benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - This is the mountain we summited today!
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - The trail starts in a nice forest
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - Breaking out of the forest at about km 1.5
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - Ben in the steep meadow that leads to the grassy col
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - Larry heads to the grassy col
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - First views north from the grassy col
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - A Columbian Ground Squirrel at the grassy col
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - A very small warm spring near the grassy col attracts many hikers
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - Some plants in the high alpine have started to turn colour
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - A nice grade takes into the cirque below the summit
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - To this point, the trail was well defined
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - Hikers ahead approach a small snow patch
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - Wild bees on a Clustered Sawwort / Purple Hawkweed blossom
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - A Pika brings something yummy to its winter stash
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - Arriving at the cirque below the summit, which is just to the right of the small snow patch top right
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - A Least Chipmunk
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - We saw a family of Least Chipmunks in the seeminly barren cirque
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - Ben heads across the cirque
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - We continue upwards
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - Looking up towards the summit ridge
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - The trail below the summit ridge is quite steep
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - Ben midway up to the summit
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - Views to the south open up
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - Video from near the summit
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - From the summit, a zoom shot of Highwood Pass and its trailhead parking area
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - A memorial plaque to a hiker who was struck by lightening and perished here in 1989
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - Summit selfie
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - Ben at the 3134 m's above sea level summit, the highest elevation we've achieved this year
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - Larry does some boot skiing to the cirque
benlarhome: Mist Mountain Summit Hike - Ben boot-skis down the long scree slope