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Hikers training for their climb.

Next weekend a group of hikers and Abbotsford police officers will climb Mount Baker in honour of slain Abbotsford Const. John Davidson.

CTV News reports Davidson and Const. Jason Baskin used to regularly talk about climbing Baker, trying to put together plans with other hiking enthusiasts in the department to summit the U.S. peak.

Davidson was killed in the line of duty in November 2017 before those plans ever came to fruition. 

"John considered climbing Mount Baker to be a bucket list hike for him," Baskin told CTV. "It's something he wanted to do, and I can sort of complete the goal for him."

He hopes to leave a token at the top of the 3,286-metre peak in memory of Davidson.

"It looks over the city of Abbotsford, which is why John and I often talked about it," he said of the mountain's significance. "We can see it pretty much from anywhere in Abbotsford."

The man accused of Davidson's murder — 66-year-old Oscar Arfmann — is currently on trial.

with files from CTV Vancouver