8 members of the Penticton Outdoors Club did a circuit climbing first to South Gate, (at the extreme south end of Apex Mountain). 
We worked our way south, then up and along the 1 k crest of Razorback Ridge. Next we dropped down to the east, to climb the semi open slopes to the 2 peaks of Two Point Mountain.
A storm with pellet snow chased us all the way back down to our vehicles.

Four of us explored the highest ridges south of Apex Mountain in preparation for the Penticton Outdoors club hike Saturday August 28 to be led by Dick Kornelsen.
From the top of Two Point we could watch the smoke rising from the fire south west of Keremeos.

3 of us cleared the regular Sheep Rock Trail of many fallen trees today.
We gave advice to a Search & Rescue team setting out to rescue a hiker who had spent the night out, lost.
Alpine flowers were fading down lower, but in full bloom in the highest meadows, (7000 feet elevation).

The club had two road trips so far this summer. We had 8 of us based in the Radium area for three hikes, these are the pictures:

Here is the second road trip of the summer.   Four of us met in Kaslo and did 3 hikes:

Brent Mountain trail was in excellent condition. Heather was in bloom. A thunderstorm with pelting hail drove us off the alpine, as we started to descend.
Access road was in the poorest condition I have seen, with 21 new cross ditches, a berm to be skirted, and a bridge with a softening side section.

Jerry Monahan led a group up the steep face of Mount Hawthorne on Saturday. Great views and a good work out.

Today 4 of us marked and cleared a trail along the tops of the Browning Bluffs, the highest part of the skyline south east of Okanagan Falls.
Phacelia, Mountain Penstemon, and many others were out en masse. Saturday Guy Duvent will lead a POC hike over this new trail.

5 of us completed clearing an extended circuit of 6100 foot Allendale Ridge; making it fit for hiking or ski touring.

In the fog a group of us laid out and cleared a trail along a 4700 foot ridge with a series of several hundred foot high bumps; before it dropped off towards the Okanagan Valley.

This turned out to be the most rugged outing of the year: 2600 foot vertical, all the upper areas through burnt out forest with fallen trees like jackstraws, steep crumbling rocky slopes;
taking 7 1/2 hours. 2 later exploratory trips worked out a more "user friendly" route to the top.

Explored, cleared and marked a route in the hills south of the White Lake Observatory, first heading to the tops of three lava outcroppings on the south side of the main trail, and then crossing over to two higher lava ridges to the north.