We parked 3 cars by the road. T.C. the organizer weighed everyone's pack. He demanded 20lb minimal. We started on a decommissioned road. The road is in bad shape, well on its way back to nature. A creek crossing or rather a big ditch crossing that's not too easy. At some point (~1.8 miles in), we need to scramble up to connect to decommissioned Red Mountain Rd, which is in such bad shape where we hit it, we just continued scrambled, up on the ridge.
Once we reached the top of the ridge, continuation doesn't look good.
We scrambled down south, ~200', all on steep-ish rocks, then traversed (right) west to below Red Mountain, before scrambling up, soon in snow.
Once reached its ridge, it is flatter.
A few trees on the summit. Light snow, windy.
T.C. produced 2 bottles of wine, a bottle of whisky! All glass bottles.
Didn't stay long, as it was chilly, too cloudy for a good view.
Heading down south straight, hitting the decommissioned Red Mountain Road after losing ~1200'.
Followed the road, ducking branches here and there.
The group overshot the road, had to return to scramble down to the lower unnamed decommissioned road.
There, we decided to cut straight down.
It was okay for awhile, but soon ran into thick willow or alder. It was pretty bad, slow progress.
Finally down to Copper Road.
Walked the road for a bit back to the car.
