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Date:
September
3, 2006
Participants:
Author and Carrie
Distance:
7.5km
Elevation
Gain:
940m
Maximum
Elevation:
2620m
Elapsed
Time:
5:15
Published
Routes:
Kane
Published
Rating:
Moderate
Difficulty
- Endurance:
4.5
Difficulty
- Technical:
3 (3.5 in a few isolated spots)
We failed
to summit. Carrie had recently done the 2 day, 60 km, “Walk for the Cure”
in Vancouver
and had injured her foot. She did an admirable job of almost making it to the false summit before things got too painful and
she pulled the chute. It not being cool to abandon a party member, I hustled
about 20 minutes to the false summit and called it a day. Although the summit
was certainly calling my name, I resisted as it appeared that there was nothing more interesting than another 45 minutes of
never ending rumble to climb to get there. The call of a waiting party member
and the horrible rubble terrain made turning around an easy decision. I would
suggest staying off the route to the false summit and just head up the alternate drainage to avoid the horrific rubble terrain. Lord knows you will have enough Rockies rubble on the walk to the true summit from the drainage so there is no sense in prolonging the torture.
Zig-zagging over the first cliff band from the trail to West Wind Pass. Leave the trail about 85% of the way up
to the pass at a medium sized cairn then cut left to easily surmount the first set of cliffs. There is no need,
and it is likley not desirable, to go all the way to the pass before leaving the trail.
The second cliff band. Although it may look tame, this rock is steep, chossy and 5th class... not a good idea to
climb. I tried it in a few spots when we were screwing around on descent and I had hold after hold pull out on me. (I
recently climbed rock very similar in angle and hold number to this on Seymour and the difference was truly astounding!)
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