"Maverick: an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party. The above definition pretty much sums up my approach to any kind of mountain activity whether it be hiking, backpacking or scrambling. After heading to make a little Thunder (Peak) Saturday, ended up instead sumitting Poker Peak and Maverick Hill with snow flurries socking in the mountains by late morning, high winds (gusting up to 80+ km/hr) screaming through the trees, plowing through crotch deep snow, slogging my way along heavily corniced slopes across multiple false summits and finally reaching the true summit of Maverick after some prodding to carry on in spite of my suggestion we should bail out a couple of spots. A bit of carrot pushing near the last two summits kept me going. The first was my hiking buddy saying "We're only 400 metres from the summit now. Do you really want to turn back?" Where upon reaching what I thought was the true summit a miracle occurred as his GPS unit popped up the words Maverick Hill, 2.2 km (further). As good fortune would have it the last two were virtually snow free and having gotten my second, third, fourth and fifth wind I figured "What the heck? Ho..." — Mountainman • Feb 16, 2013