Dave's Alpine Climbs
Welcome to my Alpine Climbs section. Now, this is mountaineering at its best. Alpine
climbing generally includes various types of climbing. You can have your alpine rock, which
could be anything from easy fifth class rock to near vertical faces which run for thousands of feet.
Rock climbing is not my favourite, but it's a good skill to have in order to be an "all around" mountaineer.
The other type of climbing included in "alpine climbing" would be snow and ice climbing, my
favourite. This is where you get to cross glaciers, run up steep snow and ice faces, etc.
In my opinion, this is where the fun is.
Much like the Scrambling in the Canadian Rockies, there is a good book for finding
route information up these peaks. It's titled, "Selected Alpine Climbs in the Canadian Rockies"
and it's by Sean Dougherty. Unlike Alan Kane's scrambles book, I have no intention of
climbing every route in the book. There are over 200 routes, and some are very technical rock
climbs, which just don't appeal to me. For the most part, I'm after the 11,000 footers, but
if it's a classic snow and ice route, there's a good chance you'll find it on my "to-do" list.
Splitting this section up was not an easy task. Dougherty's book has 15 sections to it, and because many
of the sections only include one or two peaks that appeal to me, it didn't make sense to have that
many sections. Also, there are peaks that aren't necessarily in his book. So I had to come up with my
own grouping. For the most part, it is organized by National Park. If the mountain is not in a
national park (like Assininboine), I group it with the closest park (Kootenay).
Alpine climbs by Area
| Banff National Park |
| |
Mountain |
Date Last Climbed |
Total Elevation |
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Mt. Aberdeen - E Face |
24 Jul 99 |
10,338 ft (3151M) |
|
Abotts Pass Hut |
01 Sep 00 |
9,598 ft (2926M) |
 |
Mt. Cline - S Ridge |
08 Aug 04 |
11,027 ft (3361M) |
|
Eisenhower Peak |
17 Jun 06 |
9,029 ft (2752m) |
|
Mt. Fay - N Face |
03 Aug 03 |
10,614 ft (3235M) |
|
Mt. Lefroy - W Face |
23 Aug 00 |
11,230 ft (3423M) |
|
The Mitre |
05 Aug 06 |
9,469 ft (2886m) |
|
Neil Colgan Hut |
02 Aug 03 |
9,700 ft (2957M) |
|
Stanley Peak - N Face |
25 Oct 98 |
10,351 ft (3155M) |
|
Storm Mtn - E Ridge |
20 Aug 05 |
10,368 ft (3160m) |
|
Unnamed Peak - E Ridge |
23 Jul 06 |
10,350 ft (3155m) |
|
Mt. Victoria North - NE Ridge |
25 Aug 02 |
11,116 ft (3388M) |
|
Mt. Victoria South - SE Ridge |
07 Jul 01 |
11,365 ft (3464M) |
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