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Trip Date: 13-Jun-2010
Activity: Trail Hike
Destination: Cox Hill

Report:

The hint of summer weather brought out a large group who were not scared off by the potential for snow on the trail. The warm day on Saturday appears to have melted off quite a bit of snow that had been encountered by another group on Friday:

Cox Hill summit: June 11th vs 13th

The trail was mostly dry up to the bend where it goes west below the summit ridge and from there it was snowy but quite manageable:

Maria, Nancy & Arnold on Cox Hill trail

The ascent up the north facing slope had some snow patches and the summit ridge was fairly clear under gorgeous sunshine:

Cox Hill summit ridge

There was one snow drift to climb:

Jean, Waheed & Arnold climbing a snowdrift

and then it was lolling in the sun for lunch:

Lunch on Cox Hill

The view of the snowy peaks to the west was admired and entertainment was provided by the antics of some golden mantled ground squirrels and foraging grey-crowned rosy-finches. After a leisurely period of basking in the sun we descended by the alternate route which was mostly snow-free. A few clamatis and calypso orchids were noted on the descent to the hot cars.

Thanks to participants Ghulam & Waheed, Peter, Barbara, a jet-lagged Dorothy-Ann, Laszlo, Jean, Arnold, Nancy, Barbara, Bill, Aldis, Francisco, Maria, Sim, Bernard, Rosanne and Philip. Ron, C/S/P.

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