GDT

Distance to GDT: 11km from trailhead to junction with GDT, 6km from the mill site. Elevation gain: 150m.  The access trail is not blazed.  Use the snowmobile trail signage.

Access:  Drive south on Hwy 940 from the junction with Hwy 541 at Highwood House.  After about 11km, pull out on the right at the small parking area at the start of the gated Cataract Creek logging road.  Do not block the gate.  If you reach the Cataract Creek campground, you've gone too far.

The logging road starts downhill to the left and is bikeable.  (The grassy fork to the right goes to Raspberry Ridge fire lookout.)  On reaching the wide valley, ignore the first bridge to the left and head toward the mountains.  After passing a corral, the road crosses Cataract Creek, loops toward the right then crosses back to the north bank.  A long, straight section leads to an old sawmill site, about 5km from the trailhead.  Just past the site, the Lost Creek logging road splits left at a snowmobile trail sign, and crosses Cataract Creek on an old railway bridge, dragged in from who knows where.

On the south bank, go right at the road fork (the left fork is the Cummings Creek logging road).  The road climbs fairly high above Lost Creek.  If there's a cattle fence across the road, leave the gate as you found it. Ignore a snowmobile trail going left.  After about 3.5km, the road drops to the right (west) to cross the creek (bridged) to another signpost.  Go left (right is Faller's snowmobile trail, which eventually meets the Cataract Creek trail between the two bridges).

Valley-bottom meadows along Lost Creek Road

Mt Pierce                                            Mt Farquhar

The road continues south, crossing and recrossing Lost Creek, all on snowmobile bridges.  Shortly past another old sawmill site (log foundation), the junction with the GDT is reached at a small meadow, where a straight cutline veers west-southwest toward the mountains (GDT northbound), while the road continues directly south across Lost Creek on another bridge (GDT southbound).  The Trail is well marked with orange blazes in this area.