Somewhere around 23km, 1510m elevation gain.
I went on this trip with the Island Mountain Ramblers again. A few of the people from my first trip with them were here again so it was nice to have some familiar faces.
The weather sucked.. clouded in and no blue sky until we were back at the vehicles. It rained lightly which wasn't too bad except it made the snow conditions a lot worse.
The trip up to Mount Hal was about 6.6km with a lot of logging road to start. There were some very steep sections to get to the top. The few pictures don't really do it justice.
Once we were at the summit of Hal, we continued on to Mount Irwin, which was about another 6km away with a 300m descent before another 500m gain.
By the time we got off Mount Irwin my legs were done. It was a slow grind up to Mount Hal for the second time. Eventually we summited Hal again, had a couple more uphill battles but soon enough, the downhill fun would start.
Mount Hal has some fairly epic hills and to make things a little more fun and easier on the feet, a few of us decided to slide down these hills on our buts. Sure they got a bit wet but who doesn't want to slide down a 100' steep hill?!
We found bear tracks through the snow before we got to Hal and we found Dean Beaulacs tracks between Mount Irwin and Hal. Dean had gone up Irwin from the other side, made it partway to Hal and turned around. It would have been a super tough grind to get both from that side.
On our way out of the area we came across a group of kids who got their 4x4 stuck. Luckily we had a shovel to help dig them out before towing them out of the ditch.
Left home at 7am, back at 10:40pm.
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