From: Jia Condon
Date: Jul 29, 2008 6:29 PM
Subject: Mount Rexford, West Side, Chilliwack Valley
To: mcr@informalex.org, coastalex@informalex.org
Up the West Ridge of Mount Rexford [last] weekend. Chilliwack South FSR
has been recently excavated due to current logging and is in excellent
condition well past the Slesse trail head. This was just done on the
25th, so we were pleasantly surprised on the morning of the 26th. Even
saw a 2WD parked at the Slesse trail head.
Slesse pocket glacier looked in rough shape and not very user friendly.
Trail up west side is in great shape but the first 150m in the old
logging slash could use a little love!
Found running water (snow melt) just down from the ridge bivy, gotta
love free water in the hills! Snow was used to gain the West ridge (no
crampons or ice axe were used), otherwise the ridge was snow free. We
experienced everything from sun to hail on Sun the 27th.
play hard and safe
Jia Condon
ACMG/IFMGA Mountain Guide/Professional Recreationalist
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