Yellow Aster Butte

Park: Mt Baker Wilderness Wilderness Area

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Green Trails No. 14 Mt. Shuksan

5.6 km one way.

Terrain: Moderately smooth

Yellow Aster Butte Trailhead: (200 km from Saanich Hall, 7.25k on logging roads, 4wd recommended, ferry required). From Victoria drive to the Sumas border crossing, take the Mt. Baker Hwy (542) to Twin Lakes Road near mile marker 46 (just part the Highway Maintenance sheds, approximately 19km beyond the town of Glacier) turn left and drive about 7.25km to the trailhead. (A $5 parking fee is charged.)

Facilities available at the trailhead include:

Toilets and/or outhouses

Uses

Backpack	Unrated.
Dayhike	Moderate day hike .

Description

This trail branches left off the Tomyhoi Lake Trail approximately 2.5km from the trailhead. It then crosses avalanche slopes and climbs to a bench before reaching a junction. Here you can go up to the 1873m summit of the Butte or descend a steep switchback path, losing some 250 meters, to some campsites amongst the lakes and tarns that dot the meadow floor. Please protect this fragile area, camp only on bare ground, sedge or rock.

Features

This trail features flowers (Fireweed, Indian paintbrush, Purple aster and Western anemone), forests, lakes, meadows and views.

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