By Geoff Hardy
Posted on 8/6/2018 8:48 PM
Mosquito Mountain was unusual in that the descent route was more interesting than the ascent. The route up a a reasonably straightforward easy scramble, with fantastic scenery of course. On the way down, I took Nugara’s suggestion to descend the south ridge to a turquoise lake. This ridge had the only real scrambling on the whole route and the lake was one of the coolest alpine lakes I have seen.
From the summit:
The descent ridge:
I can’t get enough of this lake:
The route went clockwise:
