Skoki Part II, Eastside Traverse: Redoubt Mountain - Heather Ridge - Brachiopod Mountain - Anthozoan Mountain - Unity Peak
Solo.

on foot: 24.1km with 2,531m gain in 10:20hrs
Total: 31.6km w 2,831m gain in 11:15hrs


Redoubt Mountain: 2,905m, 9:30am / 25mins
to tell the truth, I was thinking about doing Redoubt last week, after Ptarmigan. Coming up via Kane's route and down - Spirko's. I'm glad I didn't do that. While Spirko's line is very direct, slopes are stable and no issues there, the other one is loose as hell and have unnecessary elevation loss/gain.
Someone wrote in a register "came up via Kane's aestetic route". Completely disagree, nothing aestetic in it. Except of very short ridge walk, the rest is just loose sh… It took me an hour to loose 400m of elevation. That's slow!
It's 900m gain to the summit from Temple Lodge; took me 2 hours, i.e. roughly 450m per hour. Which means my ascent was faster than descent. That's definitely not right.


Heather Ridge: 2,691m, 12pm / 20mins
Surprisingly a long and very wide one with some misleading cairns. Had to destroy one.


Brachiopod Mountain: 2,706m, 1:10pm / 10mins
Just a straight up from a pass between Heather Ridge and this one. Dry slab is definitely fun and very easy there.


Anthozoan North (False) Peak: 2,751m, 2:05pm / 5mins
Anthozoan Mountain: 2,758m, 2:30pm / 30mins
For whatever reason, the false summit has a HUGE cairn, I'd say about 2m high, maybe it was believed to be the true one.


Unity Peak: 2,702m, 5pm / 5mins
My options for exit were either back to Boulder's pass and take the trail (flatter but longer one) or via Unity Peak (shorter but with "hills"). Decided to stick with the latter. What I didn't expect though, that it's still pretty far and quite a bit of elevation gain, between Anthozoan and Unity I did additional 6km with about 400-500m gain.


Purple Peak and Lipalian Mountain (Pumpkin Traverse)
I was seriously thinking about to continue onto them, it would add just another 1-2 hours. But then the weather started to deteriorate, very thick smoke was coming in (actually it was OK for the whole day till about 5pm, by then time I got the car, it cleared up again). In addition, I summited them before, so was fine to skip them.
In the end, it was a good decision to choose the shortest way, by the time I got to the descent col, the wind increased to about 50-60km/hr.


Line colors on photos:
red - on foot
blue - on bike