Highest peak
Mount Joffre
11,318 ft / 3,449 m
Most prominent peak
Mount Joffre
5,003 ft / 1,525 m prom
Most summited peak
Mount Allan
72 summits
Most difficult peak
Mount Rae
Class 3
Difficulty breakdown
Class 3/4 3 peaks
Class 5+ 2 peaks
Highlights
Latest summits
"Traverse from Gunnery-Holy Cross to Mt Head. Winter conditions but spring weather made for a beautiful day. It’s a challenging ridge when you have to stick to it due to avy danger/snow covering possible bypasses but it is doable. Expect 5th class for sure. In the summer it would be much easier and less post holing
I also linked up to sentinel pass" — Rocky Mountain Goats • Mar 16, 2024
"When an invitation to the Ghost comes along, you generally tend to take it. I prepared in the two days prior. It was a tough 16h day. It was an approach that required much route finding to get past the waterfalls in the slot canyons. Once past that it was another 800m of up in the heat of the day. At least there were plenty of water sources along the way." — BertB • Aug 28, 2023
"Hiked Middle Sister from the Spray Lakes side so I could grab The Orphan as well. The trail is well travelled and route finding is easy. I don’t think I scrambled any sections, so this can be done as a hike. The only thing I’d do different is to stay skier right when dropping into the amphitheatre after The Orphan. I thought I could save some elevation lost by staying high and traversing left. This plan didn’t turn out to be very efficient. Good objectives for a smoky day. Finished with a swim in Spray Lakes Reservoir. " — ivo • Aug 7, 2023
"After attempting this one twice before the time had come to get it done. I started out hiking at 6:43am, pushed until I got to the summit. I had some minor routefinding to do but it was not bad by any means. There was some handy flagging that definitely helped me out. I reached the summit, took a few pics and started to head down as there already was dull distant thunder. About 10 mins in to the descent I was caught in a full on thunderstorm directly overhead. The mountain turned white. I waited a few mins but ultimately had to get down. Once off the summit block things got better but the rain went on and I was soaked when I got back to the car." — BertB • Aug 6, 2023
"We modified the route by going up the SW Ridge of Wasootch. We also added an additional peak (Peakery) by doing an out-and-back from Kananaskis Peak to one of her outliers. To start, we parked at Evan-Thomas Creek Day Use area because this is where we would finish. We then biked mostly down hill for about 5km to the unmarked Trailhead for the SW ridge to Wasootch Peaks.
On decent from Wasootch North, we dipped into the bowl on the east side. Chelsea and I each ended up on separate routes (one high, one low), both worked. This helped avoid additional elevation gain if we were to back track all the way to Wasootch South.
Scrambling along the ridge was a lot of fun. As mentioned in many other trip reports, you have the option to take scree bypasses around many sections. We didn’t take any of the bypasses and found the scrambling to be quite enjoyable (class 2/3 in my opinion). The rock was solid anytime we felt real exposure. So my recommendation would be to favour the ridge when presented with an option. If you don’t like exposure, or your trying to minimize trip duration, take the bypasses.
It felt like 75% of the traverse was straightforward ridge walking with eas..." — ivo • Jul 29, 2023