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Highlights
- Thunder Mountain was the first mountain climbed by a European in the Canadian Rockies, by Peter Fidler in 1792
Routes
8 climbs • 8.5 km • 2,238 m gain • 6 hr 26 min
6 climbs • 9.2 km • 3,042 m gain • 6 hr 25 min
1 climb • 9.4 km • 3,062 m gain • 13 hr 15 min
Latest climbs
"Livingston range traverse minus the last ridge.
Very good route, very difficult for the single day. Only recommend if you’re in very good conditioning and have high comfort on class 4 scrambling. Do not expect to run more than maybe a km or two in the first 30kms. Most of it is hands on scrambling. The last 10kms would be possible to jog although we were not in the condition to do so. I brought 4l of water. Would have loved 5. Started at 3:20am which was a good call, did the first 15km’s out of the sun which likely helped a lot. Took us just over 15hrs at a good walking pace with almost no breaks and no errors in route finding " — RockyMountainGoats • Jul 7, 2024
"The route was a mix of bare and snow that was either deep, crusty, hard or ice. I donned snowshoes and crampons two times each. On a short snowy steep section on an otherwise bare ridge, I used the ice axe to cut about ten steps in the hard snow to reach the dry rock and scramble up." — Randy • Jan 10, 2023
"Ascended via standard north ridge route. High winds and lots of crusty snow. Despite being rated an "easy" scramble, there were two sections of exposed moderate scrambling along the ridge. " — yuri • Oct 31, 2020
"Windy rainy day on Thunder Mountain. A lot of snow on the ridge, spent a lot of time post-holing. Insane winds on the ridge, knocked us down quite a bit. Accidentally took the West ridge down for a few minutes before realizing we were off track. We heard some loose wet sluffs while descending in the afternoon. " — BobbyG • Mar 18, 2017
"It's an easy scramble in summer but gets much more challenging in the wintery conditions. We followed the ridgeline all the way to avoid steep slopes with deep snow or ice. This was a solid moderate scramble.
Things got a bit dicey near the summit. Couldn't follow the summer trail to the top due to an overhanging cornice. Had to go straight up on the ridge. Snow on a 30-35 degree slope was windblasted into pure ice. I had to carefully carve steps with ice-axe. There was no room for error." — Taras • Mar 29, 2013
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