"Mountaineering ascent. Deadfall and the boulder field was extremely annoying especially under a lot of snow. Carried my snowshoes all the way to the summit and back as I wasn't sure which way I was coming down. Didn't use them. if I knew I was returning the same way I would've dropped them around Volcano summit. A few short pockets of deep snow weren't enough to use the 'shoes. The crux is full of snow which I felt was even helpful ))." — antons • Jan 7, 2026

"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

"Solo go up the big traverse, mostly easy to moderate scrambling depending on the line you take on the ridge, very similar in difficulty and length to the opal traverse. Coming down from volcano peak to the road is an absolute pain, it took me 4 hours to get to that point and a further 2 hours to do 1 km of the most brutal bushwhacking ever, just a spiderweb of burnt fallen trees at about waist height on quite steep terrain. Follow the gps line and you should be able to get to the logging road to get out of there… Good Luck " — corbinruthven • Sep 17, 2022

"CSMC trip: 6-peak traverse, from Wasootch to Old Baldy to McDougall. See comments in McDougall for the full report. Wasootch: Was afraid of bad weather and lots of snow a day before. But when came to the trailhead, it was clear and not much snow. Got some snow flurries right before the summit but nothing critical. Kananaskis peak: Somewhere before the peak got a cloud with zero visibility for some time but it cleared up pretty quickly. I guess we bypassed the crux as it was described in all reports. Scrambling at the moderate level, not more. Old Baldy: nice and easy ridge walk, very straightforward. McDougall: same here, pleasant and relaxing. Volcano peak: I'd say the ridge between McDougall and Volcano is even more interesting than between Wasootch and Kananaskis. Definitely nice moderate scramble with beautiful rock formations. Not sure if there is any trail to the creek and forest road but we didn't find it. Bushwacking a lot, were lucky that we got to that road before the darkness. Back to the car in the dark. Move time about 9hrs, car-to-car - 16hrs. One guy was extremely slow, lost at least 4 hours with him." — alexp • Jun 14, 2015

"Summitted it as a part of Old Baldy - McDougall - Volcano Peak Traverse. Traverse from Old Baldy is straightforward and relatively easy even in the winter conditions except the initial very steep descent from Old Baldy Peak. " — Taras • Apr 9, 2015

"Finally was able to do this trip as it was on the to-do list for a while. The objective was the Big Traverse in Nugara's book: Wasootch Pk, Kananaskis Peak, GR338442, Oldy Baldy and MacDougall, Volcano Peak. We read that it was a 6 km walk along the highway back to the car so we decided to bring our bikes to stash them on the Evan Thomas creek side of the traverse as we were doing this from north to south. We met at 5 am in the morning (was a little late getting going and actually left calgary at 515). After stashing the bikes and locking them we were ready to go at the trail head to approach Wasootch at 650 am. Summitted all peaks." — dkmountainman • Sep 29, 2011