With work ruining our plans of a more ambitious trip or trips for the long weekend, we settled on a minor peak in the front range. We had no trouble following the book's instructions except for finding the cutline. The cutline isn't noticeable from the logging road, but we found a faint trail that leads to it. In about two hours we arrived on the summit of Belmore Browne.

On the top, we met a couple relaxing. The Bickersons, who are retired, had recently moved from Kimberley B.C. Of interest to me was their reaction to the scrambles that they did there, following Scrambles in Southwest B.C. Guide, B.C.'s counterpart to Alberta's Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies . They were disappointed. Getting to a trailhead often involved a long, complicated drive on logging roads. A 4x4 vehicle is a must, they told me. On one occasion they spent the entire day trying without success to find the trailhead! Originally from Alberta, they returned to live in High River. They far prefer the mountains here than those in B.C.'s SW.

After chatting with the Bickersons we left Belmore Browne and followed the ridge east to a second peak, more of a bump really, then northeast to Boundary Peak (GR473401). The weather wasn't great but at least it didn't start to rain until we turned back. Even then it rained little, but other areas around us were hit by rain and thunderstorms.

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