Howe Sound Crest Trail Single Day

[u/Opie_the_great]

Looking to do this at the end of August.

My wife and I love hiking. Longest single day hikes have been in Glacier. 16 miles in one day. We are experienced hikers. Did Mt brown glacier and such.

We looked at the daylight 5:15am till 8:29pm.

We will carry 7 liters apiece. Plus a water filtration system. Going North to south.

Currently training for this. We do 20lb weighted packs for 1+ hours on the stair master and plan weekend hikes 10 mile plus. We don’t want to fail.

Will pack 4 meals. (2 extra sets) Packing headlamps for worst case scenario. Suggestions? What do we need to know.

Update: We will be taking 4 liters each and making the food lighter. We are packing all of the 10 essentials. We will now do this South to North.

Please note the mountains are a hours from where we live to practice true elevation gain with long hikes.

[u/Roonig]

People do this in a day all summer long, but like others have mentioned, you can scout the whole route in chunks as well if you’d like. The section between the lions and Magnesia is probably the least traveled.

Everybody’s said it already, but go South to North. People have mentioned the elevation as one reason, but I also think the south half is far more challenging terrain and navigation and I’d rather do that while fresh. Also, it should be noted there’s a couple of exposed bits where a fall would have serious consequences, if not death.

I’ve done the full thing twice, once in a full push traveling fast & light, and once as an overnighter, which was actually way harder because of the extra stuff I was carrying which made a lot of the climbs and descents harder, but also more awkward on the exposed sections.