Cathedral Rock, Peggy's Pond & Mount Daniel — Monday, Sep. 7, 2020

Following our unsuccessful attempt to summit Mount Saul earlier in the weekend, we tried for Mount Daniel on Labor Day. The Cathedral Pass Trail was pretty straightforward. The trail to Peggy's Pond is a bit more consequential and significantly less maintained, but still not an issue. From Peggy's Pond we followed the community trail up the eastern ridge of Mount Daniel, just on the north end of Circle Lake. Though this did require some minor scrambling, it was fairly straightforward due to the numerous cairns. When we got to the snowfield, we opted to continue with the ridge, as we did not have our Microspikes, nor our ice axes. In hind sight, we should have brought both and followed the snowfield. The ridge continued towards the first false summit of Mount Daniel. As things became more technical, we ditched our treking poles as they were mostly in the way. As we reached the false summit, we quickly realized we were either cliffed out, or had to continue in terrain that was too loose and consequential for our tired legs (from Airplane Lake earlier in the weekend). However, one could have continued down the social trail and reached the false summit seen from Peggy's or traversed further to the true summit. Opting instead to turn around, we will chalk this up to learning experience for our next attempt.