In mid-November we planned a hike up to the top of Sugarloaf Hill, but the weather turned to snow over the last day.    It was just a skiff on the way up, but by the end of the hike snow covered the ground.    The pond on the way up was dry after a summer and fall of drought.  

A good double track leads up the north side to a shoulder of the rocky hill.  

The double track ends right before the slopes become steep and a single track trail winds up through the douglas fir forest. 

We angled out to the west summit first.    This is the rockface that overlooks the Coquihalla Highway.   

The higher area is farther east on a rounded hilltop looking south, but the whole area was wreathed in fog and snowy clouds.   

We retraced our tracks down the hill, being careful on the steep snowy trail.    A map of an earlier hike shows the main route:  

We only hike this route in the off-season, long after any grazing cattle are on the hill.      In some years this is on the snow.    There is rarely any sign of tracks at this time of the year, except those of deer and coyote.   We spotted a squirrel and a couple of birds on this day.    Sugarloaf Hill is a hike we will return to do in the shoulder season next year.