Went for a fun tour yesterday with some friends in the Maligne area.
An old trail known as the Lovatt Scout trail" leads into the Alpine
south of the Bald Hills area.
Start up the fire road, take the first left towards Moose Lake. About
1km or so a trail branches of right. which has been punched in.
Always take a right fork. An hour up you hit a small meadow, which is
crossed to the north. Eventually you end up in a nice valley where
the option exits to follow the ridge line up left or climb some south
facing slopes which come up directly underneath the south rocky peak
of the Bald Hills. (two small tarns marked on map.)
Easy terrain can be used to the top. From here just descent the
easy North ridge of Baldy Peak and traverse hard to hit the fire road.
The left ridge is a bit longer but scenic. Probably have to walk a
bit to get over the peak just to the south. (see pic)
Below treeline you don't really want to "shred" snow pack is about
50-70cm of weak facets. At treeline the pack was supportive enough to
break trail. In the alpine old wind slabs gave good support.
Peter Amann
Peter Amann
Mountain Guiding
Box 1495, Jasper AB, T0E 1E0
www.incentre.net/pamann
pamann@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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