Festubert Mountain Route

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Features River/Creek · Views · Wildflowers · Wildlife

Festubert Mountain Route is a continuation of Akamina Pass Trail.

Descending gradually, Festubert Mountain Route follows Akamina Creek downstream through the 2017 Kenow Fire burn area. With the tall trees stripped of foliage by the fire, there are nice views of the surrounding rugged mountains through the forest of burnt tree trunks. The forest floor is covered with dense, bright green, new low vegetation, and wildflowers.

Akamina Creek can be seen and heard nearby in its valley bottom, to the left/southwest. The trail crosses several side streams that empty into Akamina Creek. To the right/northeast a steep sided ridge rises to the Great Divide, very dramatic scenery.

Significant trail junctions along Festubert Mountain Route include the West Boundary Trail junction at the 0.9 mile mark, and a climbers' route up Festubert Mountain at the 4.1 mile mark. This trail description ends after 5.3 miles where the "trail" continues on as a rough road.

Thick new, bright green low vegetation that is part of the natural recovery cycle from a wildfire, in this case the 2017 Kenow Wildfire. Wildflowers. Bears live here.