Lipsett > Mist > Mist Outlier > Eagle Ridge

A beautiful day to be climbing around on mountains in the Highwood area. We choose this route for the multiple peaks and hopes that we could find some good scrambling in lieu of scree bashing our way up Mist Mountain. Mission accomplished!

Approached from the south trailhead, parked at the Mist Mountain trailhead (500m east). We attempted a “shortcut” with a direct route through the trees to meet the main trail at treeline. Saved distance, but not sure about time and energy. From there we stayed in the main trail to Mt. Lipsett. After a quick summit FaceTime with the kids, we headed to the Mist-Lipsett col to check out the ridge. We really enjoyed this part. The scrambling was on decent rock and very sustained for about 450m of elevation. Sure we could have bashed our way up a few loose gulleys, but there were many options to scramble a line to bypass. The summit of Mist had a great view of the adjacent ranges. The ridge to Mist’s SE outlier was straightforward. Descending to the valley was on loose terrain, but that made things go pretty quick when we found the occasional scree ski line. We planned to take a dip in the hot springs, but there was about 20 people with more on the way. As the pool has room for 4, we kept on hiking, and decided to go up Eagle Ridge instead. Peaks over people. We took the main trail back to the vehicle and enjoyed a few cold drinks in the sun.