Hell's Ridge

"Excellent and very enjoyable ridge traverse. Went north to south and then biked back to the start. Etherington Creek was much fuller than expected, but I found a fallen tree near the crossing and made it across completely dry. There was some bushwhacking to gain the ridge crest, but once on top, a faint trail continued along most of the ridge. The southern section was a bit bushy with some deadfall, though still very enjoyable overall. Finished the descent almost exactly where I had stashed the bike. Nothing hellish was identified." — MikaM • May 24, 2026

"It was crap weather. It was raining on the drive in. It wasn't too bad when we got started. It was windy, and the snow was saturated with water. We got up the ridge, choosing a bit carefully, as the avalanche risk was high for the day, and the snow was not great. Fortunately the slopes were fairly clean closer to the ridge. We were not going to get any great views and the wind was blowing, and we were ot going to get to any particular high point, so we walked along the ridhge a few hundred meters and called it good." — BertB • Feb 1, 2020

"Bert and I braved Hell's Highway 940 and Hell's weather to do the highpoint on the north end of Hell's Ridge. Weather sucked, snow was deep in some spots, hard crust along the ridge, saturated most places... definitely a day to watch for slides and sluffs. It rained, it snowed, it sleeted. It was a Gore-tex day. We just ascended to the high point and then came down rather than traversing the ridge. " — leigh-annewebster • Feb 1, 2020

"Traversed 85% of the entire ridge starting from the far north slope to within approximately 1.5km of the south end and then reversed back to the start point. Long day entailing almost 22 km travel in total and 917m of total combined elevation gain/loss (440m if one measures direct without all the ups and downs along the ridgeline). Last 15% started to get gnarly with tons of downed trees on the ridge and after hiking that far it began to feel a bit repetitive with little change in the views. The actual high point of this ridge appears to be on the south end rather than the more commonly ascended north end. Took multiple readings of the various bumps and the highest bump I registered was 2066m." — Mountainman • Apr 30, 2016