From the top of Mt. Prevost you can really see the lay of the land from either peak. One peak has a cairn for those who have fallen in WWI and WWII, the other peak is popular with hang gliders. The road to Mt. Prevost is open to the public every day, but it is a backroad that sees a lot of atv and motorbike use and mountain bikers. This is a seasonal road and so during the dry summer it is often closed, but access is still open on foot or pedal bike. Drive slow, keep your headlights on and only your navigator's eyes on the gps.
All the Island Spirit Legacy Caches are within a 2 steps of the trail, unless otherwise noted. There is no need to bushwack or trample the vegetation.
The Two Sickers
Mount Sicker lies north of Mount Prevost and consists of two peaks...Big Sicker at 714 metres and Little Sicker at 660 metres. It has been suggested through local lore, that this small mountain, which played a vital role in the history of the valley, was named after a transient local resident called Sicca, who built a cabin there. Mount Sicker was the location of a copper strike at the turn of the last century, resulting in three mines, Lenora, Tyee and Richard III. As many as 2000 people lived on Mount Sicker during the copper boom extracting 1,107 kgs of gold, 22,955 kgs of silver and 9,180 tonnes of copper, all extracted out of 229,000 tonnes of ore, largely by manual labour.