VANCOUVER ISLAND ROUTE CARDS © Alpine Pacific Images NINE PEAKS & BIG INTERIOR MOUNTAIN QUICK FACTS MAP: 92 F/5 NINE PEAKS ELEVATION: 1842m/6040ft GRID REF: 1578 STANDARD ROUTE: Main Gully via North East Glacier from You Pass. FIRST ASCENT: Possibly prospectors 1890’s-1900’s NAMED FOR: The mountain’s appearance BIG INTERIOR MOUNTAIN ELEVATION: 1862m/6109ft GRID REF: 1381 STANDARD ROUTE: North West Glaciers from Bedwell Lk FIRST ASCENT: Joseph Drinkwater 1899 NAMED FOR: The mountain’s appearance NINE PEAKS, NORTH ASPECT FROM BIG JIM LAKE ROUTE LIST NINE PEAKS Main Gully: AI1 4th Class ~150m Care with crevasses on glacier and bergschrund in gully. BIG INTERIOR MOUNTAIN North West Glaciers: No technical difficulty. Glacier travel. North East Ridge: Some 4th Class and glacier travel. South East Ridge: Some 3rd Class otherwise a hike from Della Lake NINE PEAKS, NORTH ASPECT, FR BIG INTERIOR MTN. BIG INTERIOR MOUNTAIN, NORTH ASPECT, FROM LITTLE BEDWELL LAKE ACCESS Big Interior Mountain and Nine Peaks are almost exclusively reached from close to the Bedwell/Drinkwater Pass. Approached either from Cream Lake on the Price Creek trail or Bedwell Lake on the Bedwell trail. A cairned route leads to the Main Cirque from BIG INTERIOR MTN, NORTH WEST, FROM MT THELWOOD the gun sight pass on the Bedwell/ Westmin Buttle Lake OVERVIEW Cream Lakes connecting trail, along the North Ridge of Big Interior. Tennent It is possible to climb both from the Lake Mt Myra Price N Della Falls trail in the Drinkwater valley Creek Bedwell which must first be reached by a long Jim Mitchell Lk trail trail boat trip up Great Central Lake. A steep and exposed route climbs up Big Jim alongside Della Falls to Della Lake. Lake Cream Lk Bedwell Bedwell Lake Drinkwater Pass Mt Septimus Della Lk Big Beauty Lk Mt Tom Taylor Interior 9 Peaks Della Falls trail Photocopying hurts small business.