Great Divide Route

Monkman Trailhead

Mt Barton - End of Rockies + Divide

Mt. Stern Campground inc. RV

Fork
Hiker trail is the left fork. It's easier to follow but muddier. Horse trail is right. It is longer and can be vague but is less muddy.

Possible Cave location

CAN DRIVE TO HERE AUG 2021

south end of mining road

Can drive to here (June 2022)

End pave

Nice outfitter camp

Cabin
See trail guide on Kakwa.jjv for trail description to Moonias Pass

Lost trail

Nice camp

Nice meadowcamp

camp

steep

Two Lakes

Leave Roadbed

Deadhorse Meadows 4WD Trailhead

Lick Ck Trailhead (2WD)

Start trail

Park

Camp

Cliff Band

Minnes Pass

Last 8k peak

Tent

Open, some rhodo

Mod. game trail

Open clearings

Open woods

Turn down here for lake

Tall rhodos

Good glade

Open forest, light rhodos

Camping, pond for water

Camp spot

Lookout point

Open krummholz and glades

Open

Firepit

Wide open, grassy, wet

cabin??

Good

Parallel creek, mod. rhodos

Preferred route

Small falls

preferred side

Open, gt

Pass

Open forest

1st cliff ascent

Camp 4 "Gusty" Lake

2nd cliff bypass

steep bush descent

Crossed here to avoid oxbows, swamp downstream

thick bush ascent

Camp 5 Wet Meadow Camp

avalanche path descent

Great

Trail

Old Horse camp

amazing path up/down

ATV trailhead & Ford

cairn

okay spot to cross

easier open walking here

Good Place to Cross

okay Camp spot on river bank

bigger small pond

can Meadow hop from here down to river

Deadhorse Meadows Staging Area

valley possible

good path up

good

Ford

Devil's Creek Campsite

Cairn

Beaver Dams!

Cairn - Proposed End of Section H / GDR

game trails

clear ridge up

trail

FS&SnB made it to here

Kakwa Provincial Park Boundary

end rocks, start schwack

Devil's Creek Campground (1km)

ridge possible

Fork - hikers/horses

fork - stay left

easy walking, plateau

end schwack, start easy subalpine

Trail Splits - go right

White Bark Pine

entrance to good path down

Cascades Campground (1km)

Placemark 1

Camp Spot along river

decent travel between here and river (way out)

Cascades Campsite

fork - blaze to the right

helicopter pad, and view

small pond

good streambed

viewpoint

Trot Camp

log cross

side trail to Moore Falls

suspension bridge

good game trail up

Monkman Lake Campsite

Last/First Cairn

Hugh Lake Camp Spot

Murray River Camp

way up cliff band

Pass and Icefield

Miten Pass

Holmes River Road
4WD access road

Grande Cache Road - GPS

FSR

Sheep Creek

Eastern Road

GDT

Access Trail

Eastern Access

Bail

Road

Warner Lakes mining road exit

Shortcut

Better

Horse Trail

Alternate

albright ridge

To Warner Lake 2023-09-09

Better Route

GDR Gmoser 2023 Day 5

GDR Gmoser 2023 Day 4

Possible alternative route?

more direct option?

Better route?
Cross above tributary stream, follow Durston suggestion to meadows on ridge

GDR Gmoser 2023 Day 6

switch sides here

Relief Pass 2023-09-10

better route

GDR

Dan & Ben 2022

See comment
PhD on Kakwa (see adventure folder) says the old horse trail to Moonias pass continued down Moonias Ck to the Narraway.

Old trail see comment
Trail is described in pHd thesis PDF in my adventure folder (pg 115-118)

Best Ford

Friendlier Ascent Route

lake access

alt
less gain/loss, but crosses possibly steep talus

Sukunka Shelf
good foul weather route w nice lake

New pipeline service road (Approx)
Midway access/bailout option (long).
Looks to be quite recent, only appears on Google Maps/Earth sat imagery

Sukunka River FSR
to Don Phillips Way

Access to Sukunka FSR

to Tumbler Ridge
via Murray FSR and Don Phillips Way

Murray Range Trail
established trail

Sukunka FSR to Sukunka Tunnel E

Forest Rds to John Hart Hwy

Thunderstorm bailout

Sketch

GDR2024 Final
GDR route as of Dec 2023

High Alt

Better?

Walker to Edgegrain

Edgegrain low 2

Edgegrain high

edgerain high alt

edgegrain high alt 2