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Dave's Alpine Touring: Columbia Icefields
This is a big area. What you see from the highway is only a small fraction of the vast icefield above the Athabasca Headwall. Nearly every peak on the Columbia Icefield is over 11,000 feet. Unfortunately, whiteouts are part of the game up there. It takes lots of attempts to bag something. If you head up there, prepare to spend the weekend in your tent in a whiteout.
Columbia Icefields
  Andromeda   11,316 ft (3450m)
     First Attempt (Success)  09 Apr 05  
  Mt. Columbia   12,293 ft (3747M)
     First Failed Attempt  22 May 99  
     Second Failed Attempt  21 May 00  
     Third Failed Attempt  20 May 01  
     Fourth Failed Attempt  03 May 03  
     Fifth Failed Attempt  12 May 04  
     Sixth Attempt (Success)  03 Jun 04  
  Kitchener   11,410 ft (3480m)
     First Attempt (Success)  11 May 04  
  North Twin   12,234 ft (3730m)
     First Failed Attempt  16 Mar 01  
     Second Failed Attempt  25 Mar 05  
     Third Failed Attempt  06 May 06  
  Snow Dome   11,322 ft (3451m)
     First Failed Attempt  29 Apr 01  
     Second Attempt (Success)  11 May 04  
  Stutfields, (both)   11,320 ft (3450m)
     First Attempt (Success)  22 May 05