The Howe Sound to Howe Sound More-Crest Trail (HSHSMCT) Preceded by two days in Squamish

For as long as I've known Bryan, he has used his teeth as toenail clippers in time of need ...

... which is probably every time he needs to clip his toenails.

The first pitch of Angels' Crest (13 pitches, 5.10b) is (or can be) literally climbing up a tree!

We don't have photos of most of the harder climbing but, although I have done this several times, it felt hard. Bryan led all the hard cracks, and my shoulder suffered from the untrained exertion.

Next, we started from Whyte Lake trailhead in Horsehoe Bay, hiked over Black mountain and down to the normal start of the HSCT, and then, thanks to a poor route map, proceeded to do a crest-enhanced (and therefore rather challenging) version of the Howe Sound Crest Trail in still-very-snowy conditions.

Here, black bear tracks (only hours old) follow and then leave left from human tracks (1.5 days old).