"I am an April Fool!... A fool maybe, but being a stubborn and persistent one sometimes pays dividends! Keep in mind that I had pretty much zippo for beta on this route other than a name, a terrain map, and a line drawn in my Basecamp app... so all said, I was pretty happy with my success on this route (as well as mucking around). This story starts out at the Allstones Lake Staging parking lot along Abraham Lake on Highway 11 and then travels into the Job/Cline Public Land Use Zone (where the summit of this mountain is located). Total time for the ascent, including sussing out a feasible ascent line on-the-fly, was just over 24 hours. I wouldn't have deliberately chased this route if Eric Coulthard hadn't put a bug in my ear about it several years prior. It is a long ways back in the bush without any easy access. A winter trip to an unnamed peak with no beta isn't a sure bet, and the attempt I made with a group on the previous Sunday ended up with me throwing in the towel in defeat. However, with a snowshoe track beaten into the trees to get me most of the way to the mountain, I was drawn in like a moth to a flame. The weather forecast predicted -5 C for when I started,..." — d-lutz • Apr 1, 2024