beta for Daniel this time of year?

[capn_canuck]

Anyone been up to Mt. Daniel lately (or around this time of year)? I'm thinking about the southeast ridge from Peggy's Pond. I'm guessing it's an awful lot of loose rock by now?

[Rastus]

I wouldn't worry about loose rock too much up there. There is a well "compacted" trail even through the scree up the route you mention. Definitely not much in the way of steep, loose scree slopes on the standard route.

[Coopah]

Rastus said:

I wouldn't worry about loose rock too much up there. There is a well "compacted" trail even through the scree up the route you mention. Definitely not much in the way of steep, loose scree slopes on the standard route.

Ditto what Rastus said. We climbed the Lynch Glacier back in late July. Our group descended via the SE ridge and had no trouble with loose rock or scree. Pretty easily distinguishable trail all the way up...enjoy!!

[capn_canuck]

thanks for the info.

[capn_canuck]

Went up for a 1 day climb on Monday... plan was to do Hyas Creek/Daniel Glacier. Bugs were pleasantly absent on the hike in and around Peggy's Pond. Hyas Creek glacier was bare with a bunch of pretty small crevasses. Ended up scrambling from the basin up to the upper snowfields over glacier-polished rock at the SW end of the glacier. Had a look over the ridge at the top of the snowfield, but decided to traverse NW towards the saddle between the east summit and the spire on it's NE end. We thought we'd get down to the Daniel Glacier from there, to find out we'd run out at a cliff above the glacier. Coming up out of the basin, we should've headed up to a spot below the spire to get onto the glacier, but the wall leading from the basin up to that point looked a little too smooth to go up. Better to do that early in the year when it's snow covered. Daniel Glacier crevasses were pretty open, so we wouldn't have had time in the day to go that route anyway. By then, we were too late to go back to the SE ridge route and hit the west summit (and still get back out by dark), so we bagged the east peak and called it a day. Really nice views, although there was an awful lot of brown haze to the north from the fires in BC I guess. Descent was a nice scenic walk along the SE ridge.