North, Livingston Range	Iceberg Peak	Cannon, and Heaven	Livingston Range

 

This was a truly radical hike.  I did this hike the first week GTTS was open.  The highline trail was closed because of dangerous snow conditions and that truly added to the experience.  I saw two people hiking the same trail as I was on the whole time, and I saw them when I was descending the Unnamed Peak.  My ambitions for the day were to reach the summit of Ahern Peak.  I was about 1 mile short of Ahern Pass, but there the snow conditions were truly dangerous.  I didn't have an Ice Axe and didn't want to risk anything.  It had about the same slope as all the snow fields I walked on earlier.  Except the snow field was much shorter, about 20 feet than a steep drop off a cliff.  I turned around and decided to climb a mountain I thought was Iceberg Peak.  When I got back and examined the UTM number, it didn't match on the map with Iceberg Peak.  I found it was a low 8,000 foot peak, just north of Swiftcurrent Lookout.  It was a great hike which afforded great views, and a nice introduction into the alpine areas of Glacier.