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Pogo Mountain

 Pogo Mountain - 1486M

871M Prominence

49.26056, -125.40711

June 4, 2025

5H 35M C2C, 5H 20M Moving 

1300M Elevation gain

12KM

After camping out with the cougar at the trailhead for Pogo mountain the night before, we got a start at 6:52 AM and began by crossing the bridge over Kennedy river. After the bridge we kept going down a logging spur until the trailhead appeared on our right. The trail up to the alpine was in incredible condition and quite evidently sees a fair share of traffic. The lower half of the forested section has a few ropes to help you pull yourself up, but is almost exclusively class 2. The upper half of the forest turns to bog and is quite wet, but full of little streams and pools to fill up on water. Snow started to appear pretty heavily at around 850M, but the flagging is good and is easy to maintain route. It remains quite easy to find your way up, as the ridge opens itself up in front of you as you leave the trees behind. After slogging our way up some snow slopes we found our way to the crux of the day. In reality I made it a lot more of a crux than it needed to be,  I climbed up a 10 meter face on chossy rock that crumbled on every other hold. The real route was to the right of this though, and Tyler was smart to just go up the standard flagged route instead of attempting the scramble that was definitely verging on 4th class. From this point we followed the ridge up a false summit, on a mix of bushy rock and snow to the summit. After 3 H 50M from the car, we were on the summit. The summit offered good views but we only lingered around for a few minutes before making our way back down. I bypassed the scramble on the way back down as any sane person would, and then we descended the snowy slopes in record time by running down them. The descent only took 1H 45M from the summit, less than half the time it took us on the way up. Back at the car we got driving immediately, and managed to catch the early afternoon ferry back to Powell River.

Pogo from Marion main on the way back from Triple Peak



















The trailhead after the bridge




















We happily hiked above the clouds















The trail




















A few hands on moments on the trail




















Getting some water in the marsh




















The ridge we would follow up to Pogo















Looking at the Pogo ridge head on, and the short scramble
















Me scrambling the choss

Almost at the summit








































Summit




















Route





















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