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A nice morning to be walking along the Icefields Parkway. Silverhorn Creek is about 300m distant in this view looking north towards Bison Peak and Murchison Towers.On a very faint trail through the dry forest along Silverhorn Creek. 'Dry' doesn't mean it was always open and easy though.Lovely creek landscapes along Silverhorn Creek. The one-and-only advantage of smoke is that it brings out the vibrance in closeup nature shots.The lower section of Silverhorn Creek, just before it meets the highway, is the most scenic with waterfalls, a small canyon and rapids.Lovely creek landscapes along Silverhorn Creek. The one-and-only advantage of smoke is that it brings out the vibrance in closeup nature shots.This is a nice open slope that we side-hilled on approach, we could have descended to the creek already here on hindsight.Apocalyptic sunrise.The first headwall is easily bypassed on the left. The sun is visible rising above our distant access gully that we'll turn up to the left.Looking back from the top of the first headwall towards Breaker Mountain.We enter the gravel flats above the first headwall and spot our first cairn.Avoiding wet feet was a bit of a hassle on approach. On egress we simply walked right in the creek which was much more efficient.Sunrise reflected in Silverhorn Creek. Our access gully under the sun here.The upper gravel flats.Looking back at Mount Weed (R) and the upper Silverhorn Creek valley from the lower slopes entering the access gully.Looking back at our approach valley with Mount Weed on the left and Noyes at distant right.In the access gully looking at the second headwall which we by-passed on climber's right.Fun and fast scrambling up the headwall.Looking back down the access gully towards Mount Weed - distant peaks now covered in smoke.Heading north up broken terrain up to the high terrain around the glacier. This is the lower slope of Porcupine Peak.
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