Bertha Lake was calm and beautiful today |
Heading up the ridge looking down on Bertha Lake and Alderson Peak in the distance |
Gained the ridge and got a great view of Vimy and Upper Waterton Lake |
Looking down to Cleveland from the ridge of Richards (see the haze) |
Looking down on Waterton town site |
The ridge walk was pretty tough but had some great views along the way |
Now on the south east ridge coming around to the south ridge |
Looking back at the ridge we came from (the ridge on the left was too steep to climb hence we went around it and came up the south ridge of Richards) |
Once we got around the south east ridge we could see the summit but we had to get around one more ridge to reach the route to the top |
Finally we can see what is left, we approached the summit on the right (east) side and came down on the left (west) |
View of Bertha Lake from the Summit |
On top (all the small spots in the picture are bugs!) |
Summit view was great, too bad it was hazy (looking towards Vimy) |
Coming down was slow initially on the cliff bands, then got really good and faster when the scree was nice and loose then towards the end it was very slow. |
This was the easy section coming down |
Found a little pool all dried up in this creek bed we followed down |
Cut line picture almost back in Canada |
Here is my proof of how hot and sweaty I was on this day. My "Swass" (Ass Sweat) as I call it was still quite visible after getting home almost 2 hours after finishing the hike |
Photo sphere picture looking down on Waterton Lake
Panorama on Summit
Photo sphere picture looking down on Bertha Lake
Video on Summit
Mapmyhike Track of Hike
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