"Serious committed scramble. I followed detailed Bill Kerr's description on summitpost.org so routefinding was fairly easy. The crux are 3 chimneys commonly referred as "steps". The 1st chimney is the longest and most difficult. I resorted to lots of stemming and other climbing moves. As advertised, it goes at 5.3 if not worse. The exposure was not too bad due to the narrow confines of the chimney, but you don't want to fall here. The 2nd chimney was shorter and easier, still it was in low Class 5 range. The beginning of the 3rd chimney is severely exposed - you are above several hundred meters dropoff on the east side of the mountain, but higher up you are protected again by the narrow confined of the chimney. The final ridge is exposed too. The descent gully is solid Class 4. Exposure isn't too bad - the biggest issue are small pebble rock on ledges, which you need to clear before stepping, and the rockfall danger. This mountain shouldn't be underestimated. The standard route involves long sustained Class 3 through low Class 5 climbing. Still, I felt it fits within upper limits of what can reasonably be called "scrambling". I didn't do any sketchy moves (unlike on Storelk) and d..." — Taras • Sep 8, 2024

"Quite the day on Smuts. I had no issues with the ascent, but Paul took the right chimney and couldn't do the exposed slab move whereas I did the left chimney. In order to resolve that, I belayed him over that move so we could continue along. Unfortunately, he was carrying the rope since he's 20 years younger than me and I hadn't anticipated using it on the ascent, so I had to downclimb into his chimney and he had to throw the rope up to me to set it up. I had brought some dyneema and slings, etc. and rappel gear, so we made it work with me anchored on a flake with dyneema and a body belay, but it was still sketch and used up so much adrenalin and energy. We made it up safely the rest of the way and enjoyed some summit time. We did two raps on the descent and downclimbed the rest. Someone had cordelette with a maillon around the big boulder up high and then I found the piton with the rap ring lower down. Safe, slow and steady were the themes of the day. 150th Kane Peak! Only 10 left in the second edition now. " — leigh-annewebster • Aug 30, 2022

"South face ski attempt. Got to about 300m below the summit before the sun had started cooking the snowpack, had some sluffs run by us way too close and decided to bail. A majority of the face had slid earlier this week likely due to the recent rain and sun exposure." — BobbyG • May 12, 2018

"CSMC trip (Smuts, The Fist, Tent Ridge) total 27km in 13hrs 2000m ascent and 2km of bushwack. Skies were clear of smoke. Smuts ascent went smoothly and never pulled out rope. Did at least 3 chimneys and one exposed slabby move. Started up the "elevator" slab from the talus which was nice easy ascending and a bit of wind shelter. Then took the 2nd right most chimney line as opposed to ascending the talus. The chimney got steeper but grippy and nice to be in the thing with shoulders and stemming to either side. Easy top out and then followed right side of ridge along some talus and a few climb over spots. Past a short 10 ft slab with death exposure to the right. More talus up to headwall and choice of 2 chimneys. No cairns yet. So left chimney looked better but was steeper at the bottom but you're in the chimney so no big deal. Up to next ledge and confirmed left was better than exposed loose right. Then up what looked like the chimney to right of crack. Not top yet. To right side along an exposed path to cairn and base of last chimney. This one had likely death exposure at bottom and turned out to be loose so we ascended one at a time. Once in it was easy but everyone dropped rock. ..." — alexjoseph • Sep 2, 2017

"Finally climbed up Mount Smuts. Took the normal ascent route, and what I believe to be the normal descent route. Awesome, hands on scrambling. Beautiful fall day with larches turning every which way we looked." — matt-robinson • Sep 27, 2015

"Wasn't as bad as I expected: A low fifth class chimney, then a fourth class chimney. I found the ridge pretty straight forward (I was expecting something that would be scarier). The descent took a while as I carefully climbed down the gully. The scree that followed was tedious for a while." — BertB • Aug 8, 2015