Guinn Pass was a fantastic trip starting at the foot of Mt Kidd, a K-country landmark. The trail crosses Kananaskis river and hops back and forth across galatea creek. Before reaching Galatea lake the trail veers straight up to Guinn pass which is actually a southern extension of the Mt Kidd outlier. We were pleased to time ourselves at 1 hour/ thousand vertical feet.
Suz negotiates a short rock band
view of Mt Galatea as trail climbs up to the sub alpine zone
at around 6500 feet we attracted some curious mountain sheep who to a sheep wore an expression of "what are They doing here?"
Here we are at the saddle between Mt Kidd and the unnamed summit in the foreground. From this 
picture you can easily see the steep pitch we climbed to get up here and why we were so tired at the top!drinking in the view from around 8000 feet
had to splice three pics to get this 180 degree view. Overall this was our favorite hike of the year. The approach trail was very interesting with many fine vistas, waterfalls, outcroppings and varied forest. The ascent wall was a bit harder than required due to my zeal for fresh drinking water, I traversed across to a waterfall to drink and then sort of missed a traverse. We ended up scaling a pretty hairy section only to intersect the traverse higher up and continue on a more calming pitch. On the way down we had a pretty good chuckles seeing how much easier the traverse was.At the top one is treated to 360 panorama with the Opal range( my favorite) spread out like a turkey dinner. Our highest score for this trail:9 Hoagies out of 10
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