Redbeard: Attached below is our track along the Bypass Trail. It discreetly leaves the Deeks Lake Trail around 580m. Small metal tag on a tree. Easy to miss. This was our first time up the Bypass Trail, so I don't know how it goes in snow. It is steep. I imagine navigation would be difficult if you are breaking trail.

guntis: I like the Bypass Trail as well, and prefer it over the Kallahne route to Deeks Peak.

oldmatt: I agree, that step down to the east side of Deeks would be easier in the other direction with a dog. Doesn't look like much of a problem for us uprights in either direction, though? That is the area where the bugs were at their worst. I had to resort to the net (which I lost while slipping and sliding down into the gully) just to breathe. Thanks for the work you put into the trail.

martin: I don't know where it came from, but I was always under the impression the Bypass Trail wasn't very dog friendly. Katie had no trouble with it, whatsoever.

Thanks guys. : )

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