I had not been west of Banff this year, but it was hot this past week. The day before (Thursday) I arranged to have today (Friday) off to take adventage of the weather as it forecasted to be poor over the weekend. Off I go, with a lot of uncertainty as it is about a month ahead of the suggested time. I hiked the trail, and there was some more deadfall beyond the bridge, but otherwise it was pretty good. I turned off the trail, walked over the remains of avi snow, and start ascending. I see that there was snow in the usual ascent gully, so I chose the ridge to the left, which offered solid moderate scrambling on pretty good rock. I get higher and join the normal route higher up. I assess the summit, like everyone does in the pictures, and figure that I should go as far as I reasonably can. There was good snow in the ascent gully, so I used the ice axe (no crampons) and kickstep my way up. I get higher. Now I am facing the summit block, and the suggested route was to go around to the left, but that leads to snow slopes with huge dropoffs. So I climbed it head on as that was only a 10m snow slope with rocks at the bottom. Went back the way I came.