Sunday, 14 August 2016

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.

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