Tuckerbrook is a great, relatively low-risk bc tour. Goodman has a comprehensive description of this tour, except he recommends parking on Wells Rd. which is a crap shoot. You can get towed from there. Instead you can park legally on Coppermine Rd. at the Coppermine trailhead and cut over from there. That's what the houndz and I did yesterday.
If traveling with furry friends, prepare everything carefully because there are lots of people and cars on this road on the weekend PLUS quite a few of the homes have dogs and they have their fill of off-leash mayhem. Crack car door when ready.
Tie up the most unruly houndz and proceed up Coppermine Rd.
Once at actual Coppermine Trail, release houndz who are mostly interested in chasing forest things and leave the public alone. Mostly.
Note that the the Coppermine Trail is super popular and therefore terribly eroded and full of rocks that only disappear when there's a lot of snow.
About half a mile in you will reach a ramp that ascends up to the left, leaving the Coppermine trail along with its icy/rocky conditions as well as the people who produce that.
Stow your dog containment technology and proceed up ramp. You might want to put skins on here.
Promptly lose two of the dogs who are heard yelping off into the distance. Imagine bad big city ski tourist people from Cannon who take your dogs. Talk yourself down from that. Wait for dogs at right off of ramp trail about a quarter mile up from Coppermine intersection. This will allow you to schwack directly to TB. Or you can stay on the ramp trail which will intersect TB much lower down in about half a mile. Dogs return FIFTEEN minutes later.
The schwack climbs a few hundred feet vertical and sometimes navigates along clandestine MTB trails.
Pop out on TB near big tree that was cut through last season.
Proceed up a way or really long ways if you want. It's 3 miles long so you can dial up as much or as little pain/pleasure as you like. The bottom 2 miles are a blue square. The top mile full of switch backs and bumps is a black diamond. There's cell coverage, but I would expect something like a solid hour or more before the cavalry arrives in response to a call. Self-rescue is always your best option. Note that it's skied off here. You can count on this unless you've got first track after a storm. This is a popular trail that
connects to the top of Cannon. It sees a lot of traffic.
Stop and feed doggies.
Have a snack yourself fending off pups as necessary.
Let 'er rip hopefully keeping dog explosion at safe distance.
About a half mile up from Tuckerbrook Rd. bang a left at this unmarked intersection with the ramp trail and enjoy some k & g with occasional down back to the car.
