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Marmot Mountain

 Marmot Mountain - 1815M

655M Prominence

50.026079 -124.181193

July 1, 2024

7H 11M C2C, 6H 40M moving

Marmot is a great shorter day trip for summer hiking. It was nice to take off at a reasonable time in the morning and still bag a pretty neat back country peak. Tyler, my mom and I started by hiking up the neglected logging road for 2 and a half KM. Eventually you dive into the bush and work your way across a small but steady flowing diverged river. We managed to cross keeping our feet relatively dry with the use of some careful stepping. After the River there is a wall of bush that you are forced to plow through, but the bushwhacking gets better as you go, and doesn't trouble you once you get on the steeper treed slopes. After about a third of the treed section of the climb, there is a small rock face in the way. It is pretty easy to get around with a little common sense and route finding, as long as you stick close to the wall, keeping it on your left, and you don't go too high up. After this wall there is a small landslide, and from here on out it is pretty simple. Once we started to get out of the trees and onto the ridge, some snow appeared. For the most part we followed the snow up all the way to the summit, as it made a clear and level path. The ridge picked up in steepness a little once we made it through the notched out rock. The final push to the summit was slightly sketchy without any sort of snow/ice gear whatsoever. We weren't expecting this much snow to still be up here in early July. My mom opted out of the summit push, and Tyler and I made our way up, digging our feet in as best as possible into the firm snow, trying to make some decent foot holds. The way down was much of the same, and once we made it back down to my mom, we hid behind a few small trees and had a lunch break. The descent was via the same route, with very few short breaks due to the horrendous bugs. Before we knew it we were back at the truck and heading home.

Tyler looking back at Tom's thumb













Tyler walking the ridge to the summit (center)













Tyler and I on a cool Rock formation













Relaxing after Making it up to the summit 












The ridge walked, Tom's thumb, and Goat mountain across the valley
















Route (red) Tom's thumb is incorrectly labeled





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