Mt MacDonald -- The Apparently Abandoned Trail
I just finished a 5.407km hike that lasted about 2hh:9mm:2ss !
Trying to make the most of our long weekend, me and my buddy took our dogs out for what we intended to be a bit of an "intermediate" difficulty hike. We dexided to go to Mt MacDonald -- outside of Victoria by about 20 minutes or so, into the mossy wilderness of Sooke. There are some trails on this mountain that I've frequented before, as it's a pretty popular climbing spot, but we decided to check out a trail along the frontside up to the summit.
We had to double back a few times because we lost the trail (which should have been a sign), but we ended ip finding the "trail" and quickly realising why it didn't seem to be pretty popular.
A few scrambles up a mossy gully with some pretty loose and slippery rocks (with 3 dogs, mind you). Steep steep steep the whole way up. A few traverses along a precipitous drop (where the dogs were picked up and passed between the twp pf us -- because sometimes you just don't leave it up to the dogs). A couple rope ladders here and there (rope in one hand, dog in other arm).
At the end of the day though, we made it with all humans and pups accounted for, and I dare say that I think we earned the cool view at the top!
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Wow, the view must be amazing from up there on the top. It looks very tall mountain. How long did you take to trek to the top?
Round trip was a little over 2hrs. Probably only took 25 minutes to descend. So probably about 1hr:50m to summit -- a fair amount of that was for route finding / trying to figure out where we were.
And yes -- the view was awesome!
That looks pretty awesome mate, and you have covered some crazy altitude there as well. Good work.
Thanks, dude! Definitely not the hugest hike, but we went off-trail a time or two and it got a bit spicey at times. Definitely fun though, and the view at the top was awesome.
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