capn_canuck Posted August 27, 2003 Share Posted August 27, 2003 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rastus Posted August 27, 2003 Share Posted August 27, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coopah Posted August 27, 2003 Share Posted August 27, 2003 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!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capn_canuck Posted August 28, 2003 Author Share Posted August 28, 2003 thanks for the info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capn_canuck Posted September 3, 2003 Author Share Posted September 3, 2003 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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