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Tetrahedron options. Other written submissions during the BC Parks' comment period, May to June 2018. Part 2 of 2. https://backcountrybc.ca//tetrahedron-options/viewdocument

Tetrahedron options. Comments submitted at the BC Parks' open house events, May 2018. Part 3 of 3. https://backcountrybc.ca//tetrahedron-open-ho/viewdocument

Tetrahedron options. Comments submitted at the BC Parks' open house events, May 2018. Part 2 of 3. https://backcountrybc.ca//tetrahedron-open-ho/viewdocument

Tetrahedron options. Comments submitted at the BC Parks' open house events, May 2018. Part 1 of 3. https://backcountrybc.ca//tetrahedron-open-ho/viewdocument

Tetrahedron options. Comments submitted through the online form on the BC Parks web page. Part 2 of 2. https://backcountrybc.ca//tetrahedron-online-/viewdocument

Tetrahedron options. Comments submitted through the online form on the BC Parks web page. Part 1 of 2. https://backcountrybc.ca//tetrahedron-online-/viewdocument

Making a trail around Watersprite Lake earlier this summer. We used pry bars and winches to clear a path through some massive rocks. The year before, a hiker required evacuation after falling through snow between jagged rocks and cutting deeply into his lower leg.

This is both funny and disturbingly true at the same time.

Senior officials in BC Parks and RSTBC secretly met this summer to figure out how to reduce park visitation in the Sea to Sky corridor. They use the concept of carrying capacity to justify their actions. The practical result is a new policy to tow private vehicles from Stawamus Chief Provincial Park, Joffre Lake Provincial Park and permit only six overnight parking spots for all of the Singing Pass gateway to Garibaldi Provincial Park. There is also limited winter parking for... Callaghan Lake Provincial Park and no free access in winter nor to the adjacent Rainbow Mountain area. Next up is Cerise Creek Conservancy where limited parking is again to be used as the tool to implement capacity management along with a proposed day use reservation system. All this without any public consultation on capacity management and zero provision of alternatives. See more

I want to thank everyone who responded to our campaign to keep Tetrahedron Provincial Park as a Class A park in its entirety. We identified right at the outset that the public involvement process was not comprehensive and not according to the letter of the park master. Of course, BC Parks continued to maintain the opposite. We then showed what a farce the first open house in Sechelt was. The hall was packed and people were turned away. There was insufficient handout material ...Continue reading

Singing Pass Trail Vehicle Access is one of the issues we are working hard on. After more than a decade of neglect and political interference by corporate interests, the public has been denied access to its historic trailhead. Backcountry BC is determined to restore our historic access within the next year or two. Learn more: https://backcountrybc.ca//224-singing-pass-parking-lot-pro