{"id":1927,"date":"2017-06-05T18:43:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2017-06-15T21:58:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T04:58:19","slug":"opal-north-june-4-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/opal-north-june-4-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Opal North June 4, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Good chat comparing scrambles and routes<\/p><\/div>\n

A few ways up to the ridge on this one. We followed the lower powerline south into the scrubby trees in the ditch until hit some blue flagging and the followed a steep trail straight up to the second powerline. Note there is trail coming in from south here – probably from picnic area which might be an easier start. \u00a0We then followed orange flagging straight up to ridge which was a little steep and slabby at top near the ridge(some moderate and exposed moves – would not like if wet). \u00a0There were some trails leading off to climbers left which would have been less slabby and lower angled. Came out at a cairn and good dirt trail along ridge in trees. Good trail the rest of the way to top.<\/p>\n

On the way down we went by the cairn on the ridge top dirt trail and followed it until the trail faded and we hit a cairn and trail turned down. Followed a less slabby switch backed trail down and across some open areas but eventually the trail faded and we angled left to meet up with our original up trail.<\/p>\n

6.3 km 880m about 3 hours up with stops to chat – about 8 groups and most went up or down a different way!<\/p>\n

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A few ways up to the ridge on this one. We followed the lower powerline south into the scrubby trees in the ditch until hit some blue flagging and the followed a steep trail straight up to the second powerline. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45,16,14,21,22,29,37,17,40,118,31],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scramble","tag-alberta","tag-alpine","tag-backcountry","tag-canada","tag-kananaskis","tag-mountain","tag-ridge","tag-rockies","tag-route","tag-scramble","tag-snow"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1944,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}