For more information about individual Snowshoeing rentals and tours in each region please refer to each community links on your right.

Snowshoeing
Whistler : Squamish : Pemberton

Sea to Sky, British Columbia, Canada- Whether you are snowshoeing to an alpine lake, trekking out to a warming hut in the mountains or setting out to a peak with some snowboards... the Sea to Sky Country backcountry roads and trails are ideal for winter wonderland exploring on snowshoes.

The region around Whistler, Squamish and Pemberton, BC are lucky to enjoy a large network of gravel roads, mountain biking and hiking trails that during the winter become prime snowshoeing routes. Often on the narrow hiking trails snowshoers will meet no one. It is not until the main gravel roads on some of the traveled routes that you will encounter snowmobilers and cross country skiers.

In the Whistler area snowshoers can enjoy exploring the village along the connecting pathway named the Valley Trail. Some may decide to venture out towards nearby Lost Lake or Green Lake. Some of the long haul snowshoeing adventures lead people into Garibaldi Park and Whistler's Interpretive Forest.

While in Squamish BC there are hiking trails and gravel roads also that transform to snowshoeing routes after the snow falls in the winter months. Some of the routes include the Four Lakes Trail , Brandywine Meadows and the Mamquam River Trails.

Pemberton BC, under the watchful eye of Mount Currie attracts the snowshoeing enthusiasts also as it transforms itself after the snow falls. Some of the logging roads and off roading trails become snowshoe routes leading people out to some of the more popular destinations like the Pemberton Icefields, Birkenhead Lake and Cayoosh Mountain.

Every community develops a snowshoe trail network when the snow falls because, in many cases, the gravel logging roads, hiking and mountain biking trails are the snowshoe routes in the winter months.

The decision whether to venture out with a guide or on your own is an important one. If you are staying local and not venturing out into the backcountry a guide may not be necessary. But, any group not familiar with the area should never venture into the backcountry without a guide. There is little room for mistakes in the wilderness.

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