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Ascent Time |
Descent Time |
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26 Jul 98 |
5:35 |
2:43 |
26 Jul 98 - Climbing Mt. Bogart means you'll have a very long day.
To climb this mountain, you must first walk the 11 km Ribbon Creek hiking trail to Ribbon
Creek Falls. This trail is mostly flat, but it's still very long. The worst part is having
to walk the trail after you've come off the mountain. This is one mountain where time is
important. You really need to start walking no later than 0800. The climb itself is
pretty easy (assuming you make it through the lower rockband without any problems). Here
we see Mt. Bogart as seen from Mt. Allen. Although, this is not the side you go up, you
can see the valley you must walk through to get to the mountain.
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26 Jul 98 - First, park in the Ribbon Creek parking lot (the very back one).
Anyway, walk along the 11 km path until you get to Ribbon Creek Falls. On your way, you will
pass several little falls, but when you get to Ribbon Creek Falls, you'll know it. If you're
good at mountain biking, you may consider taking your bike, but the trail (after the first 3 km)
gets to be rather rocky and covered with tree roots. There are a couple of sections of the trail
where you might have to carry your bike. If I did this mountain again (God help me), I would
probably bring my bike.
Here we see Ribbon Creek Falls. There's a bench there for out
of shape people to rest. As you stand in front of the falls, the trail is behind you on the right.
You'll see a small arrow pointing the way. This trail will go through woods, and then across an
avalanche gully.
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26 Jul 98 - As you cross the avalanche gully, you will see this image in front of
you. You'll go up this area between these two peaks. Be careful not to follow animal trails that
cross a ledge that runs across the peak on the right. That ledge becomes more and more narrow, and
eventually disappears. Branch off the hiking trail about 10 feet before you get to a run-off coming
out of the col you are trying to cross. Go up a grassy slope and scramble up a few rockbands.
Eventually, you'll need to cross this run-off stream when you see some more bushes. From there,
you'll see more trail markers leading you back towards the peak on the right. When you cross over
the col, you'll do so, just left of the right peak. I would have taken better pictures,
but I left my smaller lense in the car, and only had my zoom lense.
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26 Jul 98 - Once you clear the first set of rockbands, you'll come to a rather
flat meadow. In the back of this meadow, you'll see a small tairn. Above you (on the right) will
be the summit. To make the summit, go up screen slopes through the gully section. The scree here
is the worst kind. It's treadmill going up, and you can't ski on it coming down. This area just
sucks. When you finally make it to the summit, you'll see the trail going up through the rockband.
This rockband isn't as bad as the lower set, so if you made it this far, you can make it the rest
of the way. On the lower rockbands, if you slip and fall, you could easily die. On this upper
rockband, if you slip and fall, you'll just slide down scree slopes. Of course, if you fall off
the other side, you won't be so lucky. On the north side, it's a long way down to Memorial Lakes,
but at least you won't have to worry about that 11 km approach trail.
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26 Jul 98 - As you go up the first set of rockbands, you can look over
your shoulder to see the upper portion of the falls. This will be better seen from summit.
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26 Jul 98 - I've seen a lot of animals in my hiking, but I've never seen
one so close to the summit. Here we see a white mountain goat (which are usually found
closer to Lake Louise and Yoho) striving for the summit of one of the minor peaks of Mt. Bogart.
I have seen numerous Mountain Sheep, but this is my first Mountain Goat. Pretty cool.
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