Volcano to McDougall to Old Baldy
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Approach to Volcano Peak:
We followed Evan-Thomas Fire road for 2.1 km then turned to left to Old Baldy trail (Waypoint "Left"). However there were 2 trails very close to each other. Take the second one which is gated by cairns both sides.
I don't know if there is a trail leads to Volcano Peak AKA Little McDougall. We followed my GPS from previous trip to Volcano. We followed Old Baldy trail for 1.4 km then went off-trail (Waypoint "Off-Trail"). This involves a short bushwhacking then slogging up steep unstable rubbles.
To Mount McDougall:
Follow the ridge. Closer to the summit, there was a down climbing part (page 9). Other than that it's pretty easy.
To Old Baldy Mountain:
Nothing but follow the ridge. We had little fun with scrambling towards the end. It was difficult scrambling but it's easily avoidable (page 19). Just like ridge between Volcano to McDougall, it was pretty easy.
Descent:
There were little bit of slabby sections higher up, after that we had decent scree which speeded up descent time quite a bit. There wasn't any difficulties to get to the lake down bottom. From there we followed Old Baldy trail.
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Quite steep rubble slope. These rocks were quite wabbly even the big ones which made this little bit tiring.
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That is the summit of Volcano Peak.
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Unnamed peak behind.
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McDougall. It wasn't as long as how it looks to get McDoughall from Volcano.
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Little fun with snow.
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Little fun wit ridge.
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Again the unnamed peak which looks impressive enough to have a name.
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The crux downclimb.
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Old Baldy looks near impossible from far below. Still it looks pretty steep from McDougall.
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I was at Glacier National Park in Montana a day before. Peaks there had less snow than peaks in K.C. but still they have glaciers. I don't understand.
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Finishing up McDougall.
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Big peaks of Kananaskis. Mouseover for peak pointers.
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Summit picture with CSMC members.
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Other side is massive cliff.
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Little ups and downs on the way.
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We stayed on slab near the cliff for the last steep section on Old Baldy.
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This is avoidable crux. We could have go to easy scree but decided to scramble up here.
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I think I have done 3 trips with Richard.
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Skipping summit pictures from Old Baldy and showing descend pictures.
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Took this long gully to the lake.