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Trip Report
Trip Date:
17-Sep-2020
Activity:
Scramble
Trip name:
Ptarmigan Peak
Coordinator:
Jack
Report:

Seven of us met at Fish Creek parking lot at 9:00 am, and by 9:15 am were walking up the road to Temple Lodge. We continued on the trail to Skoki, turning off at the trail to Hidden Lake. Shortly after walking through the busy Hidden Lake campground, we turned up the cutline mentioned by Bob Spirko in his trip report. This proved to be a nice easy way to walk through a beautiful larch forest (the larches are now in prime condition) to treeline. From there we followed the scree slopes to the summit ridge, which has one interesting scrambly bit just before the summit, at which we arrived about 1:00 pm. There was quite a bit of smoke obscuring the views on this day, but it was surprisingly warm. After a 45 minute lunch, we began our descent, which required the group to stay close together due to rockfall hazard through the narrowest part of the scree slope. We arrived back at the cars at 4:45 pm.

Thanks to this strong group consisting of Sim,Bill,Gary,Susan,Gary,John for joining me Jack(C/S) on this great day in the mountains. Thanks also to Bill and Susan for the great photos. And a special thanks to Bill for offering to be my mentor, on this my second of three mentored trips as a probationary coordinator.




Ptarmigan Peak, looking at our route up the scree slope.





Susan scrambling on Ptarmigan Peak





Gary and Susan on Ptarmigan Peak's summit ridge.





Looking at Skoki Lakes (Myosotis and Zigadenus) from summit of Ptarmigan Peak.





Looking back at our route from the summit. Pika Peak and Mount Richardson in the background





Gary, Susan, Gary, John, Sim, Bill on summit of Ptarmigan Peak





Summit Photo No. 2:Gary, John, Gary, Bill, Sim, Jack




Total Elevation Gain: 1277 m

Distance: 20.0 km

Total time: 7.5 hours