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Trip Report
Trip Date:
22-Oct-2018
Activity:
Trail hike
Trip name:
King Creek Ridge 338222
Coordinator:
Clifton
Report:

What a brilliant day for a ridge walk - sunny, 17o C at highway, a small breeze. The four of us started up at about 9:30 - a very 'direct' trail swichbacks up the west aspect of the ridge. There were patches of snow/ice on the trail, but nobody felt a need to use the grippers. We reached the ridge (and sunshine) in ~1.5 hours and another hour took us to the high point at the north end. A young man could be heard from far below (yelling to the bears), and he soon ran past us, saying he was on the way to Mt Hood.




Evan Thomas, Packenham and Hood from Ridge

The views were awesome both up and down - the rugged Opal Range peaks to the east; Kent Ridge, French, Jellico, Black Prince, etc to the west; and the mirror-like Kananaskis Lakes in the valley.




A different view of Jelico, French, Smith Dorrien, Murray

We had a nice lunch at the northerly high point. The young guy was there - after getting a good look at all the snow in the gullies on the route up Mt Hood, he (wisely) abandoned the quest for the higher summit.




John, Philip and John at High Point

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The Group at High Point of Ridge

On the way down we stopped again to enjoy the warm afternoon sun and were joined by beautiful green bug a pretty butterfly.




Butterfly - Faunus Anglewing?

Back to the car at ~3:30.

Thank you for joining me on a fine day - Participants: Philip,John,John,and c/scClifton