Shunga-la-she

"An enjoyable ascent of Shunga-la-she snuck in before the Sheep River area closes for the winter. Surprisingly little snow below the tree line made the first part of the ascent quicker than expected. Route finding through a dozen or so rock bands in high winds was slow but manageable. The wind calmed down just as we reached the summit which was a nice treat. The last hour was in headlamps." — yuri • Nov 13, 2021

"It was a hot day. I started up solo. I heard voices on the way up, but could not see them for some time. Finally once above tree line I was able to spot the other party. I continued on to the summit and was relieved that the voices were not in my head and it turned out to be Sonny Bou and his party (Sosia, Andrea and Peter). I joined them and we went over to Jagermeister Peak. This was a sustained difficult scramble. The rock was typical, of fair quality at best. We thought it might be better not to retrace our steps, but the descent we used might persuade me to perhaps retrace our steps. It was a really hot day and that didn't help much." — BertB • Jun 26, 2021

"Started out OK but got very foggy and wet as we got on the north ridge. Very limited visibility. Thankfully, it cleared for a few minutes on the summit and we got a few nice pics. Took the old road west for about 3 km. After you cross the bridge there is a cairn and exit on your left after about 25M. Then straight up. " — danradu • Sep 2, 2020

"Shunga-La-She - GR569046 traverse: 16.3km with 1,400m gain in 7hrs return. Shunga-La-She is an easy to moderate scramble, with surprisingly solid rock on the ridge; GR569046 - another level, good difficult scramble with few exposed movements. Wanted to connect to Highwood Peak, but looked like it's not a scramble after GR569046. Got really windy on the way back; almost as a norm, the weather started to deteriorate earlier than was saying in a forecast." — alexp • Jul 27, 2019

"Not quite ski time...meant a foot hills scramble was in order. Gerry chose Shunga-la-she which looked like a quick 10km 1000m ascent. Turned out to be much sportier with snow on the ridge and high winds (14km). We shaved more than an hour off Spirko's ascent from 17 years to the day earlier. Thanks Gerry for a great day!" — alexjoseph • Nov 3, 2018

"The deep snow turned Shunga-la-she into a more challenging objective than expected. Some sections felt more like mountaineering than scrambling. I was glad I had an ice-axe since on many sections a slip could have sent you hundreds meters down the snowy slopes." — Taras • Oct 14, 2018

"Avoided Spirko's track and walked the Sheep River Trail until we crossed the newly reconstructed bridge about an hour down the trail. We shot left immediately into the forest and met with Spirko's track line. We followed it up to the ridge, then gained the summit. Really fun hands on scrambling. Descended the same way. Be ready for a slog through the forest!" — C-Young • Nov 30, 2015

"Objective for the day was Shunga-La-She and the connecting ridge up GR569046. We met in Calgary at 6:20 am and headed down to the Sandy McNabb area. It was the first time for both of us to head in to this provincial park. I was planning on heading in the area last winter to do some cross country skiing but never got around to it. We were quite surprised to see how paved the roads were past the winter gate. Again since we only have another month until all the road closures on highway 66, 40, 940, etc. we wanted to hit this area before Dec 1. Instead of taking Spirko or Nugara's route we decided to bring our bikes in so we wouldn't have to do the wading of the sheep river, which would be pretty damn cold at this time of the year. We parked our bikes a few kms in and right after the bridge along the gravel road. From there we went straight up. There was quite a lot of flagging tape on the way up. We summitted both peaks." — dkmountainman • Oct 25, 2011