9.6km, 842m elevation gain, 5:19 c2c, with Caro Coco, Vlad M, @peakpargee, Marcus Z + Casey 
Summary: For a peak with little online beta, this is an enjoyable hike that involves little bushwacking, offering great mountain and lake views from the summit and ridgeline. Given the distance from Vancouver it was nice to pair this with Fire Mountain (on the previous day). Logging is apparently imminent so conditions may soon change.
Online beta was sparse, with two recorded ascents on Peak Bagger with scant details, a Bivouc TR from May 2021, and some info from Sierra T who had attempted this peak a couple of weeks earlier.
After car camping at the bridge at around 16km on the Fire Lake FSR (there’s plenty of space to park and pitch a few tents, with minimal bugs), we set off in Marcus’s truck to see how much further along the FSR we could get. Most won’t get further than 200m after the bridge where thick alder starts. If you have 4WD HC and literally have zero care about your paint then you can push through and get to 1130m (where a snow patch stopped us).
The initial plod to the end of the FSR at 1280m was uneventful, with only short stretches of alder, but mostly snow covering a very nice roadbed that most vehicles should be able to get up once the snow melts. Snow was continuous past that point, where an obvious shallow gully feature took us roughly south through the forest to 1440m.
We then turned right, continuing through the fairly open forest to gain the ridge, and we then followed the ridgeline towards the summit. The ridge is slightly undulating with a few bumps to go up and over. Some minor routefinding was required to avoid some bluffs and steeper sections. On the way up some sections of snow were a little icy, but had mostly softened by the descent to allow some fun glissading.
There are great views along almost the entire ridge and from the summit. From this angle Fire Mountain didn’t look very impressive, but we could see the dark waters of Fire Lake and the more glacial colour of Glacier Lake (both not visible from Fire Mountain). To the south the Fire Spires (Ember et al) were stunning, and we tried to figure out what peaks in Garibaldi Provincial Park to the west we could see.
We used poles, and carried ice axes (one each), crampons and bear spray (spotted a few bears on the drive in).