Don’t know why it’s taking so long for me to get around to actually writing this, but here goes. This weekend’s objective: Anniversary Peak in the Bugaboos, spotted during last weekend’s activities from Mt. Mollison.<\/p>\n
The day started early; after a restless sleep due to the seemingly neverending heat, I was actually relieved to get out of bed at midnight and end the charade of sleep. I got up to the Bugaboos parking lot at 2:30 and started hiking. The trail was great, but it led up toward the hut which is on the other side of the valley from my objective, with a very broken, impassable glacier in between. So as the trail left the valley bottom and started its ascent, I stuck on the valley bottom, trying to stay close to the river as to not miss any viable crossing. Alder bashing is never advisable, it took me three hours of maniacal swearing to get the 1200 (horizontal) meters to the rocky scree below the glacier tongue. I saw many crossings that almost went, but on the best one the final stepping stone had a couple inches of fast water on it. I wanted to find something that would be viable on the way back during higher water so I kept searching. Once I reached the top of the creek, with no crossing located, I decided I would go up, over and down the glacier, effectively using it as a bridge to get to the other side. But the glacial ice on the far side was covered by firn snow, or the snow was a bridge over a good size drop. I didn’t feel good about it, so I stuck with a sure thing and kept on up the exposed glacial ice.<\/p>\n
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