Our first Scramblegs outing! An initial scare when Aaron, despite having read the route description several times already, discovered for the first time that we had to cross the border to get to the trailhead. Fortunately, Pip happened to have the original copy of his birth certificate in the car so the Americans let us in. A quick, steep climb up logging roads onto a lovely treed ridge bursting with huckleberry and blueberry bushes (we lost a bit of time here). Then on up into the clouds. The final hour and a half was exciting ridge scrambling, bordering on 5th class in a couple places, on great rock (sandstone). Lunch on the peak with a family of flying ants. We chose to decend the north slope, thinking it would be quicker, but steep snow and scree made us a bit uncomfortable - both kicking ourselves for not bringing ice axes. Cold hands, wet bums, but safely down, we traversed back to the trail below the west ridge, with a bit of fun bushwacking thrown in. A long walk back down the road on tired old legs to the car.
Participants: Pip and Aaron.
Guidebook: Matt Gunn, Scrambles in Southwest British Columbia.
Trip photos
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