 Mount
Collembola
- Canadian Rockies
Sunday June 28
2003
Mt. Collemboa... On a
hot summer day. It's nice, a long hike but the first part in the
forest was warm and sweaty, no breeze to cool me off.
The way is fraught
with junctions so you should employ the use of a guide book or map
but I will give you a few pointers
Start off at Dead
Man's Flats and take the bridge to the old Pigeon Mountain Ski area
(not really the old area but close too it) and find the trailhead
parking for the Centennial Trail.
Once on your way you
will quickly come to some signs including a large one. Left it to
Pigeon Mountain so go straight. Soon you come to another junction
this time three choices are offered but you should take the far left
one, a less traveled road.
Follow this for some
time and eventually a few options branch off to the left. I took the
second one but you can just stay on the main trail. This turns into
the trail to Jubilee Lakes. I started up the slopes towards Mount
Collembola once I reached a steep gully that was alpine meadow.
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Panorama of the Three summits of Mount Lougheed
Mount Allan and the ridge that the Centennial Trail follows
are in the foreground |
Once on the ridge I
had a break. The views down the Bow Corridor towards Cascade
Mountain are fantastic.
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Panorama of the
Bow Corridor and the Trans-Canada Highway
The Three Sisters
are on the left, then is Mount Rundle and Cascade Mountain is
at the far end of the valley
Mount Lady
MacDonald, Grotto Mountain and the Fairholme Range are on the
right |
Once I was below the
summit I decided to scramble up cliffs on the right. That was a
mistake, I soon found my self on steep ledges that are far from
safe. They were down sloping, loose and exposed. I backed off.
The easy way is on
the left (east side) and although it's steeper the ledges are wide
and the moves easy, just a bit of route finding to get through easy.
Once on the summit I just laid back and took photos, ate lunch and
enjoyed the views.
On the way down I
took the scree down towards Jubilee Lakes from below the cliffs.
The route is a long
one, it's about 24k round trip and approximately 1300 meters
elevation gain so be prepared for a longish day
CANADIAN MOUNTAIN PANORAMAS
This is a
poor panorama...... sorry |
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61. Mt.
Collembola
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 he
democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire
that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the
flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing
gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and
sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in
philosophy.
Plato
BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher
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