{"id":353,"date":"2009-09-27T18:51:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T01:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/?p=353"},"modified":"2020-03-24T21:39:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T04:39:51","slug":"brett-sept-2509","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/brett-sept-2509\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Sept 25\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Brett – about 1600 m and 22 km – 9 hour RT. About 6 hrs up and 3 hours down. Bike trail for 55 min – bike out – 13 minutes!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brett had never been on my radar but I took a picture from Isabelle a couple of weeks ago and Kevin wanted to do it so I started to do some research.\u00a0 Sonny and Dave Stephens had it in their top 5 or ten and Andrew and Bob said it was one of the most difficult – second to only Smuts!\u00a0 Now I was interested.<\/p>\n

The bike in was a 55 min \u00a0ride and push and we went by some cairns and hid the bikes at the largest cairn by lots of broken rock in an open area.\u00a0 We found no real trail and just thrashed up the blowdown and deadfall mess – on moss and broken rock – angle up to right to gain hanging valley at most open spot. Travelled up valley on broken rock and then up on right through larch trees\/ramps to the low point in ridge.<\/p>\n

Hiked ridge for a while until it turns to rock. Two downclimbs.\u00a0 First one we went down on left side as go down and I cleaned rock off the ledges. \u00a0 We stuck to the ridge crest as close as could to get full scramble value and usually better rock. \u00a0One section of broken knife edge was dicey.\u00a0 There were\u00a0usually options to go around difficulties (moderate scramble) on the climbers right \/west side but usually looked slabby and down sloping or broken so easier but not necessarily safer.\u00a0 \u00a0The second downclimb was a layer of the same poor quality friable fractured quartzite that we had on Isbelle.\u00a0 We were right on the ridge so we went part way down (5 m)and didn’t like the rock quality – steep, dirty, broken and loose with no good landing.\u00a0 Rather than backtrack and go down lower and around which looked\u00a0scrappy and loose,\u00a0we decided to bring out\u00a0the 30 m rope, slung some rocks and climbed along the crest which involved a 5m downclimb into a notch and then up a pillar.\u00a0 The climb back up out of the notch had a fun 5.4 move\u00a0on the pillar\u00a0but we felt much safer on better rock.\u00a0 Vern has a picture of the pillar as he downclimbed it on his way down the ridge.\u00a0 Rest was easy to summit – close to 6 hours with rope work.\u00a0 The ramblers apparently bypassed the second downclimb\u00a0by going 20 m down to the right earlier and around on ledges .\u00a0 I think it is\u00a0safest to\u00a0either do that or the technically harder ridge crest\u00a0than doing the full downclimb which looked very steep and scrappy.<\/p>\n

Good views – somewhat spoiled by smoke.\u00a0 I am always somewhat wary of alternate descents but this one was 10\/10.\u00a0 We went south to a col and then great scree. Down 3-400 m in 15 min. Then 15 min sidehill down and right to a col on south west side of peak.\u00a0 Then excellent sheep trail all the way back around to the low point in the ascent ridge.\u00a0 The peak could be ascended easily this way but the treadmill scree would be murder. Descended into valley and followed easiest open lines along valley bottom and then down through deadfall mess back to bikes.\u00a0 The 13 minute bike ride was a real rush.<\/p>\n

Overall a good stand alone trip with a good descent, good views.\u00a0 I was not that interested in doing Pilot and Brett on the same trip.\u00a0 The scrambling on the ridge was fun but I was not impressed with the rock quality in\u00a0several spots.\u00a0\u00a0Definitely a\u00a0difficult scramble based on taking the ridge crest or doing the second downclimb – could be a dangerous area if not careful, rushed or tired from doing Pilot.<\/p>\n

Pictures are here<\/p>\n

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