Wild Horse Mountain

April 20, 2025

884m

Summerland, BC

Wild Horse Mtn. is one of the P100m hills on the west side of Okanagan Lake about halfway between Kelowna and Penticton. This one is officially named, and the summit supposedly offers some nice views according to the few trip reports on peakbagger.com. I was looking for something short and straightforward that I hadn’t done in the Okanagan Valley and I instantly decided on this one. But prior to tagging this main objective Xinran and I went for Mt. Drought in the vicinity of West Kelowna as that one’s even shorter, so why not. We did not leave home until quite late in the morning so by the time we parked on the SW side of Wild Horse Mountain it was already in the mid afternoon.

Wild Horse Mountain via the SW slopes. GPX DL

We decided to simply follow the routes published on peakbagger.com and it does not have to be followed exactly. The lower part involved plodding on some logging roads but the upper route was basically entirely on open country with some game trails. The bushwhacking was non-existing and we could have gone anywhere we wanted. The uppermost 50 m was quite steep and I did not bother to search for an “easier” route as my girlfriend needed to gain more experience on choss. The summit, as expected, offered nice views but I unfortunately had left the camera in the vehicle, so we had to reluctantly settled on the iPhone photography again.

Looking north up the Okanagan Lake from the summit

Another view from the summit. This was Xinran’s photo

This is “Cartwright Mtn.” or some other hill to the south

After spending more than half an hour on the summit soaking in the views we eventually decided to head home, and I basically led us retracing the same route that we took on the way up. While driving north up the Okanagan Valley we stopped in Peachland for some lakeside views, and then drove all the way back to the Fraser Valley in a single shot. The dinner was salvaged in an A&W. We didn’t want to get back home too late as Xinran still had work to catch up, so we didn’t bother with the 3rd objective that I had originally planned.