Steven's Peak-bagging Journey

August 1, 2021

1950m

Vancouver Island, BC

Mt. Frink is a small satellite peak attached to the much-bigger Mt. Albert Edward and from the saddle between the two peaks this one can be done in a mere half-an-hour-plod. It’s entirely a walk-up and the route is even somewhat marked by cairns and paths. Most who ended up tagging this summit did it as a loop traverse and that’s exactly how Alex, Vlad and I planned. On the first day we made the long approach and ascended Jutland Mountain and on the second day we tagged Mt. Albert Edward in the early morning.

There’s not much worth noting about the ascent of Mt. Frink from Frink/Albert Edward saddle. We mostly stuck to the beaten path and the cairns but there are many ways to make it work. The true summit was not obvious as we ascended but in the end we ascended two of the highpoints that appeared to be roughly equal in height. We dropped the packs and tagged the west summit first and then carried the packs up and over the east summit. From there we picked up the trail/path again and descended into Frink/Castlecrag saddle. The “trail” in this section was much better than I thought and the route-finding was very easy thank to the cairns and flags. The trip then continued with an ascent of Castlecrag Mountain before the long and boring hike-out.