I live in BC and I am going to say shoes. However, it depends on how high up you are hiking as to whether or not you will encounter snow. The higher you go the more likely you are to be hiking through white stuff. I will hike just about anywhere in my Solomon trail runners and the snow I do run into usually isn’t that deep. Where I live (Kamloops) we often don’t get snow until close to Christmas anyway. In the mountains it can be a different story. You are asking a hard question because there can be a huge difference between the weather in BC and that of the Yukon.

Howie