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In the drainage, looking far up at Silverhorn Mountain at upper right.The waterfall in the drainage that is avoided on steep slopes to the north - on climber's left of the creek.In a theme for my day, the by-pass slope is steep but not nearly as much of a grind as it appears, thanks to Brandon's recent tracks in the dirt.The peak is at upper center here and Nugara's route goes up, or on climber's left of the obvious gully.The left hand gully was full of old snow that looked ready to collapse. I kept following the tracks above it on the left.Looking back down the main gully now that I've started the traverse above the left hand one.Looking up the lefthand gully.I stayed on climber's left until reaching the light brown colored scree bowl high above me here where the track took a 90 degree turn to my right and headed up towards the ridge.Near the light brown colored scree and taking the 90 degree turn to my right, up to the ridge crest at upper left here.My ascent gully at lower right. Views are opening up again with the false summit and ridge at upper left.The ridge crest, looking north towards Mount Weed with the Silverhorn Creek drainage at right and hwy 93 and my approach at lower left.Interesting terrain to the first false summit with some nice color sneaking into the frame.Interesting patterns on the ridge to the first false summit.The ridge to the false and true summits looks a bit intimidating from the first false summit.Thankfully the ridge to the 2nd false summit is less intense than it appears. There is some exposure in places.Shale ramp to the next false summit.Another small drop before the final slopes to the summit with Peyto Lake showing up nicely now.A Rick Collier register from 1992 with several dozen ascents since then. In 2017 the mountain got quite popular, likely thanks to Nugara's guidebook.Great views from Silverhorn looking south (L), west (C) and north (R) along the Icefields Parkway.Weed, Noyes, Corona Ridge, Marmota, Quill, Conical, Abstruse, Recondite, Augusta, Marmot, Willingdon and Observation along with many others of course.
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