We ditched heavy gears at the campground and proceeded towards Bald Mountain – our objective for the first day. Generally considered a moderately challenging route. It’s 12 km one way to an old campground which is also the fork between Bald Mountain and Copperstain Mountain. Get to know this 2.3-mile out-and-back trail near Oquossoc, Maine. There’s little to see on this approach except for the marshes and meadows (and the notorious mosquitoes). After this bit of excitement we were back to the long boring hike. ![]() It was knee deep at the toughest section and the cold water was flowing fast. More than half of the volume of Spillimacheen River comes from Baird Brook and we had to carefully select a line through. Catching up a couple hours’ sleep, we woke up at about 7 am and started our trip shortly after. We easily hiked the remaining section (very rough) of this logging road to the real trail-head, and then down to Spillimacheen River and followed it to the major crossing of Baird Brook. GPX DLĮric did a great job driving all the way to trail-head in dark and we got there at about 3 am in the morning. There would be many prime bivy sites and we also wanted to take advantage of the morning/evening views.īald Mountain and Copperstain Mountain ascent route. Well, based on the statistics we could certainly do it in one day, but given the potential afternoon thunderstorms with extremely high temperature we wanted to play a bit more conservatively. To make the trip more enjoyable we decided to do it over 2 days. The approach would not be from Rogers Pass though, instead we had to drive southwards from Golden to Parsons, and then drive 55.7 km one-way on Spillimacheen River FSR followed by turning onto a very narrow and rough side road for the last 4 km. We got the idea from skimming through Hikes around Invermere and Columbia Valley guidebook. These two peaks are directly to the west of Sir Donald/Illecillewaet Neve across Beaver River Valley, therefore, guarantee to have fine views. Were we correct? Nope, I think the smoke problem has become an issue for the entire BC and Alberta…Īfter the intense mountaineering trip last week I wasn’t very keen on difficult objectives so we decided to hike up Bald Mountain and Copperstain Mountain. At least that’s very far away from David Thompson Country. Several canyons are located below Bald Mountain. This is also part of the Wasatch 100 race held in September each year. ![]() The mountain is approached from the Great Western Trail. It is on a prominent ridge overlooking East Canyon, Emigration Canyon and Parleys Canyon. We wanted to take advantage of the sun but at the meantime, away from the smoke so we figured it might be better to drive way far southwest into the Purcells. Bald Mountain is located at the southern end of the Northern Wasatch Mountains. Eric and I were planning a trip on this past Monday and Tuesday, but it was difficult to finalize the objective. Hot and sunny has been the trend for nearly 10 days already smoky because of the wild fire in David Thompson Country. The recent weather was somewhat okay – sunny but very hot and smoky.
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