"Last moment changes and outings are usually the best: Mt Lefroy, 32.4km with 1,940m gain in 14hrs Lots of snow in the area and on the mountain. Even the whole approach to Abbot Pass is snowed in. Witnessed many rockfalls and few slides." — alexp • Jul 18, 2020

"Mt Lefroy - June 1 2019. 37km 2100m gain in 19 hours and 20 mins (yikes). Had a poor freeze (clear sky but 6 degrees at coldest down low) and we did a TON of post holing, some waist deep, even more than expected and we figured there would be lots. Getting to Abbot Pass was a huge effort. Things improved from there and kicking steps up the face of Lefroy was mostly trouble free, ankle to boot deep for the majority on a breakable crust. There was a bit of ice in the choke point. We were all able to solo through it up and down thankfully, we all had a mountaineering axe and a tool and that was sufficient. The summit ridge had a lot of snow and the cornices were quite tricky to navigate, took a lot of probing. Took us a long time to do the true summit traverse. It was about 1 degree at the summit. Took a while to descend thanks to the breakable crust, couldn't glissade and punching down it was annoying but we managed to do most of it facing outward. We glissaded down loose wet surface slides from Abbot pass down, then post holed our way back to Lake O'Hara, ugh. The walk out the 11km fire road was the best part, let me tell ya! Slowest known time on Mt Lefroy?? Perhaps. Maybe give this..." — jakefinnan • Jun 1, 2019

"An epic 19 hour day, had to stop upon reaching the summit ridge due to extreme muscle cramps - never had any pain like that every before! I'll have to go back when Abbot Hut reopens to touch the highpoint." — BobbyG • Jun 1, 2019

"Attempted it twice: Jun 25: late start @ 6pm after good afternoon temperature drop and freeze; went half way up, it was good crust on top, but too soft snow below it. Jun 26: late morning start @ 7am after high winds ceased a bit. After the overnight storm and freeze, the route became pretty much an ice climb. Bailed due to another storm and questionable storm slabs." — alexp • Jun 26, 2018

"Went up in the afternoon after hiking in from O'Hara to Abbott's Pass. Was a much different climb than the first time I did it back in 2009. Much more challenging with thinner snow cover, exposing alot of the glacier grey ice, rock bands to negotiate, etc... Down climbed the entire face. Sketchy. 2009 time hut to hut: 2.5hrs (just a big snow ramp, no ice, no rock bands) 2014 time hut to hut: 6 hrs (snow and ice. A few rock bands, ice buldges)" — k7climbing • Sep 20, 2014

"Blake and I were on leave and we drove around the clock from Ottawa, we took 3 hour shifts at the wheel. We made good time getting to Canmore in 2.5 days. On Labor day we started hiking up the laKe O,Hare trial in yoga park. On Tuesday we were at the Abbott hut. Our goal was to bag Victoria on the 10th and Lefroy the next day. We unfortunately did not summit Victoria. There was a thin sheet of ice on the slope and I dod not feel comfortable so I turned back to Abbot Hut. The next day was overcast and we climbed Lefroy from the hut. It was a snow route and we were able to use pickets to go up the West Face. It was a great climb " — andrewbrintnell1 • Sep 11, 1997