{"id":371,"date":"2009-10-25T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/?p=371"},"modified":"2020-03-24T21:36:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T04:36:20","slug":"pigeon-mountain-hike-oct-2409","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/pigeon-mountain-hike-oct-2409\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigeon Mountain Hike Oct 24\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pigeon ridge and summit from south peak.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

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The shortening days and a week of cloudy overcast\u00a0weather made me crave some outdoor mountain time. Getting up to\u00a0go to work in the dark\u00a0doesn’t feel\u00a0good\u00a0and\u00a0even morning workouts and playing hockey 3 times a week does not fulfil the need to exercise outdoors.\u00a0\u00a0 I managed to crank off a couple hours of skiing at Canada Olympic Park on artificial snow last weekend but still needed more.\u00a0\u00a0 Not enough snow to ski tour so decided to hike Pigeon Mtn.\u00a0 Trip was about 12.5 km and about 1050m including\u00a0 60 m for the\u00a0lower SE summit<\/strong>.\u00a0 Calgary was raining and just starting a wet snow storm as we left but the mountains were fine and we even got some much needed sunshine.\u00a0 Summit was cold and windy with some snow pellets but we avoided the\u00a0big squalls that seemed to hitting the higher peaks.\u00a0 We went down by bushwacking to the old ski runs but I would not do that without a GPS and it would have been better with more snow – especially for the boulder fields. As an alternative – there\u00a0was a shortcut down trail\/route that comes off the up trail about .\u00a04 km after it come out of the trees – on the left\/south of a bluff of trees in a gully.\u00a0\u00a0It would be steeper than the up trail\u00a0but\u00a0we saw a cairn and trail that came out about 2\/3 of the way up\u00a0the powerline.<\/p>\n

Note that this mountain has closures from Dec 1? to June 15? for wintering and calving sheep herd.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Overall good late season trip to do with hiker friends.\u00a0 Weather not an issue although miss some of the views.\u00a0 I kicked or rolled a bunch of rocks off the trail on the way up in case I ever want to ski up to Skogan pass although I don’t know what is covered by the closures.<\/p>\n

Pictures are here<\/p>\n

Pigeon Mountain<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 The shortening days and a week of cloudy overcast\u00a0weather made me crave some outdoor mountain time. Getting up to\u00a0go to work in the dark\u00a0doesn’t feel\u00a0good\u00a0and\u00a0even morning workouts and playing hockey 3 times a week does not fulfil the need … 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":[27],"tags":[45,16,14,21,53,119,22,17],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hike","tag-alberta","tag-alpine","tag-backcountry","tag-canada","tag-dead-mans-flats","tag-hike","tag-kananaskis","tag-rockies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","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=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3053,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/3053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}