"Emerald - Top Hat - CarMar Peaks traverse abandoned attempt on Mount Marpole (see below) 19.9km with 1,980m gain in 8:35hrs return Emerald - Top Hat traverse is done all the time and tons of reports on it. As a side note, was pleasantly surprised with some fun scrambling by Emerald's summit. Was hoping to extend the route to Mt Marpole on which not much information. Linking Top Hat to CarMar (in Jones' book and Rick Collier's TR; or "South Marpole" in another TR) is fairly straightforward side-hilling and slog if staying lower, or some interesting and exposed ledges when staying higher (not sure I'd recommend to follow my GPS track there). Once back to a ridge, pretty solid and nice easy scramble. Jones, I assume based on Collier's report from 1990, marked Marpole SW ridge as class 4, i.e. difficult scrambling. Got some doubts of it looking from CarMar (which is quite close): there are some ugly notches on the first hump on the ridge and Marpole's summit block looks almost like an overhanding slab. While it's definitely not obvious and deceiving from a distance but soloing without a rope I didn't want to get into such [unknown] terrain. Another possibility, the rid..." — alexp • Aug 25, 2020