Recently we went back to the lands south of Sandy McNabb, where we’ve been taking advantage of the frozen Sheep River. This time we had foothill 732089 in mind, a big sprawling mass that rises steeply above Coal Creek’s narrow valley and looks pretty good from Mount McNabb’s west summit. We knew the back side of it, the south [...]
Yesterday we headed down to the Sheep River area west of Turner Valley for a change of scenery. There is substantially less snow down there than around Bragg Creek and the Elbow. We parked in the Sandy McNabb skating rink parking area and walked down the trail to the Sheep River opposite Coal Creek. After crossing the well-frozen [...]
Missinglink mountain is a fabulous summit with extensive views of the Front Ranges all the way from the Highwood to the Elbow! Taking advantage of the fall weather we hiked up there on October 23rd to be greeted by an impressive, well-constructed inukshuk. A few days later we received an email from Joanne Godfrey of [...]
Description of a new trail in the Sheep River area built in the fall of 2010. It starts from the Sandy McNabb ski trails and joins Death Valley trail at the junction with Windy Point trail.
This 20 km hike is a great fall grand tour of the Gorge Creek area of the Sheep that gets you above treeline for quite a while. Yesterday we checked out the trail to the rocky knoll SE of Mount Ware, then traversed under Mount Ware to take some photos.
