Hike Name: Mount Lougheed
Activity: Hiking/Scrambling
Distance: ~13 km (RT)
Altitude: 3,105 m
Elevation Gain: ~1380 m
Area: Kananaskis (Spray Reservoir)
Crew: Bennett
Time to Summit: 3.5 hours
Lisa's Mom Rating: No
Trailhead: Side of the road on the Smith Dorrien.
Getting There:
From the Trans-Canada (Hwy 1), turn off towards the Nordic Center and continue on this road past the Goat Creek Parking lot and along the Spray Reservoir. Pull over on either side of the road.
Additional Info:
Bennett and I decided to take it easy one morning. We woke up at 830am, and left the house at 10am.. we were planning on doing Mount Jimmy Simpson, but there were some forest fires in the area so we decided not to go too close in case the smoke obscured our views. We still wanted a big hike so we settled on a mountain high on our list - Mount Lougheed! We only saw 2 groups of people this day (it was a Saturday so we were surprised!) but maybe we started late enough that we missed most of the groups.. awesome hike, great views, definitely recommend it!
Hiking up the initial scree
Eon, Aye, and Assiniboine while walking the ridge back towards the scree bowls
Us and the ridge to Lougheed 1 behind
On the summit. Lougheed 3 is the directly connected ridge, and behind it is Wind Mountain. Right behind Bennett is Sparrowhawk.
Hiking back out to the car
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