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Phil at the giant summit cairn on Cross Ridge.Our first good glimpses of Cross Lake with White Man Mountain rising beyond.Pass Lake with White Man Pass and Mountain in the background.Phil scrambles along the summit ridge of Cross Ridge with Mount Currie rising to the left.Hours and hours of forest hiking is good for the soul.A size "10" grizzly track in the snow.Hours and hours of forest hiking is good for the soul.[I can think of worse places to spend a few nights!More evidence of the history of this area is found at an old horse camp along the trail.Wonderful Rockies scenery as we descend the west face, looking towards White Man Mountain and Talon Peak / Soderholm.Back in the low scrub exiting towards the Spray River. At least it's all dried out now.Descending the west face of Currie with Cross Ridge obvious in front of Red Man Mountain. Mount Byng at distant right.Looking back at Mount Currie.Cross Lake with Vavasour (L) and White Man rising above.Like many Rockies passes, White Man Pass is more of a boggy meadow than a "pass". But this is a lovely wild place nonetheless.The entire White Man Pass area from the base of Mount Currie at left to the Cross River Valley into BC at right.It doesn't get much better than this! Descending to Cross Lake.Summit views looking east towards Mount Currie (L) with Warre, Vavasour and White Man Mountain to the right.Looking west (L) to Red Man Mountain with Aurora and the twin summits of Byng to the right.Glissading into the valley leading to Cross Lake.
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