"Elbow - Sheep West loop: Cougar Mountain (with its two sub peaks) - Mt Burns traverse 51k with 2,500m gain (on foot - 28k / 2150m gain; the rest is bike in & out) TL;DR: Burns W Ridge is an alpine climb, do NOT recommend it as a scramble!! --- Long Read: Had an unfinished business for some years in that area: last time I did Threepoint - Rose - Bluerock, but then had to bail due to the weather (https://peakery.com/bluerock-mountain-alberta/summits/175245/). This time decided to attempt the loop in CCW direction, primarily because I haven't bagged neither Cougar nor Burns yet. Cougar Mountain: the route is well-known and reported. I guess the only to note, that a ridge section from its "NE" sub-peak is longer with more ups & downs than expected. "Cougar South": 200m+ drop off the previous one and consecutive re-gain, but easy ridge walk with no surprises. The only surprise is a summit cairn at its top. No register though. Nor have seen any reports on it in the Net. Burns W Ridge: first part is easy to moderate, the fun (and alpine climbing) starts when hitting a pyramid shape in the middle of the ridge. At certain point I hit a large drop that wouldn't been po..." — alexp • Sep 6, 2024

"Needed to get out as the weekend will be family time. I biked about 2/3 of the way in, dragging the bike further than I perhaps should have. Found my own way up and while that was fine, I didn't want to find and downclimb the way I came up. It took a while to get up, but the weather was good and I pushed on with teh possibility of walking out in the dark. I went to the other side of the bowl (I recommend not doing) where I saw scree slopes leading down a away. While that part was ok, it led to sttep slab slopes with scree on them, and the waterways were guarded by vertical walls. After some looking around and some concern, I found my way. I rejoined the route and went down" — BertB • Aug 12, 2020