Myself and 4 friends made an attempt on Haynon Peak on Canada Day long weekend that just passed (June 28,29,30 - 2019) and the short description of this route is… "Holy Sh*t". It is only 10km of trail but the most arduous 10km I've ever attempted and we are all very experienced backpackers, climbers, backcountry skiers who frequently hike long distance trails around the world. My map with markup is here: https://caltopo.com/m/R41S THE FSR • Contrary to what some have written the Hydro guys don't seem to care who uses the road. It is open to the public, many of whom use it to get to the rec site at Kwoiek Lake. No gates anywhere that I passed. • The road is in great shape all the way to the Kwoeik Lakes Trail. However beyond Kwoiek Lake the alder is ridiculous and between our two vehicles we lost one side mirror, part of a fender, some trim, and a lot of paint. This is not a route for shiny 4x4s who want to stay shiny. THE KWOIEK CREEK TRAIL • Overall, this is a difficult trail largely due to lots of blowdown, overgrowth, and lack of markers or evidence of trail. Give yourself 50% more time than you'd normally expect. Water is pretty abundant thanks to lots of small streams and then the bigger rivers and lakes. • The river crossing at the north end of Kokwaskey Lake will be the first delay. The official route is fine but some of our group didn’t want to risk crossing the river on the single downed tree about 30ft long. So there is an alternate route that has been flagged, closer to the mouth of the river where it meets the lake, and involves several smaller crossings on logs, and a little bushwhacking. But quite safe. • At Chochiwa Lake you'll run into an area of forest fire destruction. The deadfall and bushwhacking here is crazy and you'll find you're best to try and "tightrope" across as many fallen trees as you can, zig-zagging toward your ultimate route. No markers remain and the trail is gone. Use your GPS to guide you and stay as close to the route as you can. The total area is about 1km. • At almost 1.5km beyond the south end of Chochiwa you'll begin your climb up the steepest part of the entire route. About 330 meters of elevation gain in 700 meters of distance. The trail is there but exceptionally hard to find under the crazy amount of alder and heather overgrowth all the way up. Again, use your GPS to stay as close to the route as you can and find the ribbons that mark the route here and there. On our trip, due to lack of this knowledge and an injury in our party we got caught on this slope at sundown and spent the night in a hasty shelter on a boulder, huddled for warmth. Consider camping at the Hunters Camp at the base of this climb as you'll have no other option for camping until you get up to the lakes. • From there the rest of the trail is an easy section with some bushwhacking, boulders, and a few markers all the way to the first pond next to Tzequa Lakes. There is definitely camping suitable areas at the pond, which is a nice pond, but there should be some at the Tzequa Lakes, though I did not confirm. The mosquitos here in June were relentless too. • Between Tzequa Lakes and Haynon Lake it's more bushwhacking with little or no markers to be found. It's short though, and stunningly beautiful. Follow the river up to the lakes and when you see the boulder field consider using this option as it's faster than bushwhacking. • According to old reports the access to the peak is from Haynon Lake and it was easy to see several routes that could be scrambled from there. We ran out of time and could not afford to hit the peak knowing that we needed a day or more to get back given that we had an injury in our party. But with the beta we gathered we will be back. The area is amazingly beautiful, rich with waterfalls and surrounded by peaks. And I want to see the glaciers hiding behind Haynon.