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Ridges at Upper Canyon Creek | 2008-10-11
Ridges at Upper Canyon Creek
- Location: Kananaskis Country (Highway 66/68)
- Activity: Scrambling
- Height: 2,563 m (8,409 ft)
- Elevation Gain: 1,150 m (3,773 ft)
- Distance: 16.7 km / Loop (10.4 mi)
- Avg Steepness: 7.8°
- Estimated Time: 7-9 hrs
- Technicality: Intermediate
- Fitness Level: Hard
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Pink line is the actual track I took which was recorded by my GPS.
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Ridges at Upper Canyon Creek | 2008-10-11
It was a cold day. In fact it was the first cold winter day for the season, even though it was only Oct. The temperature was -10 C (14 F). Got new snow and all, I didn’t care much. I had to hike anyway.
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Ridges at Upper Canyon Creek | 2008-10-11
So I went to unnamed ridges at Upper Canyon Creek. I don't even know if the name of this creek "Upper Canyon Creek" is the real name.
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Ridges at Upper Canyon Creek | 2008-10-11
This dude appeared suddenly from cliff and glided right beside me and he did that twice. I think he wanted to eat me.
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Ridges at Upper Canyon Creek | 2008-10-11
This is a good picture. Mouse over to see where I walked. As you can see there are series of ridges I could go.
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Ridges at Upper Canyon Creek | 2008-10-11
Mountain behind is called Mount Bryant. There is a scramble route. Have to come back some day.
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Ridges at Upper Canyon Creek | 2008-10-11
What a beautiful day it was. Calm blue sky.
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Ridges at Upper Canyon Creek | 2008-10-11
From the second highest peak I hiked that day. Looking at the last peak and the tallest peak I went.
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Ridges at Upper Canyon Creek | 2008-10-11
Despite of cold air, there was no wind and still somewhat strong sun light made it warm while I was moving.
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Ridges at Upper Canyon Creek | 2008-10-11
There was a close call when I was hiking there. I made mistake and I only had two choices. Jump off or go back and come back up on another route. I decided to jump off from about 6 to 7 feet high It should be ok right? But that is as long as landing is flat I found it out in a hard way. I jumped off and landed such steep angled slope I couldn't hang on and I rolled backward. If I couldn't stop myself from rolling for another 5 feet, I could have fallen off from another 6 feet height step. I could have seriously injured myself in middle of nowhere. But that didn't matter I don't think, I was smiling when I stopped and only thinking about taking picture of this spot... Adrenalin rush didn't happen. I had more adrenalin rush when I almost dropped a bread from a shelf at a store.
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Ridges at Upper Canyon Creek | 2008-10-11
From the tallest peak. There are more ridges from here but the time was up. Originally I planed to go all the ridges you see here but obviously that was too much for a day hike.
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