Mist Mountain

Hike Name: Mist Mountain

Activity: Hiking/Scrambling

Distance: ~12km (RT)

Altitude: 3,143 m

Elevation Gain: 1,330m

Area: Kananaskis Valley

Crew: Travis

Time to Summit: 3 hours

Lisa's Mom Rating: No

Trailhead: ~600m south of the Mount Lipsett Trailhead, there is a shoulder area to park on the northbound side of the road.

Getting There:

From the Trans-Canada (Hwy 1), head south on Kananaskis Trail (Hwy 40). Continue past the turnoff to the Smith-Dorrien. The trailhead is about ten minutes past Ptarmigan Cirque.

Additional Info:

We went for round 2 with this mountain and hit the summit + warm springs! After our first attempt on Mist, we would have been heart broken to have to slog back in a third time. It was a gorgeous day - we were the first ones on the summit, hit the warm springs on the way down, and made it back to the car just 5 minutes AFTER huge storm rolled in. So our timing today was almost perfect!

ps. My legs were still dead from the Temple/Moose Mountain day.. Mist was a struggle for me!

 View of the summit from the Mist Outlier. Just a quick ridge traverse from here to the summit.

 Looking north from the summit

 Looking south from the summit

 Me on the summit ridge

 Kicking the feet up for a nice lunch view on the summit

 Cool warm springs!

The best way to end a hike.. if only this was on every mountain.

Mist Mountain (Attempt)

Hike Name: Mist Mountain (Attempt)
Activity: Hiking/Scrambling

Distance: ~12km (RT)

Altitude: 3,143 m (at summit) 2,948 (our turnaround point)

Elevation Gain: 1,330m (to summit) ~1,200m (our turnaround point)

Area: Kananaskis Valley

Crew: Travis, Stephen

Time to Summit: 2.5 (our turnaround point)

Lisa's Mom Rating: No

Trailhead: ~600m south of the Mount Lipsett Trailhead, there is a shoulder area to park on.

Getting There:

From the Trans-Canada (Hwy 1), head south on Kananaskis Trail (Hwy 40). Continue past the turnoff to the Smith-Dorrien. The trailhead is about ten minutes past Ptarmigan Cirque.

Additional Info:

We had to turn around pretty close to the summit, due to a thunderstorm rolling in. It was pretty disheartening but definitely the right choice. We will definitely come back to summit Mist and of course to bathe in the warm-springs!

 Our first glimpse of the false summit of Mist Mountain

 Snowing where we are. Storm on the right. And to our left we have...

To the left is this storm. When you hear & see this coming at you quick, it's time to go. Especially when the last death on this mountain was due to a lightening strike.

 Snow in July. I love the mountains!

Look how high we already were! Still ~100 vertical meters from the summit.

 Travis on our way back down

 

Beautiful valley on our way down. The peak of mist was thunder storming by this time, I'm glad we left.