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Jun 2018
Needle Peak
Jun 17, 2018
We hiked up to Flatiron on Saturday and set up camp near the small lake and explored the summit of Flatiron for the afternoon. The highlight of the ascent was meeting a 5 year old (or so) girl with her parents who allowed us to pass while the daughter proudly proclaimed "I am going camping" it was adorable. The bugs were mostly held back by the wind which was gusty in the typical Coquihalla fashion with some threatening clouds to the south and I even saw some lightning on the horizon but nothing came close to us. The night was a little windy but clear and gave a great view of the stars and before the sun rise the mosquitoes were out but as soon as the sun appeared above Needle peak they seemed to retreat fairly quickly. We woke up kinda early and packed up and pushed for Needle peak, I usually just take the rock face right up the ridge the whole way up but a majority of the other hikers on the trail seem to prefer the loose gully. I have never seen the gully as the descriptions people use for it do not seem inviting in the slightest. I find the easiest option is to stick the rock on the ridge there is a little ledge you can shimmy across while hugging the rock that may be more difficult but the consequences are a lot less severe if you make a mistake but by all accounts the hardest part of the summit is getting over the first rock face on the start of the southern ridge of Needle either by the gully or the little ledge.
As of right now the snow starts just after the first two view points on the lower ridge and stays pretty much constant until right below the first rock face on the bottom of the south ridge. The mountain was very busy on Saturday and on Sunday we remarked how little people were up there even though Sunday was the better weather window until we started to make our way down and passed the lines of people who were getting a casual late morning start on the trail.
On a side note there are signs every where on the way up telling people not to have fires but there was evidence of them in a lot of locations along the trail and I made it my mission to destroy as many of the fire rings as I could find to hopefully stop the next person from using them but I doubt it will make a difference as some of the idiots up there has piles of fire wood ready to go for the next group and were just encouraging more of that stupid behavior /rant over. Reads:60 Comments:1 Likes:2
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