Had a call from another hiking/skiing friend from town wanting to know if I was interested in climbing Mt Schroeder today. Decisions like these are always so difficult.....Bringing Catherine along just so she could experience the joys of Kootenay bushwhacking, we picked up Osa at 6 am and by 7 am had driven up the Schroeder Creek FSR and arrived at where we figured the hiking should begin. No trail up this mountain either, so it was another couple of hours slowly working our way up a steep ridge, climbing over fallen logs, pushing through alder, Devil's Club and rhododendron bushes. Finally we gained more open ground and only had a few moderate snow slopes and a brief scramble to the summit. Familiar peaks were visible in all directions.
Not really wanting to go downhill through all that brush, we decided to try an alternate route down some very steep snow slopes to a valley bottom that was very close to a logging road. Some of the going was tricky, but we only had a brief battle with the forest before we emerged on the road only a few km from the truck. We were home by mid-afternoon.
Some pictures are available at the end of the "Spring & Summer 2010" web album.
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Thanks for helping me get down that mountain!! xyl
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