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Ostracized Peak to Sentry Mountain | 2011-06-12
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Above stats are one way to Ostracized Peak. For full stats for entire traverse, please see page 14.
I took a different route from Kane’s route due to a creek being jowaaaa and guraaaa and I was too scared to walk across the creek with skinhead situation log bridge (page 2). I have to say the log was about 3 m long, but that intense flow of water and the nearly flooded creek wasn’t something I wanted to mess with. If I have to dip myself someday it would have been here. My car was only 70 m away, and my Canadian family’s house was only 10 min away from here, but still I chickened out. ( ﾉД`) So instead I came up with east slope route.
I parked at Info Center’s parking lot, but a better place was park near old logging road which I used for descent where I marked as “Suggested Parking”. Now before I get in trouble, I have to mention that you need to tell lease holder before you use this road which I also found out on the way back (contact info is in page 3). Thanks to this road, I didn’t have to do any bushwhacking at all (at least on the way back). At waypoint “Turn Left 1”, there was a gate with the same please contact sign. The road continued (pink line), but there was a cutline which I could use for shortcut (red line). Either way you will come across a t-intersection. Go west and follow the road, eventually the road becomes a single track trail and that will lead to bottom of east slope. From there it becomes go-wherever-you-want-to-go base.
I nicknamed a peak between Sentry Mountain and Chinook Peak, “Ostracized Peak” at GR710966, since it is the only major peak without a name among Flathead Range peaks which can be seen from highway. Poor dude. This peak is somewhat easy/moderate scramble. On the other hand, I say Sentry Mountain is downgraded to easy scramble from this route.
If you are to try my route, I recommend using my descent route (red line) which is more efficient route.
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