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Falls Bottom |
2 km |
45 min r/t |
Easy |
75 m |
Year Round |
Falls Top |
4 km |
1½ h r/t |
Moderate |
385 m |
March to Nov |
Access: See Getting to Whistler
Map: Squamish 92G/11
From the trailhead described above two additional routes lead to 335 metre-high Shannon Falls where tour bus after tour bus drops off its cargo of flash happy visitors. The first trail is just a single kilometre long and, after crossing Olesen Creek, leads to the bottom of the falls where most of the shutter bugs congregate. The second footpath also crosses the creek, just before the fork leading to the Stawamus Chief’s first and second peaks. Continue climbing steeply to the top of the cascade 1½ km away. Very few of the bus-bound ever make it this far.