"At the 2nd notch I followed cairns and bypassed the chimney along ledges. On return I climbed the chimney. From the summt I continued and traversed to the lower summit. Big day but its a fun mountain and the views are fantastic." — Randy • Aug 29, 2025

"Jenna and I camped at Rampart Creek Sunday night and started at Mistaya around 7:20am. We saw two alpine climbers heading out as well at the same time and ran into them again at the lookout spot, then we all went our separate ways. Lots of slogging up to the ridge, then the adventure began! The first notch wasn't too bad going down, but going up was a bit sketchy and I made a mental note to self to remember this would be troublesome on the return. The second notch was fine. Jenna was a bit scared, so I went down first and then grabbed her backpack from her so she could descend without the weight and I kind of spotted her a bit. She had no problem on the climb back up later. The open ridge was a slog once again, the final ascent of the buttress more slogging and wee bit of routefinding, then came the summit block. I hate exposure and the exposure on climber's left was something else. I left my backpack off the block so I could just focus on my balance and such. We read a bit of the register, signed and headed back. Just as I suspected, we spent a lot of time downclimbing from the first notch ... painfully slow and cautious. After that it was just hoping our knees could h..." — leigh-annewebster • Aug 9, 2021

"Bach to the Sarbach after ankle injury Aug 2nd 100m into the approach of this guy...ankle felt 95% yesterday and we made quick work of the notches via the east side on both. Cruised snow free until the final 15m thin bridge to the summit. Looked sketchy and narrow. Also looked like sides were vertical or overhanging indicating the decaying nature of the improbable formation. My rock climber mindset considered the looseness of seemingly every rock but a footprint had me proceeding, splaying out to keep 4 points of contact on different rock in case the others collapsed. For some reason thought of pulling the 30m rope out of my pack never crossed my mind. Once across and holding onto seemingly firmer summit rock I popped quickly onto the summit block. Looked back at my partner to see if she was coming and noticed some of the bridge rock was actually overhanging out over the south precipice. Hmmm that was not settling since I was on that a moment earlier and I would have to go back across shortly. I pondered my options as I quickly leafed thru the summit register. Seemed like a lot of entries including numerous teams from this August. I saw a cairn too on the south side of the summit b..." — alexjoseph • Aug 30, 2020

"Did 40km on Northover Ridge the day before. 100 feet into the Mount Sarbach trail I stepped on a rock awkwardly and pulled a tendon in my ankle. Ascended 900m over 2.5 hrs to the plateau before the notches but turned around and descended 2 hrs in pain on scree. Partners Stasys and Julie summitted....off to Ontario to rest the ankle. Scramblers (3): Stasys, Julie, Alex https://www.meetup.com/canadian-scrambling-and-mountaineering-company/events/272273901/" — alexjoseph • Aug 2, 2020

"Snow and Ice around false summit and summit made for a trickery ascent. Notches were dry. Both are made easier by going climbers left, which is less obvious on the 2nd notch. Beta suggested taking the chimneys, which would be possible but a smaller 10m chimney and quick ledge traverses led you the base. Great views, bluebird day. " — ken_hercules • Jul 26, 2020

"It was a bit of a gamble with the weather. We started out with a light drizzle. We had looked at the forecast and there was supposed to be 3mm of rain that day. Since we saw water on the road and after some time in the drizzle we thought that could more or less do it. Regardless, We made it to the look out after maybe 1.5 hours. We continued a half hour further but at this time the rain had picked up and we were getting wet and cold. We were also thinknig about having to downclimb the now wet notches with cold hands. We pulled the plug and walked back to Mistaya Canyon and enjoyed some sunshine there. The weather flip-flopped back and forth as we drove south. There was a thunder storm on th drive out, so we figured we probably made the right call." — BertB • Jul 27, 2019

"Beautiful scramble. The one I don't mind repeating. We did it with the new snow on the route and it was dicey around the false summit and between the false summit and the true summit. Was probably not a scramble in the given conditions. " — Taras • Jul 18, 2016