TRAVERSE: BOYD CREEK to TROUT LAKE CITY

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Drive: From the Galena Bay (east) side of the Upper Arrow Lake Ferry, drive two kilometres south on Highway 23 and turn left onto Highway 31. At the T-junction beyond the bridge, turn left (right goes to Trout Lake City). Follow the road northwest and then northeast to Camborne. Zero odometer. This is within range of the Mount Pool massif (BC Forests brochure, Arrow and Kootenay Lake Forest Districts). The best way from Nelson is via Nakusp.
0.0 From Camborne heading north. Camborne is just south of Pool Creek
2km Continue on the east side of the Incomappleux River (do not cross to the west side)  15 km Boyd Creek. A road goes up the north side of Boyd Creek
The roads are for high clearance four wheel drive low range vehicles in their upper portions.

Route: From camp at the head of Boyd Creek, one can climb Un. 2580m. Backpack west around Un. 2580m, then south and camp on the col south of the other Un. 2580m (described at beginning of the Badshot Group). Descend to the southeast to Parisian Creek and backpack up Parisian Creek to the col southeast of Mount Pool. Camp.
Backpack west and high above Mountain Goat Creek, passing west around Un. 8593 feet (2619m), and go south-southwest to camp west of Great Northern Mountain. Curve south and east around the mountain and descend to Trout Lake City.
Brian Pettit, John O. Wheeler, 7/1965.