Well I wanted to knock off a bunch more peaks, so my usual hiking partner my son and I went off for another adventure. We decided to try the biking to Snowshoe campground to save on some time. I forgot how hard it was to bike that route and even harder after the Goat Lake turn off. I had biked to Goat Lake turn off before but not past and it was very much up hill the entire way. It did make for a fast return trip though. So on Google maps I had noticed a ridge west of Avion ridge called Clark Range, so I figured I had to summit that since it was "named" on google, even though it isn't named on any other map I've seen. Anyways none of these summits were too technical, the only tricky part was rejoining the Tamarack Trail from the top of Festurbert. We had to climb slowly down that ridge and once we regained the trail it was smooth sailing home. In total we covered 48 km today, of which 32 was hiking and 16 was biking. It was the farthest I have ever gone in one day and I was feeling it that night. The views were spectacular and the weather couldn't have been nicer. Great day and great memories.
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| Spider web on the trail, proof we were the first in a while to take this trail |
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| Up on Sage pass trail overlooking Twin Lakes with Kishinena Peak in the middle |
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| Heading up Clark Range with a shot looking out towards the Red Rock Rim Traverse |
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| On top of Clark Range looking towards Anderson on left and Blakiston left of center |
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| Looking down on Lost Lake from Clark Range |
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| Looking north towards Castle Peak and barely visible on the left Crowsnest Mountain |
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| On our way down Clark Range |
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| View of our next two peaks on right is Kishinena and in the center is Festubert |
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| Almost two months earlier we had attempted Kishinena Peak and we have a picture taken on this spot but we where standing in 6 inches of snow (late June) |
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| This was as far as we had gone on that snowy day in June (we are glad we turned back that day because we would have never made it safely to the top) |
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| Twin Lakes from the ridge above |
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| We saw lots of horse tracks up on this ridge. I couldn't believe people actually take their horses this far up. |
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| Another shot of Twin Lakes and the Red Rock Valley |
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| Carter on top of Kishinena, there were two high points we figured the true summit in where Carter is |
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| Looking down the Blakiston Valley from Kishinena |
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| Summit number two for the day |
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| Some maps show this little false summit as the true summit so we had to go here as well, notice how much higher the true summit is behind Carter, so I think that the true summit is the higher point |
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| Another view looking back at Kishinena and Clark Range in the distance |
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| Looking south to our next goal for the day, Festubert |
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| Summit number 3 for the day |
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| View of the ridge we would descend to regain the Tamarack Trail |
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| There were a few tricky parts but not too bad |
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| Another shot of Carter coming down from Festubert |
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| Black Bear we saw on the road leaving Red Rock Canyon |
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| Another bear we saw just as we were leaving the park |
Map my Hike track of hike
Panorama on Clark Range
Video on Clark Range
Panorama on Kishinena Peak
Photo Sphere from Kishinena
Video on Kishinena Peak
Panorama on Festubert Peak
Video on Festubert Peak
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