During the first week of July I was lucky to join a BCMC group for an ascent up Joffre Peak. On day one we hiked into Keith's Hut. On day two we ascended Joffre Peak. This turned out to be a 15 hour day.
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| Joffre Peak as seen from the hut. |
There was still tons of snow in the alpine.
We scrambles some slopes up to a notch near the summit. We rappelled down into the notch, Ian climbed the sub-summit, and the rest followed on the fixed line. We left both ropes in place for the return.
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| Rappel and fixed line in the notch. |
From the notch, it was a short scramble to the summit. We did not spend any time at the summit and headed back for a lengthy return. We tied both ropes together for some 60 m rappels.
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| Tomas rappels |
Then we descended the same snow-slopes. Moving backwards because they were so steep.
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| Slow and steady on our way home. |
Overall a great day!
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