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Panorama from our turn-around point
King Creek Ridge
Kananaskis
February 20, 2011
Taking advantage of the incomplete snowshoe trail that we hammered out last week in insufferable conditions up the steep slope, Dinah and I returned to King Creek Ridge. After reaching our turn-around point from before, we still had to contend with pockets of deep, soft snow, but managed to reach the ridge crest in three hours.
Once on the crest, travel was relatively easy. We snowshoed along a semi-open ridge until the trees closed in. At that point, we had gained 550 m, but the summit was still well over a kilometre away. However, we had grown weary and were content to stop there, so we turned around and headed back down, but not before taking photos of winter scenery under azure skies.
King Creek Ridge: we snowshoed along the ridge until we reached the wooded area in the centre of the ridge
The steep grade throughout the slope does not lend itself to easy snowshoeing
Mount Wintour to the south
Snowshoeing through bushes
Kananaskis Valley below
Another view of the valley as we approach the crest of the ridge
On the crest with Mount Blane filling the view
Travel along the ridge
More open ridge
The summit is barely visible between the trees on the left. Mount Hood on the right.