Mount Rexford is a seriously pointy piece of granite laced with alpine routes and just a short ways out of Chilliwack, BC. Now, when you think of Chilliwack, BC, you probably don't think of huge, jagged, pointy spires, I mean, from the Trans Canada, it's all rolling hills and farm land. Here, let me google that for you in case you're unfamiliar. See what I mean? Not where you expect to find a bunch of alpine climbs.

Now, you wouldn't know it from my last few trip reports, but I do actually live in Calgary and normally call the Rockies home, but thanks to the vagaries of life and long-distance relationships, I've had the opportunity to knock out a few coastal objectives recently and this past weekend we decided that instead of doing our usual and heading up the Sea to Sky, we'd head east on the Trans Canada and check out Mount Rexford.

Saturday morning, Tash, Christine, and I loaded into Christine's logging road crusher - her Honda Fit - and headed East.

Getting There

Mount Rexford can be climbed from either the East or the West side. The East side has longer routes but our plan called for us to approach Saturday, climb and get back to the car on Sunday and then somehow have me make a 6am flight back to Calgary on Monday morning. After chatting with a buddy who had had a similar camp to summit to car effort on the East side take 20 hours, we decided that for the sake of my making my flight, we'd stick to the shorter routes on the West side.

Here's a map to the East side/West side decision point on the drive in. We made it to that point without issue in our Honda Fit. When we got to the tee, we turned right since we were headed to a West side route, and if you're headed East, there'a apparently a locked gate you need to get a key for - so uh, go do some research on that logistical faff before you go that way.