Goga pointing out the way. We had to park a bit further away due to no car-pooling and everyone driving their own car to the trail head.

Spring leaves in the upper branches of the trees lead us in.

magnificent tree at the gateway to the loop we were attempting.

Some spring flowers along the trail

Photo time at the interesting trees.. there would be lots of interesting trees today

Jamie on the lookout.

Jamie and Teddy wait for us to catch up

Natasha at the apex.

On the lower slopes, we turned right to ascend along the ridge line.

The trees were astounding.

current destination is towards the hilltop above Natasha's head.

up and up.

Dragan climbing the hill

Slope was steep but easily climbed

our progress so far, still lots to go.

Oh, a view of Mt Head popped up on the horizon.

the ridge we were following filled in with trees, we picked routes to avoid snow on the ground. Jamie can't stop looking at Holy Cross and Mt Head wishing he was skiing instead of hiking the foothills.

The ridge had some hands on bits.. Ruth navigates some blocky stones.

scrambly bits in the trees.

Goga and Natasha take the lower trail to circumvent the ridge.

Looking back along the ridge we ascended, hiking over the two bumps in the background.

Nearing the top of the ridge now.