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Hiking Taylor Peak

After nearly 2 years of talking about spending a day in the hills, the stars aligned and Scott and Bob joined me on a hike in the mountains. Leaving from the Joffre Lakes Trailhead, Tszil Mountain was the day's objective. We started the hike at 8:40am. It took us 2 quick hours of uphill hiking to reach the upper lake. From there, we took a right and headed towards the col between Taylor and Tszil Mountains. Scott pulverized some rock into rock flour, and Bob found his inner peace. As for me, I was an excellent meal for the bloodthirsty mosquito's. After nearly 8 hours of grinding uphill, we made the col and decided to go after Taylor Peak. We didn't quite make the summit, but we did find a nice subsummit that we affectionately named. Another 4 hours back down to the car, followed up by a stop at McDonalds in Pemberton (best food I've ever sunk my teeth into), and a gatorade stop at the gas station. All in all, another excellent day in the hills.

Final stats for the day:
Round Trip - 18 km
Elevation Gain - 1200 meters
High Point - 2300 meters
Start Time - 8:40am
Reached subsummit of Taylor Peak - 3 pm
Back at Car - 7:40pm
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    Looking down from the Taylor Peak subsummit at Upper Joffre Lake, and what we called Upper Upper Joffre (the dark blue lake in the lower left).
    Looking over at Tszil Mountain (rounded mountain in the center) and Slalok Mountain (tallest peak on the far left) from Taylor Peak subsummit.
    Looking up at the mountain Bob and I hiked. The black arrow points to the spot where we actually stopped. The actual summit of Taylor is to the right of these craggy peaks. Our hiking led us to these sub-summits. There wasn't much of a trail, and we missed the actual summit (see next picture). While we didn't give up once reaching these cliffs, we did find a few steps that were too risky to attempt. At that point, we threw in the towel and sat down for a lunch happy with the day's accomplishments.