this newspaper.


    The numbers correspond with the numbers on the map.


  • 5. Widgeon Lake Pocket Wilderness. Large mountain lake, trout fishing, popular canoe-hiking destination.
  • 6. St. Benedict-Seven Lakes Wilderness. Wilderness hiking opportunities with overnight camping. Seven lakes, big-tree forests, forested and subalpine ridge walks. Numerous access points. Threatened by logging.
  • 7. Olive Lake Pocket Wilderness. Hike through old growth forest to small mountain lake. Threatened by imminent logging.
  • 8. Guy-line Corridor Wilderness. Long, broad high-country ridge. Subalpine forests, lakes, peaks. Well suited to winter wilderness recreation.
  • 9. Statlu Lake Pocket Wilderness. Popular trail leads to one of the prettiest wilderness lakes in southwest B.C. Fishing, hiking, mountaineering. <
  • 10. Upper Eagle Creek Pocket Wilderness. Last remaining valley bottom old growth forest in area between Stave and Harrison Lakes. Virgin forests, waterfalls, world class mountaineering. Threatened by imminent logging.
  • 11. Clear Creek Hot Springs Pocket Wilderness. Hike through old growth forest on old road to wilderness hot springs, mountain lake nearby up forested slopes. Cabin, creek, mountain goats.
  • 12. Slollicum Lake Pocket Wilderness. Trail leads to forested fishing lake.
  • 13. Liumchen Lake Pocket Wilderness. Popular trail leads to high-country lake. Flower meadows, peaks, ridge walks.
  • 14. Pierce Lake Pocket Wilderness. Popular trail leads through old growth forest to wilderness fishing lake. Gateway to mountaineering routes.
  • 15. Ling Lake Pocket Wilderness. Remote wilderness fishing lake guarded by virgin forests and slide alder valley. Flower meadows, good alpine ridge walking.
  • 16. Lindeman-Greendrop-Flora Pocket Wilderness. Extremely popular trail through old growth forest leads to three wilderness fishing lakes. Threatened by logging.
  • 17. Radium Lake Pocket Wilderness. Popular trail through old growth forest leads to subalpine lake. Cabin, mountaineering routes.
  • 18. Hanging Lake Pocket Wilderness. Popular trail through grove of huge old growth cedar trees leads to glacier-fringed subalpine lake.
  • 19. Klesilkwa Lake Pocket Wilderness. Last remaining old growth forested valley in popular Custer Ridge Area. A beautiful mountain lake now threatened by logging.
  • 20. Crescent Lake Pocket Wilderness. Popular trail through old growth forest leads to fishing lake.

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