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Coffin Mountain | 2009-10-17
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Pink line is the actual track I took which was recorded by my GPS. I parked at parking 1 due to road condition. If road is good, then you can drive up and park at parking 2. Then you can cut 3.5 km walk.
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Pink line is the actual track I took which was recorded by my GPS. I parked at parking 1 due to road condition. If road is good, then you can drive up and park at parking 2. Then you can cut 3.5 km walk.
This is Coffin Mountain. I wonder how it got this name. The left summit is North summit which is false summit. I soloed this one since I thought all the email from my buddies were about Saturday hike, but they were talking about Sunday. I ended up showing up a day too early at the usual meeting place.
I found this remain of an animal.
A few meters away I found its back born.
Mount Livingstone and you can see part of Saddle Mountain on the right side of Livingstone.
On the way back, I took the scree to get down. Both routes worked fine for me.
At the North summit, I found these footprints. Maybe cougar or wolf.
Once on the North summit, the true summit is only 20 minutes away.
I didn't expected to see Crowsnest Mountain and Seven Sisters from here.
So many mountains. One day I want to backpack all the way from Castle to Kananaskis conquering hundreds of peaks on Great Divide.
Summit picture. From left, Mount Livingstone, Saddle Mountain. I couldn't see Calgary.
Some people asked me what I'm goanna do now. They thought no more hiking until next spring. Well they are wrong. There is no such thing as off season in the Canadian Rockies.