Mount Yukness

Mt. Yukness stats.
5 August 2006

After getting chased away the previous day by sleet/hail/lightning we returned to scramble Yukness from Elizabeth Parker Hut.

Two words on this one. Uberfantastic views.

The scrambling get scrambly below the pinnacles en route to the mountains summit. Otherwise it's pretty easy.
Getting into the right gully helps a lot here. Stay below the pinnacles and pick your route to gain the summit ridge. I think we took the second gully from the climbers left and moved over to the third gully halfway up.

I don't think Yukness (south summit) sees a whole lot of traffic since the register has been there for 14 years (or was it 12, whatever).


Turned back from the Opabin Plateau by this weather. Photo taken from hut.


West flank of Yukness taken from Opabin Plateau less then 24 hours after the above photo.


Trev ascending Yukness.


Hank climbing one of the gully walls below the south summit ridge.


The views abound.

Mount Sparrowhawk

Mt. Sparrowhawk stats.

28 July 2006
Easy scramble with Shawn. We did this one as a daytrip from St. Albert. We hit the road at 04:30 and got back really damn late.
Most of this mountain is a looooong, easy plod. Once you hook around the summit block it is simply a steeper plod on loose scree.
Since it is 10240 feet high, you get some great views. From the summit I could see Assiniboine and Joffre easily. Although Joffre kept slipping behind cloud cover and eluding my camera.



From the ridge. Follow the drainage to get past Reads Tower, then plod plod plod up to the right side of the summit block and curve around the the easily ascended back.


On the summit, Assiniboine in the distance.


The Big Sister stands tall. A layer of stratus cloud kept Canmore socked in all day.


Shawn heading down, Mt. Nestor across the lake.