No sooner than I was back from Stanley Mitchell then we were off on another hike. Monday looked like it was going to be a nice day, so we decided to hike in to the Woodbury Cabin in Kokanee Provincial Park.The route includes a 13 km drive up the Woodbury Creek FSR and an 8 km hike up the valley to the cabin. About 700 meters of elevation gain as well. As we started, it was clear that the day was going to be another stellar mountain day - blue skies, warming temperatures but with that hint of fall in the air.
The Woodbury valley was burned quite extensively in 2003 but vegetation has started to return, most of which was showing fall colors under all the burned tree trunks still standing. A sub-three-hour hike got us to the cabin, situated on a bench overlooking the Woodbury Glacier on the edge of a larch meadow under a number of surrounding granite peaks. It's an oddly-shaped cabin but it sits in an avalanche path (why I have no idea) and has been hit by snow slides in the past, so it's designed to deflect the snow, hence it's shape.
I took an hour to scramble up to a ridge with the desire to see what was on the other side. We were quite close to the main part of Kokanee Prov Park - just over a ridge, but all I could see was the other side of the mountain and down into Keen Creek. There is also a high traverse from another nearby hut, the Silver Spray cabin. A project for next summer.
After wandering around, lunching and such, we headed down, stopping briefly to pick yet more huckleberries. After a round trip of over 16 km, we were at the trailhead, headed for home and supper after another great day in the Koots. A few pictures of the day have been added to the Summer 2009 album on Picasa at: http://picasaweb.google.ca/dave.mcc51/Summer2009#
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