"Went counterclockwise. On route to the grassy break along the ridge we ended up following a nice trail up to a bouldering crag where we scrambled up boulders to gain the ridge. It was fairly easy with a slight challenge as well as gaps between the boulders to avoid." — Randy • Oct 4, 2023

"This was one of my favorite winter hikes this particular year. Its definitely better to do this as a loop. Much more enjoyable. Especially the section of ridge leaving the summit going back down. Best to do loop clockwise." — Slogenstein • Mar 12, 2021

"it felt good to be back out in the mountains. actually took longer than anticipated. Very little snow, mostly dry, no real trail to speak of... there are hands-on scrambling opportunities. Ticks are out" — apfelstrudel • May 2, 2020

"An early season trip with Leigh-Anne and Alex. After a bit of back and forth we agreed to these peaks and route. It worked out pretty good. There was snow patches to cross. It was windy as well. Weather wise we had a bit of this and that with moderate temps, snow, and sun. No ticks. A good early season day out." — BertB • Apr 6, 2019

"Bert, Alex and I headed to the South Highwood. The guys wanted a double-header and I already had done Junction Hill but went along for the ride! Views were good, but it was windy. I wore my down jacket for 6 of the 6.5hrs we were out! That windy. The descent off Junction Hill was steep and sketchy like I remembered it from the first time except that there was more snow and it was isothermic and slippery. We detoured a bit and did some postholing, but got onto Stony Ridge eventually up a bit of a ramp further along the canyon/valley. Stony offered up some incredible views! The hike out we followed some grizz tracks along the trail." — leigh-annewebster • Apr 6, 2019

"My 100th unique summit in the Canadian Rockies. I don't think this was on the list before since I didn't enter it, but I guess it is now. Having repeated it yesterday, I was surprised when it said it was my first ascent." — leigh-annewebster • Apr 30, 2016

"Another gorgeous day atop the summit of Junction Hill Sunday. While most folks think of a hill as that thing in their back yard, this particular hill sits at an elevation of 7326' with elevation gain of over 2360'. Surprisingly, even though it is named a hill, the work involved to reach and descend from its summit was not that much different from the mountains (i.e. Lake View, Tallon, Robertson, Hillcrest) summited in the past three weeks. Attaining and walking the summit ridge, while not overly involved, meant a descent that was actually slightly more challenging and required extensive use of GPS to stay on track. Between hiking down a massive snow covered rock slide, to routing through deep forest to negotiating a series of ridge line hills, this little 11 km jaunt turned out to be as interesting as some of the previous scrambles this month. Highlights included bitterly cold winds at the summit, fantastic views with nothing but 360 degree peaks all around (and this time no prairies), my scrambling buddy losing one of his trusty snow shoes to a very disreputable pine tree (that picked it right off his pack) and an interesting low level traverse through forest back to our vehicle. ..." — Mountainman • Jan 27, 2013