"Haffner creek lives up to the hype...and I'm going to suggest it gets even worse each year due to new avalanche debris and new erosion. I now wear it with a badge of honour. Beatrice and Ball look so close from the bivy site once you've walked in in the morning. But Beatrice is higher than it looks and Ball is further than it looks. Masocists the ones that did Ball from the parking lot in a day. Bluebird though just after the fresh snow and of course no one around. Tackled Stanley via SW the next morning and then Haffner round 2. Stasys you are a machine. Rob glad you enjoyed Haffner both ways with your full pack. 3 to go... Scramblers (2): Stasys, Alex https://www.meetup.com/canadian-scrambling-and-mountaineering-company/events/273015855/" — alexjoseph • Sep 10, 2020

"From a high bivy at the head of Haffner creek. Traversed above the cliffs on Stanley's south face until we found the Southeast ridge. The approach involved a bit of sidesloping and one third class descent that was tricky with heavy packs. Not a lot of fun. We dropped our overnight gear at the ridgeline and had an enjoyable, and reasonably straightforward scramble up Stanley. About 2.5 hours up at a casual pace. No issues on route, but there was a bit of snow at the top that gave us some potholing surprises (like walking through a minefield). Incredible views and a warm summit. We had a beer to celebrate my completion of Kane's 3rd edition. Descent from the ridge was straightforward, but ridge to creek was frustrating. We endured a lot of sidesloping over many dead end gullies until we found a cliff free route to the creek. Haffner was not better on the way out, and we didn't travel much faster than 1km/hr over the distance. Made it back before sunset, but we were pretty beat. Type 2 fun for sure!" — mike_rogers81 • Aug 4, 2019

"Well, I guess as far as things go you could call this weekend epic.... We started out with 6 people and even before we got to the bushwhack three had already dropped out due to physical exhaustion or an inability to keep to the scheduled meet-up time from a previous day's summit of Mount Cline or from not getting along due to something that happened on that trip.... We were supposed to meet at 3:30 A.M. at my place and we didn't even hear from the other three until 9:37 pm the previous night, when I wanted to be asleep... So at about 10:30 pm the three remaining amigos had figured out gear, etc. From there, we slept and all met on time. Bert wanted to go to McDonalds and they were so slow.... didn't actually leave Calgary until 4 A.M. Now, as far as the trip went, it sucked except the part from the bivy to the summit of Stanley and back. The rest was a miserable off-trail bushwhack hell from which I may never recover. We started hiking at 6:09 A.M. and arrived at the bivy about 8 hours later, set up camp, got water, and departed for Stanley at about 2:45 pm I think. Summitted just before 8 P.M. and got back to bivy around 11:30 P.M. or so with some fun hiking out with headlamp..." — leigh-annewebster • Aug 4, 2019

"2:53am start, 1:10pm return - 10:20hrs car-to-car. Went up through the glacier; returned via rock ledges, aka "summer" route. Was very warm and quite soft snow on the way back; had we started an hour later, wouldn't be able to summit." — alexp • Jun 23, 2017