West Trophy Mountain, Trophy Mountain, East Trophy Mountain, South Trophy Mountain

October 01, 2025

West Trophy Mountain, Trophy Mountain, East Trophy Mountain, South Trophy Mountain

West Trophy Mountain - 2532M

132M Prominence

51.80434, -119.89374

October 1, 2025

Trophy Mountain - 2577M

1467M Prominence

59.79948, -119.87530

October 1, 2025

East Trophy Mountain - 2414M

144M Prominence

51.80125, -119.85759

October 1, 2025

South Trophy Mountain - 2402M

182M Prominence

51.78677, -119.87165

October 1, 2025

6H 40M C2C, 6H 30M Moving

1600M Ascent and descent

23.86 KM

I have recently moved to Clearwater to work for the winter. The main focus of these next months is definitely going to be work, as I have had an awesome and very free summer, but when I can I still want to try and get out and explore the area. Wells Grey park and the surrounding areas are part of the reason why I accepted this job, because the mountainous areas around here have quite good access. I have been more or less just working non stop since I arrived here about 2 weeks ago, but I really wanted to try and get out and climb a peak before the snow came. Earlier this week I saw a dusting of snow up on Trophy Mountain, which is visible from town, but it quickly melted away. With a sudden change in the grim forecast, I took a day off work on Wednesday to get out and climb something. Come Wednesday morning, the forecast had worsened a bit, but the majority of the day was still calling for no precipitation. I got up at 7 Am and was at the Trophy meadows trailhead and about to start hiking at 8:15. The access to the meadows is fantastic, and a 2 wheel drive car could even make it to the trailhead in my opinion. The hike started off with about an hour of very enjoyable hiking up well graded trails. At first the trail was in the forest, but soon it opened up into the meadows where there was vast areas of golden grass and clusters of trees. After an hour of hiking there were already views of Sheila lake. From the lake I could see that last night's rain was snow up above 2300M, and that I would be hiking in a dusting of snow for the majority of the day. I wasn't exactly stoked, but I kept going, hoping that it would not be too slippery and that I wouldn't have to scramble many snowy sections. I detoured around the East side above the lake, and took the trail until a series of tarns, where I split off and aimed towards the first peak of the day, Trophy West. I ascended an increasingly steep slope with a few scrambly bits at the end until I was on top of Trophy West's South West ridge, where I followed the mellow terrain up to the summit. The summit was fairly broad, and the views were non existent, as I was engulfed in a cloud. The morning had clouds coming and going constantly above the 2300M mark, so I only caught the occasional look at where I needed to go and what it would be like. Thankfully, as I started to descend towards the Trophy West and Trophy col, clouds cleared up and I got quite a striking view of the whole ridge I would be hiking up to the summit. It was covered in a dusting of snow, and some parts looked a little steep, but nothing that would feel unsafe. There were also magnificent views of the glacier on the North side of the Mountain. I descended down to the col, then started climbing my way up to the summit of the main peak, at about 2450M there was the crux of the climb, with some slightly steeper rock, it was slightly scrambly, but still felt safe. After that short segment, the terrain mellowed out and took me up to the summit of Trophy Mountain, It was yet again a bit of a whiteout, and this time the wind was pretty intense, so I just kept pushing on. I had already completed the two main goals that I wanted to do, but I quickly came up with a plan and a route to try and collect one or two more of the Trophies. I made my way to the top of the main summit's East ridge, and the clouds shifted for long enough for me to see that descending down to the col between Trophy, and then climbing East Trophy would be simple enough. Descending down to the col was much of the same terrain as the previous col, if not easier. I tried to stay on the North side of the West ridge on the ascent of the third peak, that way the ridge could shelter me a bit from the wild winds that were blowing. As I started climbing the East Trophy, the weather was getting better and the clouds were passing. I could see back at the first two summits of the day. The top of East trophy is quite un exiting, as it is basically a 250 meter wide plateau. I quickly went and stood on the summit, which is at the furthest corner of the plateau from where I ascended, the North East corner. I then descended back down to the Trophy and East trophy col. Instead of climbing back up Trophy and returning home, I decided to go to the Trophy and South Trophy col, even if I didn't feel like climbing the South peak, I would return home via CwemCwem lake and the smaller lake in the basin to the West. I traversed from col to col, staying at 2250M. This section was quite bouldery and loose in some spots, but very easy to navigate. This area is very easy to navigate in general, and I was pleased to use my GPS minimally throughout the day and explore in a more authentic way. Once at the Trophy and South Trophy col, I took my first and only short break of the day. It was cold, I had been hiking in a puffer all morning. I also wanted to get back before forecasted rain, but I needed to eat and drink something. I looked up at South Trophy, and knew I had to climb it, it is a pretty striking ridge, and it looked like a fun scramble. My knee was hurting a bit, but what would an extra 180 meters of ascent and descent hurt. The bouldery ridge got steeper as it went, but only the top made me use my hands to navigate the loose blocks. It was an easier scramble than I was expecting, so I tagged the summit, which had a good view of the North side of Raft Mountain, and descended back down to the col. At the col, I made my way down to CwemCwem lake, then I started descending along CwemCwem's outflow along a river that led to a small lake. The valley was getting more and more vegetated the lower I went, but just before the lake I crossed the stream and made my way up into a big meadowy bowl. I climbed my way out of the marshy bowl, and made my way back to the trail, approximately where I had left the trail this morning to start my way up the first summit. I followed the trail back down through the meadows, through the forest, and back to my truck. When I made it back it had just started raining, I aced the forecast timing for the day.