Wasootch Peak

"Blue bird day for this early season hike. A little muddy in the scrambling areas and some snow remnants. Total time 4.5 hours / Total hiking time 2 Hours 57 minutes. Too much snow to make the pass safely to the North Summit." — KevinN • Mar 30, 2019

"Wanted to get up before the weather turned bad for the autumn. Took the day off and headed up after a light dusting the night before. Went solo so I moved at a good pace including a quick descent due to soft scree underfoot. Cool weather but no wind and a lovely view of the valley. " — MarkJPerkins • Sep 28, 2018

"Went up Wasootch Peak on Sunday. Beautiful day out. Snow/ice starts at around 1800m. Did it with micro spikes but my friend got up without them. The snow was good on the way up because it was early so it was hard and easy to walk on. On the way down, there was a bit of post holing involved. The ridge to North peak is snowed in and sketchy." — gabrielfiorenzano • Apr 16, 2017

"Continued past the summit to the lower peak(by two meters) then from there I continued north along the ridge to a point slightly to the west then back to lower summit and then down east ridge to a grassy spot with a cairn (grassy spot in picture). This east ridge was the most difficult part all day lots of loose rock steep and some cliffs but I could not resist the large cairn on the green grass. So from the summit all this helped add about 1.5 km and 160 meters elevation loss gain." — Randy • Jul 12, 2015

"CSMC trip: 6-peak traverse, from Wasootch to Old Baldy to McDougall. See comments in McDougall for the full report. Wasootch: Was afraid of bad weather and lots of snow a day before. But when came to the trailhead, it was clear and not much snow. Got some snow flurries right before the summit but nothing critical. " — alexp • Jun 14, 2015

"First time summiting this peak. Beautiful mix of weather to do it. Winds were light gusting around 20 km/hr on the summit. Bit dicy in a couple of spots with snow pack on the lower ridge line but overall a sweet early season scramble with fantastic views of Kananaskis Peak, Old Baldy, Wedge Mountain and of course the Nakiska. Met a couple at the summit. He seemed like a die hard scrambler but this was the first time she had ever done a scramble. Quite the feat given the difficulties involved at this time of year." — Mountainman • Feb 23, 2013

"First time for this one. A real workout, being as steep as it is. Just great, may be a favorite! Several people up there just to see and photograph eagles. Randy and Myself. 2h5m to go up and 1h5m down (including stops). Elevation gain for the day 900m, YTD elevation gain 56274m." — MtnJohn • Oct 7, 2012

"Finally was able to do this trip as it was on the to-do list for a while. The objective was the Big Traverse in Nugara's book: Wasootch Pk, Kananaskis Peak, GR338442, Oldy Baldy and MacDougall, Volcano Peak. We read that it was a 6 km walk along the highway back to the car so we decided to bring our bikes to stash them on the Evan Thomas creek side of the traverse as we were doing this from north to south. We met at 5 am in the morning (was a little late getting going and actually left calgary at 515). After stashing the bikes and locking them we were ready to go at the trail head to approach Wasootch at 650 am. Summitted all peaks." — dkmountainman • Sep 9, 2011