BLACK TUSK

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26 km | 1,660 m

Black Tusk is another popular hike that remains incomplete. It can be accessed both from Garibaldi Lake and from the Whistler Interpretive Forest via Microwave Towers. Alltrails has you starting right from HWY 99 but you can drive to the end of Cheakamus Lake Road to cut a good 10 km or so off your hike. Not sure there is a parking lot at the end of the road, the farthest we have driven is to the Loggers Lake parking lot. So perhaps plan on being dropped off. The distance should be about the same from both directions, but if looks like it may be more of a cumulative elevation gain from Whistler (2,100).

The same as Panorama Ridge, you can make this a destination hike from Whistler to the Garibaldi Trail head if you have time to drop a car or have someone come and pick you up.