"Fairmont Hill" (GR 848769) - North Slopes Ski

 

Fairmont Hill

Saturday February 8 set out on what I thought would be a short mission. Turned out to be 650 metres of gain over 8 km of steep bush and boulders, and a lot of unconsolidated snow. I had a late start at 3pm from the upper parking lot of the Fairmont Ski Resort. I was headed to the treed summit of the high point above the ski hill. This little summit is an outlier of the taller and long Fairmont Ridge, but this little peak is quite visible from the Fairmont Hot Springs village area.

Parked at blue dot.
Skied north, then south to summit (red dot).

View north from the summit of Fairmont Mountain.
Photo taken August 10, 2021.
Can see the little bump of "Fairmont Hill"
and the beautiful Fairmont Ridge and north summit of 
Fairmont Mountain.

View to Fairmont Hill from the slopes of ski resort base.
(Photo taken March 1, 2025)

A convenient road heads up Cold Spring Creek for a short distance, this trail sees some action. Once above the small dam, I was breaking trail into the upper reaches of the creek. 

Gate on start of road in Cold Springs Creek.

Foot and snow shoe traffic along road.
Tracks stopped at the dam.

Little dam on Cold Spring Creek.

Aimed for the low angle terrain just east of the little hill. Lots of cool cliffs and big boulders on the way up the slopes. Reached the treed summit after dark, about 6:30. The resort was hosting night skiing so some of the runs were all lighted up, was cool to look down on these runs. Enjoyed the moon and the lights of Fairmont and headed down in my up track. Much faster on the way out. About 2:30 back to the car. I was happy to bag this minor peak, but most people wouldn’t bother.