“ Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”

- Richard M. Nixon

Moose Mountain Fire Lookout

Elevation: 427m

Round Trip time: 3:20

Difficulty: Easy

Height Gain: 530m

Round Distance: 14.9km

Date: Aug 21 2010

How to get to Moose Mountain?

Directions go here

You can also get turn by turn directions by using our 'Get Directions' function at the top.

Moose Mountain Fire Lookout Trip Log

The trail starts just a few meteres before the parking are as you drive in on the right hand side. It is a relativly wide gravel path.

Shortly after you start the view opens up to your left and you can see what awaits. The long Moose Mountain takes up a lot of the view and you can see the first summit you have to reach before reaching the firelookout on the second.

The trail is like a small roller coaster, it first brings you way down (which you have to walk back up) and shortly after it starts climbing again.

Once you have made it to the top of the first hill it continues going up and down as you head along. The view of the valley is nice from this point as you get a nice unobstructed view through the trees.

Once you get to the base of the first summit its all uphill to the top. There are switch backs along the whole mountain side that help you along.

At the top of the first summit you get your first real good view of the Moose Mountain Fire Lookout. The rocky cliffs make it look like a small fortress. Some are satisfied here as the view is still outstanding and the first summit more then big enough to hold a small town so the chance that you will be squished on the summit on a busy day is next to none.

Follow the wide path down to the base of the true summit. You lose a little bit of elevation here.

The path narrows a lot and circles around the left side the mountain. It more than wide enough for one person to comfortably walk. If you have a very big fear of heights this is the only part you might find challenging as you do have a steep slope on your left.

As you get to the last few meters from the summit, you are greeted by a very solid picnic table. Even on a smoky day as this, the view from the table was phenomenal.

Click here to view in Virtual Bubble Picture of a mini 360 letters

360 VR from Castle Mountain Lookout

On this day there were forest fires in British Columbia which created all the smoke in the air making it hard to see far distances.

Please be patient as it may take a little longer to load then a picture.

To use the VR bubble, simply click and drag in any direction.

Once you reach the heli-pad you have made it to the summit. Since the fire look out sits on the true highest point of the you never 'truly' summit in a sense. The view from all sides is spectacular since the surrounding area is so beautiful. The heli-pad also makes a great spot to sit down and have a snack as you can dangle your feet off the edge of it.

Return the same way. This is just a picture looking back the way you head up showing the angle of the drop a little. The path is very stable and wide enough that it should not pose a problem unless you got it pretty bad for heights.

GPS Plotted Route

GPS overlay of the route to Moose Mountain's Fire Lookout.

Here we see the trail as it heads north for a while gaining and losing elevation as you go over the hills. The zig zags are the switch backs you can take on your way up the first summit.

GPS graph of eleveation for Moose Mountain Fire Lookout.

As you can see you gain and lose pretty frequently along the route. The first big drop on the graph is the first large hill you head down and the last dip near the top is the transition from the first summit to the fire lookout.

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