Mount Glasgow

"On 6 July, we ascended the east ridge of Mt Glasgow, with mostly dry conditions except a few snow patches near the top. Near the summit, we split to explore various routes. I stuck to the ridge which involved some route finding and hands-on scrambling sections. For variety we descended slabs and scree into the valley south of Glasgow, and followed the creek all the way. This route was more adventurous that the ascent as there were numerous waterfalls to navigate our way around." — geoffhardy • Jul 6, 2024

"The Four peak traverse was the plan. Got fed up with the wind and wanted to enjoy the nicer weather below. Returned via the Cornwall Route. Lots of waterfalls along south Glasgow creek. Some of the bigger falls and a canyon need to be bypassed. " — Randy • Jul 17, 2019

"Clouds descended on us and we lost visibility to 2200m. (see pictures). As a result had trouble with route finding espiscially around banded peak where we descended to far and did not make the south ridge on the first attempt....or second. Still a successful 4 peak elbow traverse." — ken_hercules • Aug 1, 2017

"First Mountain in a traverse of the 4 elbow peaks. Rode bikes 4km from Little Elbow and stashed the bikes. Followed So's trail for the most part and ascended straight up the South Slopes. Lots of loose scree but found a few gulleys with solid rock. Gained the SW ridge and followed up to the summit. Some moderate scrambling en-route. Then descended to the Glasgow-Cornwall col. Rest of trip report on Banded Peak" — MarkJPerkins • Jul 14, 2017

"CSMC trip, did Elbow 4-peak traverse: Mt. Glasgow – Mt. Cornwall – Outlaw Peak – Banded Peak Didn't use bikes, just took Spirko's (East ridge) route up and So's way down from the Banded. Got some rain by Banded Peak and on the way down 31.05km in total 2,360m of elevation gain around 13 hours car to car " — alexp • Jul 25, 2015

"Did the Elbow 4 traverse as per soistheman. Big Elbow trail is damaged, but we were able to bike far enough along it. We dodged thunderstorms in the afternoon. 14h mountainside." — BertB • Aug 2, 2014

"Another CSMC trip with Gerry Richardson and Stephan. Plan was to do all 4 peaks in the Elbow Traverse but snow and short days prevented that. We clocked 30km with a 7am start and bike in the dark but verglass on the upper summit slabs on Glasgow and then a gruelling verglass scree slog up Cornwall to avoid the knee deep snow meant we would be summitting the 4th peak at sunset...so we bailed after two." — alexjoseph • Oct 6, 2012

"The objective for the day was the traverse from Mt. Glasgow to Banded Peak. I heard about this trip last year as a bike switch and had thought an ideal party would be 4. (Because if you only had 2 people; you would have to solo then switch bikes on either end). However after discussing with Clayton, he had mentioned that the whole thing can be done a different route by approaching Glasgow from the east. We did the research and there were a handful of trip reports that helped us figure out an objective. We biked in for the first 4 km and stashed our bikes at South Glasgow Creek. We summitted all 4 peaks (Glasgow, Cornwall, Outlaw and Banded." — dkmountainman • Oct 13, 2011

"Learning to walk.... Don't walk with your hands inside your pack shoulder belts, especially don't interweave your fingers. When you trip, the ground comes up faster than you can deal with! " — MtnJohn • Jul 6, 1996