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From the first picnic table clearing the first highpoint of the day is visible - looking deceptively snow free.Snow on the road and nowhere else.Almost as high as Junction Hill now as we traverse grassy slopes to the summit.I shouldn't complain too much about a little bit of now. It was a gorgeous, windless day and I was enjoying it with Hanneke.Mount McPhail is easy and quick from a camp at the McPhail Creek headwall. I blasted up and down it in 3 hours and enjoyed the views from the summit immensely.This is the second ridge of the day that we have to get to somehow.Hann follows through the small gap on the ridge.Excellent views west (L) and north (R) over Cat Creek Ridge towards Horned, Abruzzi, Bishop, Hill of the Flowers, Loomis, Odlum,Storelk, Highwood Ridge, Mist and Eagle Ridge.Looking south off the first ridge / highpoint. Holy Cross and Gunnery at left.The trail is pretty obvious as it's part of an old road bed.This is looking awesome! A short scramble along the third ridge awaits with excellent views to the Continental Divide at left.Views from the third ridge looking past Junction Hill towards Mount MacLaren and Strachan.Views back to the south over our first ridge / highpoint (C) from the second ridge. Note the approach road running along Junction Hill at right.Great views from the open grassy slopes just west of the summit. Cat Creek Hills at left with the High Rock Range in the distance at Highwood Pass peaks at distant right.At the col between Junction Hill and the 2nd ridge we found scattered bones from what is probably a bighorn sheep.Looking over Mount Mann towards Mount Burke and Plateau Mountain.Hanneke surveys the landscape from the ridge crest looking west and back to Junction Hill.At the col between Junction Hill and the 2nd ridge we found scattered bones from what is probably a bighorn sheep.Finally we spot our summit and the fourth ridge - really a part of the third but still distinct.On ascent we took this steeper line up the third ridge. On return we managed to find a better route a bit further south than this.
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