Day 1. After arriving
at the Hidden Lake Campground (sk5),
we immediately unpacked, set-up our camp then, planned the scramble.
We started with a traverse to Anthozoan
Mountain, then another traverse to Brachiopod Mountain.
The approach was a little bit long from sk5 but the scenery
along the way was awesome. Our roundtrip camp to camp time took
6:30 hours.
(1) We gained the south ridge of Brachiopod Mountain from the
col after coming back from Anthozoan
Mountain.
(2) Ian chose to angle a bit towards the center of the ridge
to avoid unnecessary elevation gain. The terrain was still
easy at this point.
(1) We had a bit of a challenge when we got closer to the summit.
(2) It took us 1:30hrs to reach the summit from Anthozoan.
The weather for the whole day was a bit windy and chilly,
very cloudy but the view was still awesome.
(1)
On our descent, we went straight down the west slope of the
summit...
(2) ...then we hiked along the meadows and met-up with the
trail along Ptarmigan Lake.
We were back to the campground in 2hrs. We had about an hour
of sunlight left to have dinner and get ready for bed. A good
night is what we intended to have, for our Day
2 scramble.
