Kent's Ice Cream Co.

Little Mountain is the smallest neighborhood in Chilliwack by both area and population, roughly 1,170 people on the slopes and the top of Mount Shannon, northeast of the downtown. Most of the middle of it is forest. The reason the rest of the city comes up here at all is the Little Mountain Stairs and the lookouts at the top, which means a good share of the people on these streets on a warm afternoon arrived on foot and slightly out of breath. That is a useful thing to know about the setting for a dessert shop.

The trade here is seasonal as much as it is geographic. Farm-gate operations out in Greendale, Rosedale and Yarrow open with the weather and shut when it turns, and the counters along the Vedder Crossing and Cultus Lake road live on summer traffic that would not sustain them in November. A shop up a residential hill is a different proposition again, closer to its own neighborhood than to any of the tourist routes. It is not clear whether this is a scoop counter, a small producer, or both, and those are different errands. No hours, phone number or website appear here, though, so the category advice holds in February as much as in July: check before driving up for one specific thing.