Background:

Having previous experience in locating high altitude archaeological sites, Rudy Reimer initiated this project (ARCAS 1999; Reimer 1998). The purpose was to find and locate the occurrence of verbally reported sites and survey additional areas for archaeological materials. Previous survey and test excavations at sub-alpine and alpine sites in Squamish Traditional Territory have been conducted by ARCAS Archaeological Consulting. These surveys have located and recorded a number of sub-alpine and alpine sites yielding important information about past settlement and subsistence patterns (ARCAS 1999:1-6).

High altitude resource utilization in the southwestern region of British Columbia has sorely been ignored by archaeologists of the region. The documentation of any new sites in these high land areas offers new insight to settlement and subsistence patterns of the regions prehistory (ARCAS 1999; Burtchard 1998; Fladmark 1985; Mierendorf 1998; Reimer 1998). The primary research objectives of this project were to;

1) Visit and assess the condition of previously know and recorded archaeological sites,