Mount Spencer

  • Mount Spencer
  • 1454 m
  • Prominence 1019 meter
  • Location: North 49.05878, West 124.64679, (GPS)
  • Hordaland, Norway
  • Difficulty: (YDS) class 2
  • Climbed August 12. 2022

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How to get there:
A forest road climbs high on this mountain. We parked a Subaru at locaation N49.04844, W124.65720, elevaation near 1120 meter. We had alreády passed several water bars that were borderline deep for this car. A proper 4WD may drive a bit higher.
See this summary of climbs in BC, August 2022.
Route description:
Follow the road as it makes several switch-backs before getting to a spot directly below the subsidiary summit at location N49.05131, W124.64942.
Ascend across a cut-block (are where logging has been done), in order to follow the ridge. There are some markers along this route. There are 2 options. One may follow the ridge all the way to a local summit, then descend steeply to the saddle between this peak and Mount Spencer, OR, one can do a traverse (well before the local summit) on the left side of the ridge. This traverse is flagged with some red markers.
When you reach the saddle between the two tops, continue mostly along the highest ridge (some bushwack), then a short scramble (easy) before you arrive on the summit.
A summit register is placed in a small hole below some rocks, near the summit.
Comments:
This would be our first ultra on Vancouver Island. The forest road had water bars, some quite deep for our Subaru. We decided to park just before a steepish left curve.
Ascending, we discovered the flagged traverse, but Adam did not like it (still a bit affected by Covid?). We therefore ascended the small peak, only to discover a pretty nasty descent to the saddle.
We were quite happy when reaching this summit, what had looked as quite an easy ascent had actually turned out quite cumbersome.

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