Hike Log

Mountaineering summits! Big Horn and Ontario peak

Trailhead:

Ice house Canyon

Type of Hike:

Day hike

Trail Conditions:

Trail difficult/impossible to navigate

ROAD:

Road suitable for all vehicles

Bugs:

No bugs

Snow:

Avalanche danger

Started at Ice house canyion trail to saddle.

from there attacked Big Horn peak through its north face. (This requires mountaineering skills, the right footwear and ice tools) you will be facing 2 fake summits that cannot be seing from the saddle. just keep pushing up, snow levels deeper than hip lenght. Some areas hard as ice, othets covered in a 4inch slab very soft snow for at least 2 feet.

 

From big horn. we broke trail descending near the edge ridge  and continued this traveres  towards Ontario peak. clouds were setting in loosing visibility of terrain, at times we could not see our team members.

Ontario peak summit at 2.30 pm when a and clouds gave us a break for our summit picture . No one else summited during our time there.

With clouds coming back in a s light snow dusting we broke trail again on a speed dscend towards Kelly Camp. the terrain here was dangerous to put it lightly, NO HIKER should be f-ing arround here! This is not hiking terrain nor conditions.

From Kelly Camp we broke trail again towards the River canyon, comming out stright into the lower Ice house canyon trail head.

Arrived at the parking lot at 7.15 pm

 

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