Hike to Mount Bancroft and Parry Peak

June 09, 2014

It was my second hike with the JBS Alpine Club. We hiked to Mount Bancroft and Parry Peak.
Yet again a wonderful hike with some wonderful people. The fun gets doubled if you you have good company. Thanks for Tom and John for planning such an awesome hike.

Here are some photos that I took while maintaining my pace with others:

The start of the hike was a bit cold and very soon we were about to encounter a very steep "snow wall"

A quick group photo before we started the harder part of the hike. I am extremely sorry that some people could not fit in the frame.

Tom looking back at the lake

Enjoying the perfect weather and steep climb

First panorama after coming out of the tree line

Alpine tundra has many amazing plants

A succulent looking plant

Crustose Lichen.

The Great Tiger woolly bear moth caterpillar.

Flowers

These flowers were very small. That is my finger for size reference.

These purple flowers became abundant when we were very near the summit of Mount Bancroft (above 13000 feet).

Another beautiful plant which looks like a succulent (or maybe they are succulents?)

Plants at Alpine tundra may take tens of years to grow just an inch. So next time you are hiking, try to avoid such beautiful plants :)

This moss/plant patch was just a few inches big.

We were halfway through..

And it looked like Utricularia graminifolia to me. Haha..

One more succulent looking plant with flower

The flower collection was incomplete without these blue flowers

A panorama I made when we were about to reach the Mt Bancroft. That's Ben in the left.

I hate these false peaks.

a 360 panorama from near Mt Bancroft

Ben kept showing me plants and flowers that I was missing.

Maybe its the views that motivates me to climb these mountains. If not these, there's no way that I would go out on a cozy Saturday morning to hike mountains.

John and Mariana discussing about the hike

Yup! That's the summit of Mt Bancroft.

Parry Peak from the summit of Mt Bancroft.

Gaana enjoying the views from the summit of Parry Peak.

How could I forget my CLYW Arctic Circle 2 when I was at the summit! Maybe I am the first one to yoyo at 13500 feet?

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