Some pictures from the expedition in September. Spent a week summitting Garnet pk, the highest peak in Wells Gray Park with the gf. Very seldom climbed due to its remoteness. We started the trip by canoeing 27k over 2 days. We woke up on day 3 and found smoke had rolled in so thickly from wildfires that we could barely see the other side of the lake 1km away, we spent a full day rucking our packs straight up a ridgeline and crosscountry down the otherside to setup our base camp in the subalpine. Next day we got up and summited Garnet peak shown in this pic. We were lucky and the smoke had descended to valley level, leaving the alpine clear. There used to be a permanent snowfield that would let you go straight up the face without much difficult scrambling, but that's long been melted out, so we tried a different route through the scramble climbing a *very* loose gully. It worked and got us to the summit, but was pretty shitty and hazardous with rockfall. Other than the few scrambley moves, the day was just a long day of crosscountry travel through talus fields, moraines and loose rock. The next day, we returned to the lake, detouring to climb a ridgeline and bag another 2 peaks on the way back. Straightforward fun scrambling, and we were lucky to have only a little bit of rain on the 2 days canoeing back to the car. Very succesful trip that basically went off exactly to plan, can't ask for much more.

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Check out the huge avalanche track in that picture. You can see there's a giant laneway with not a single mature tree going all the way from the toe of the glaciar down to that little lake. In the winter winds would strip snow off of the southeasterly faces of the peak that picture is taken from and deposit them onto the northeasterly face in the picture. This would create massive cornices, windslabs and a very deep snowpack, which later in the season around March(ish) can create conditions for massive size 4 avalanches like the ones that creates those paths