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Chinook Peak | 2015-07-19
Chinook Peak
- Location: Crowsnest Pass
- Activity: Scrambling
- Height: 2,591 m (8,501 ft)
- Elevation Gain: 1,070 m (3,511 ft)
- Distance: 8.6 km / One Way (From parking) (5.3 mi)
- Avg Steepness: 14.0°
- Estimated Time: 7-10 hrs (Round Trip)
- Technicality: Advanced
- Fitness Level: Hard
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Second day of backpacking trip to Flathead Range in Crowsnest Pass, and going for Chinook Peak. General direction is pretty simple. Straight up if you just look the topo map, but actually it's more confusing than that. At first, its ok, just go straight up, but as you go higher you will question "Where is the summit exactly?", because there are high points on left and right (pic 4). The answer is the right peak. Another problem is some route finding is required. Nearing summit, it gets more rockband-ish, rather than rubbles. I went zig-zag navigating these rockbands to get to the summit.
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Chinook Peak | 2015-07-19
At where getting off trail. From here it's pretty obvious where the summit is.
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Chinook Peak | 2015-07-19
Mount Ptolemy looks quite involved mountain from this side.
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Chinook Peak | 2015-07-19
This is where I started to get confused where the summit is. Rollover mouse to see my route in red line. At the end of the scree, there is a weakness to go over the rockband, then proceed on ledges until the little hump where you can finally get on the ridge top to the summit. (Caution: This info is from my recorded video, but I don't remember the details to crosscheck now, so the red line might not be truly accurate.)
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Chinook Peak | 2015-07-19
This is at where I was pointing in pic 5, and there is a weakness to go around the rockband behind my finger.
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Chinook Peak | 2015-07-19
Terrain changed from easy rubble hike to scrambling and route finding higher up.
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Chinook Peak | 2015-07-19
Flathead Range. Mount Ptolemy in the center.
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