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Lost Mountain to Anderson Peak | 2009-10-11
Lost Mountain
- Location: Waterton Lakes National Park
- Activity: Scrambling
- Height: 2,509 m (8,232 ft)
- Elevation Gain: 1,430 m (4,692 ft)
- Distance: 17.0 km / Loop (10.6 mi)
- Avg Steepness: 9.6°
- Estimated Time: 7-10 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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Lost Mountain to Anderson Peak | 2009-10-11
Watch out for these dudes, they licked my car all over while I was hiking.
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Lost Mountain to Anderson Peak | 2009-10-11
Red Rock Creek was covered by snow. I know this is Canada but -20 C° in October is unusual. It had been around -10 C° in Calgary for a week, I don't know what is going on. Last winter was so cold, and this winter is already cold. Where did Global Warming go?
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Lost Mountain to Anderson Peak | 2009-10-11
After 1 km of flat walk from Red Rock Canyon Parking, we arrived at already frozen Blakiston Falls.
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Lost Mountain to Anderson Peak | 2009-10-11
About 4.7 km from the parking we found what Nugara's book describes as "an obvious grassy slope". He suggests to take the left of the drainage, but I suggest the right side because it is less bushy.
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Lost Mountain to Anderson Peak | 2009-10-11
On the way to Lost Mountain. If it was dry, there could have been nice scramble spots.
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Lost Mountain to Anderson Peak | 2009-10-11
The temperature dropped from -10 to -20 C° as we went higher. However as windy as it looks in the picture, it was very mild wind.
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Lost Mountain to Anderson Peak | 2009-10-11
Dealing with snow was the factor of this hike. Step-dipping or I prefer this term snow-wacking is 3 times harder than when it's dry.
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Lost Mountain to Anderson Peak | 2009-10-11
Almost at the col. Lost's peak is in sight.
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Lost Mountain to Anderson Peak | 2009-10-11
Right thickness of clouds made the sun little more majestic.
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Lost Mountain to Anderson Peak | 2009-10-11
After 5 hours of hustling finally we reached the peak of Lost Mountain. Looking up the next destination, Anderson Peak.
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Lost Mountain to Anderson Peak | 2009-10-11
Finally after 3 failures of hikes in Waterton, my first peak in Waterton. Mouse over to see names.
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Lost Mountain to Anderson Peak | 2009-10-11
On the way to the peak of Anderson. This is east ridge. Finally my batteries gave up at this point. It was too cold I had to take batteries out and hold them for a while to warm them up to take pictures. So after this I don't have too many pictures.
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Lost Mountain to Anderson Peak | 2009-10-11
From the peak, looking back Lost Mountain.
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Lost Mountain to Anderson Peak | 2009-10-11
Crazy carpeting in the Canadian Rockies!! Awesome!!
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Lost Mountain to Anderson Peak | 2009-10-11
A frozen drainage but it wasn't the only thing frozen. Mark was Hypothermic, 9 hour hiking under such a cold condition was too much for UK guy, we had to stop at a hospital.
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