Hiking La Cloche Silhouette
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After a steep ascent up the pink granite hills surrounding George Lake, the trail became a gentle path through some hemlock groves and marshy lowlands. After an easy couple of hours, the trail began a sharp incline toward the South Ridge of the Killarney Range.
The striking white quartzite underfoot became increasingly jagged as we approached The Crack — a massive split in the rock that afforded a barely passable staircase up to the top of the ridge. Even in the dreary grey of the damp morning, the first glimpses of the surrounding autumn vistas were well worth climbing on all fours with a thirty pound backpack for half an hour.
We then began to follow the South Ridge east north-east over very technical and rocky terrain, made all the more difficult by the occasional mist that kept the trail damp. The next lookout provided us a view nearly directly to the west, where we could see OSA Lake nestled in between the South Ridge and the Blue Ridge to the north.