Recent Reports

Recent birds reported at Paradise Meadows include Red Crossbills, a family of Olive-side Flycatchers, and a Vaux's Swift. An American Dipper was reported in one of the little waterfalls of Paradise Creek.

Some missing items reported also - a couple of cameras in particular. The Wilderness Centre has a lost & found box if anything is turned in between 9 a.m - 4 p.m - otherwise, Mt. Washington Alpine Resort also has a lost & found - contact them here.

Recent reports from the Buttle Lake area of Strathcona Park, via Gerry Roberts, the SWI director who staffs the Buttle Lake Information Hut:

Marble Meadows - Wheaton Hut  is easily accessible but still lots of snow. Ice-axes and crampons a must if especially if ascending Mount McBride, Marble Peak and Morrison Spire areas.

Marble Meadows: Morrison Spire in the centre,  Marble Peak on the right

Big Interior Mountain - Crampons and ice-axes a must, conditions extremely slippery and difficult even when cutting big deep steps in the ice/frozen snow.
Mount Tom Taylor - Unsafe without crampons and ice-axe.
Crest Mountain Trail - The wasp's nest on the narrow's bridge left handrail has been smashed & treated with wasp killing spray but may still be active or another nest constructed in the area so keep watch.
Cream Lake - Beyond Bedwell Lake towards Cream Lake, the route still mostly snow covered. Little Jim Lake has some open water at the edges. Cream Lake open but Big Jim and Andrew Lakes still frozen and snow covered.
This season there has been more sightings of Cougars than usual, even reports of Cougar in the alpine and on the snow in the Bedwell Lake & Drinkwater Pass area. Here is a link to BC Parks info about safety around wildlife.