hike Missouri Mountain

John Branksy, Steve March and Lee Blackwell climbed Missouri Mountain on July 4th 2009

The climb up the valley was steep and beautiful. Missouri is more of a mountain than a peak as the picture shows the long ridge leading the the high point on the left.

The hike along the ridge has great views

John had been eyeing a possible glissade route on the ascent. We used the route and you can see our track in the picture. It was pretty steep and I had a chance to use my new ice axe to dig in to control the speed of descent.

Thanks to John and Steve for cooking up the idea of this climb for the 4th of July 2009