| Follow Kootenay
River FSR
to the south-east facing drainage at
the end of De Smet's south ridge. At 880581 there is an old
road
indicated on the topo map, park here. Follow the old road to the main
drainage between Sabine and De Smet, 884587. Hike up lightly timbered
slopes climber's right of the drainage to the ridge which is then
followed to the
false summit. A short, easy traverse leads to the highest point, 890632. |
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Snowshoe trip: RT 8.5. Firm snow (once on
the ridge). Awesome gargoyles higher up on the ridge gave the "big
mountain" feeling. The last bit is not that steep and the traverse to
the higher point, (not the official summit) is short. You can
see the metal rod of the official summit (lower) on the east side, the
connecting ridge looks intimidating! I wish I had
pictures
of the gargoyles, traverse and summit but our footage got taped over...
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Mount De Smet. |
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We
ascended the ridge on the right of the picture and traversed to
the highest point. |
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Taking a break on
the ridge. |
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