Sunday, January 27, 2019

Stories from the Summit: Mt. Baldy in Winter

We spent yesterday scrambling up to the south summit of Mt. Baldy in Kananaskis. For late January, the front ranges are surprisingly bereft of snow. Some stories of note related to this latest adventure:

1) Friday night, Anita asks which mountain we're going to hike. I tell her Mt. Baldy, which we'd done 3 years ago, but in the summer. She thought about it for a while, unfamiliar with what I was talking about. Then, her only memory of that mountain came to her: "Ohhhh! The one where you tore a foot long hole in your shorts!" Yes, hunny, that one. :(

2) When we got to the summit, Jaspaul made his 360 summit video before I'd even had a chance to set my pack down, and without me seeing so I couldn't purposefully interrupt it with random bits of advice. I have nuggets of wisdom to share dammit!

3) When we'd gotten back down into Baldy Pass, we passed by a group that asked us where we'd come from. When we explained we'd gone up the South Summit, they questioned why we didn't do the full loop (North summit traverse), even though they'd only done a short hike to the Pass, and turned around. Innocent enough question I thought, but Jas and Anita were seriously offended, like we'd just been called a bunch of fatasses or something. LOL.

Enjoy the photos. My favourite is the one of the summit beers (plus one anomaly).

Scrambles - Mt. Baldy - Jan 2019-11

Scrambles - Mt. Baldy - Jan 2019-18
Views of mountains for days.

Scrambles - Mt. Baldy - Jan 2019-17
The beginning part of the trek in towards Baldy Pass.

Scrambles - Mt. Baldy - Jan 2019-2

Scrambles - Mt. Baldy - Jan 2019-1

Scrambles - Mt. Baldy - Jan 2019-3

Scrambles - Mt. Baldy - Jan 2019-5

Scrambles - Mt. Baldy - Jan 2019-6

Scrambles - Mt. Baldy - Jan 2019-4

Scrambles - Mt. Baldy - Jan 2019-8

Scrambles - Mt. Baldy - Jan 2019-9

Scrambles - Mt. Baldy - Jan 2019-10

Scrambles - Mt. Baldy - Jan 2019-12
Three Summit Brews... and a soy milk?

Scrambles - Mt. Baldy - Jan 2019-13

Scrambles - Mt. Baldy - Jan 2019-14
It was a wee bit windy. In case you couldn't tell by the way Anita's bundled up.

Scrambles - Mt. Baldy - Jan 2019-15

Scrambles - Mt. Baldy - Jan 2019-20
Jas, showing us that he's some kind of special...

Scrambles - Mt. Baldy - Jan 2019-16
Back down in the pass, it was super warm.

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