Upper Fraser & Sugarbowl / Full trip pack
Torpy Mountain
- Published distance
- 11.4 km Trip basis unconfirmed
- Elevation gain
- Not established 940 m reported without a clearly matched endpoint
- Walking time
- 4 to 6 hours
- Difficulty
- Hard There and Back
conflicting published itineraries: 11.4 km headline; prose gives 6.5 km to meadows and 8.5 km to camp
Trail reaches meadow, lakeside camping area and higher ridges; listed distances conflict and need reconciliation.
1. Getting there and parking
Access is via the Upper Fraser and Pass Lake forest-road systems, with rough road sections and historical deactivation. Use a current route map and confirm the chosen lower or high-road start before comparing distances.
2. Walking the route
This older Torpy approach includes road walking introduced after deactivation and a 2010 reroute. It climbs toward subalpine meadow around 1,500 m, continues to a small lake and offers further ridge exploration. The source gives separate distances to the meadows, lake campsite and ridge, but its headline total does not clearly match all those stages. Choose the actual road start and turnaround before using the number as a day plan. The short 1.5 km BC Parks Torpy trail begins much higher, while the modern Torpy Mountain summit report starts farther east on Upper Torpy Road; neither should silently replace this older route’s access or metrics.
3. Route map
Published locations only. A complete route line is still needed.
Published locations
Numbered points match the map. Use the role beside each point. A summit or park reference point is not a parking location.
| Place and role | Coordinates | Source and notes |
|---|---|---|
| Torpy Mountain start point of published trip track (parking unverified) | 54.022380 -121.254639 | Embedded trip-map feature 'TorpyMt Track 7/11/24 12:25:11 PM': first recorded coordinate [-121.254639, 54.02238].
Point extracted from the original public trip map. A track start is evidence of where recording began, not certification of parking, legal access, road suitability or the complete route. Source date: 2024 https://hiking.princegeorge.tech/torpy-mountain-summit-in-northern-bc/ |
| 1. Recorded junction junction | 54.032524 -121.233062 | Named point on source trip map; position and feature type retained as factual observations. Source date: 2024-07-12T00:05:29Z https://hiking.princegeorge.tech/torpy-mountain-summit-in-northern-bc/ |
5. Camping, facilities and seasons
Camping and tenting
A campsite has been described beside the small lake. Maintained facilities, current conditions and camping permission terms are unconfirmed.
Season and access
The forest-road state determines how much approach walking is needed. Snow, meltwater and poor visibility affect the alpine continuation, and the separate Fang trail may be closed even when the Torpy basin approach is accessible.
Measurement notes
11.4 km
940 m
Torpy Mountain older approach: 6.5 km to the meadows, 8.5 km to the lake campsite and another 1.4 km toward the ridge. The separate 11.4 km headline has an unclear endpoint and return basis. These values conflict and do not describe the distinct 1.5 km high-road Torpy trail segment.
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