"Pika & Ptarmigan are perfectly positioned to see the amazing collection of lakes in the Skoki area. From the Fish creek trailhead, we biked 4km up the ski hill road and then hiked into Hidden Lake. A scree ascent followed by a long scree ledge traverse took us to the Richardson-Pika col. From there there was great scrambling on solid rock up to the summit. The descent to the col and traverse back around was reasonably quick, followed by a longer ascent up and over to the Ptarmigan summit - I think we were getting tired by this point! After summitting, the scree run down from Pika was delightfully quick." — geoffhardy • Sep 26, 2021

"Peak larch season when I did this one and I STILL had the entire mountain to myself lol. The weather was perfect too. A truly amazing outing. I did this as an overnight at the Hidden lake campground. I hiked into Hidden lake, stayed overnight and headed up to Ptarmigan peak the next morning. AWESOME day. Followed the slope to the scree bench which I used to carry onwards towards the summit. There is a small drop in elevation before the summit but you gain it faster than you'd expect. Summit views were amazing. Full of orange. One of my favorite summits to date. When I was coming down from the mountain I took a slope too close to Pika peak. This was a huge mistake as it ended up taking downward closer to Hidden lake. Me and my dog had to scramble some really terrible gnarly terrain to get down from there. Make sure you do not do this... When you are coming down from the peak you want Hidden lake to be far to your right as you are descending. Otherwise you'll run into so many unnecessary cliff bands that are hard to scramble downward from. After that we packed up camp at Hidden lake campground and hiked back to the car by sunset! Truly amazing outing." — Slogenstein • Sep 25, 2021

"Missed skiing this one a few years back and COVID kaiboshed again this year. Casual 9:30am start pushed our bikes up in the cool sunshine defying the rainy forecast. Basically scree free as we walked up snow from the bottom basically to the summit. Avoided large cornices. Notch near summit was a sight to behold. North cornice detaching from rock with massive crevasse like opening. South cornice had partly broken. Unclear exactly where the rock ridge was so I kicked steps lightly between the north face and south gully. Great snow. Quick jaunt to summit. Back at Wolverine Ridge trail by 4pm and refueled for a shot at Unity Peak (because for some reason its listed in the Peakery Kane North list although not part of 2nd edition ;}). Wet and snow up the valley. We decided to gain the ridge via Purple Peak and then realized had to downclimb the ridge a ways and then figure out how to get around the minor peak using steep snow slope to the south which triggered a point release. Then at the south col on Unity realized we would have to traverse another south snowy slope to get to the east ridge ascent. Couldn't get a clear view on whether the ascent route was doable with snow. 6:30pm and..." — alexjoseph • Jun 27, 2020

"Standard route is a brutal scree slog. From Pika-Richardson col, we traversed below Pika Peak and went up SW face. This route offered interesting and sustained "moderate" scrambling. A much better choice. This peak offers fantastic views from the top. Most Skoki Lakes are visible (Myosotis, Zygadenus, Baker, Ptarmigan, Redoubt and Hidden). This was the last summit of Richardson-Pika-Ptarmigan Traverse. For a GPS data, see Pika Peak." — Taras • Sep 29, 2017

"Skied from fish creek parking lot. Started very early, had a really nice freeze on the way up and by the time we descended the snow was starting to soften up into some nice corn snow - really fun descent on a nice extended fall line. Summit ridge was heavily corniced and put crampons on for the downclimb/ steep exposed slopes directly beneath the summit. GPX includes purple peak and lipalian. " — BobbyG • May 11, 2017

"3 am start. Ski approach, made it to the weakness in the cliff bands before bootpack with crampons to summit, Ditched skis before final couloir, summited and returned down the same way. Snow had softned up and made for one of my best ski runs of the winter. Continued to Purple and Lilipian mountain" — ken_hercules • May 11, 2017