We parked our car at the Kananaskis Boundary sign, and headed up the trail at 9:50AM. The weather was sunny and a mild, 12’C. We did not encounter much snow, which made this trip a spring hike. We hiked up Muley Ridge, took a snack-stop near its summit, enjoyed the sun (there was no wind) and admired the view.


Threepoint Mountain (r. 2595m), from Muley Ridge. Bluerock Mountain's northerly outlier at left.

After our break, we decided to do some exploring, heading NW down Muley Ridge into the valley across a small frozen creek, and up the first outlier. Here we enjoyed the view again and sat down in the sun for lunch. We made our group-picture, proudly displaying our trophy


Carl, Doug, Barb and Cornelis on Muley Ridge NW1 Outlier.

After lunch, we descended the first outlier and climbed up the second, lower outlier. Again, the brush was not very dense going down, the going was easy although we encountered some snow and had to circumnavigate some deadfall. The gentle climb up was on grass, the temperature still mild. As we watched, snow-storms were closing in on the Mountains. From here, we could already see our objective across the valley; the large Fir Tree on Carey Ridge. There was some underbrush on the way down, and a frozen creek at the valley bottom, but we easily made it onto the grassy slope up Carey Ridge to the Fir Tree. From the Fir Tree we hiked ~3km South on Carey Ridge, looking back West onto both the Muley Ridge Outliers, until we intersected with the boundary fence. During the day, we saw lots of evidence of Moose and Elk, but only saw a grouse cock ruffling its feathers, and some crows already building a nest. The temperature was still mild, with some sun forcing its way through a thin veil, but Calgary was already in a cold fog.


Muley Ridge's two NW-Outliers via Muley Ridge Summit. Can descend NE to hike up Carry Ridge to the large Fir at coord. 677582/5617582

We followed the boundary fence line for the last 2km, arriving back at the car at 2:50PM after a wonderful day in the Entrance Ridges.


Carl, Barb and Doug hiking South on Carey Ridge

Participants: Barb, Carl, Douglas, Cornelis (coordinator, GPS, Scribe)

Trip Statistics: Return Distance via Muley Ridge NW outliers 1 & 2: 11.3km, 640m Total Climb. Please also refer to the map below (click on map & pictures for detail) (Note: The following Trip descriptions have been updated with this Map: b530, b532, b534.)

Entrance Ridges Hikes Overview: Muley, Carey & John Ware Ridges.