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发表于 2009-12-30 09:05:01
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some info from Bivouac:
Mount Steele (Height: 1659 m )
Regions: BC Coast / Coast-Chilcotin / Elaho-Jervis / Tetrahedron
Located on the Tetrahedron plateau. The summit plateau has 2 peaks, and according to BC Basemap, the highest is the SW peak. Mount Steele is located just west of Tetrahedron Peak. It is a rocky peak, and an easy hike from the Mount Steele Cabin. It is the highest point on the ridge dividing Gray and Chapman Creek.
Mount Steele has two peaks. The contour lines on the 1:50,000 map 92G12 Edition 3 (and earlier) is very confused. It does not match BC Basemap. BC Basemap shows the SW summit 1659m as the highest and a lower summit of 1647, to the NE. The SW lat-long is close to the highest point on the 1:50K, but the NE peak plots as being way off, and partway down the eastern slopes.
Access / Route
From Mount Steele Cabin hiking/scramble. From the Mount Steele cabin, the peak is obvious. Most people probably go straight up it, scrambling up the rock slopes. However it can also be approached by walking up the ridge to the east of the cabin, and then wrapping around to the east ridge of the peak itself. Mount Steele Revisited by Klaus Haring
January 27, 2007 (2 days) Calculated Length: 7 km
Participants: Betsy Waddington, Robin & Wolf Tivy, Klaus Haring Moderately difficult tree skiing
Equipment: Various Ski mountaineering and Telemark gear
Abstract: A ski trip to Mount Steele on Sechelt Peninsula
Trip Report: It was supposed to be a leisurely trip, so we took the 2nd ferry to Langdale. It became more challenging when the road turned into a skating rink near the bridge across Grey Creek and we lost traction on the first steeper bit. Luckily Robin had chains in the car and after the lengthy process of mounting them we soon passed two cars being parked and one in the ditch, but reached the parking area without a problem. The first km of the trail was in cool shade, but as soon as we came into the sun we stripped to shirts and stopped for lunch.
I had not been in the area for quite a few years, so as usual, everything seemed further than I remembered, but eventually we reached the Steele Hut just before sunset. The door was drifted over to 3/4 of its height, but the snow was soft and fairly easy to clear. Two plastic sleds lying on both sides of the door made shoveling easier, throw the snow onto the sleds and it would slide away, making it unnecessary to throw ever shovel load further or higher than before.
The hut was cosy and I was almost too warm in my down barrel bag rated for two seasons. In the morning the thermometer on my watch still showed +6C. Outside, however, the snow had remained frozen rock hard. That made climbing on skins unpleasant as soon as the slopes got a bit too steep to go straight up and I carried my skis in a few places. Once, when I stopped to take a picture in a fairly flat spot I dropped one of my mitts and it slid away slowly. I thought it would stop, but it gathered speed. Robin tried to catch it on skis, but failed to reach it before the slope steepened. It slid almost to the level of the hut. Luckily it was mild enough that I did not really need it.
We climbed the final ridge on foot and enjoyed unlimited, clear views with only a distant sea of fog above Georgia Straight. We were a bit disappointed that we could not identify many peaks to the NW or on the snowy spine of Vancouver Island.
Skiing to the hut was on boilerplate, but further down it had changed to corn in the sun. We had approached the hut via the gully due south instead of the loop more to the west, this was quite an easy more direct route. The forest in our gully and below was fairly open and more pleasant skiing than expected in these conditions. (See raingrooves) Only on the road did the snow became breakable crust and very tricky. The icy road undoubtedly delayed us enough so that we missed the 4:20 ferry and instead of sailing into the sunset, we watched darkness fall in frigid Langdale.
Summit Ridge of Mount Steele from North
Tetrahedron Peak from Mount Steele |
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