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Mount Charles Stewart South Peak | 2011-10-30
Mount Charles Stewart South Peak
- Location: Canmore
- Activity: Scrambling
- Height: 2,803 m (9,197 ft)
- Elevation Gain: 1,480 m (4,856 ft)
- Distance: 12.7 km / Round Trip (7.9 mi)
- Avg Steepness: 13.1°
- Estimated Time: 6.5-9 hrs
- Technicality: Intermediate
- Fitness Level: Moderate
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Little unknown weather condition on Sunday, I thought it would be a safer choice to go to south peak of Mount Charles Stewart. Seeing Spirko & Nugara’s trip reports, it should be a scree scree scree approach and it was.
Approach:
Not really sure where to start. I had track from Spirko and we parked where he started. However the gate was closed and had sign saying anybody who enters the gate will be head chopped. On the way back we tried different route but that ended up in some farmer’s property… So please leave a note if you know where Johnny’s Trail starts. Johnny sucks!
After we came across Johnny’s stinky trail, we followed it. For a while we had a good trail but as drainage became narrower, the trail was swollen by the creek rocks, so most of the way we didn’t have trail.
South Slope:
After rather interesting walk through canyon, we came out at the bottom of south slope. It’s scree scree and more scree. Again I heard scree here is really good for scree run, but it was frozen… The slope became steeper as we scrambled up, especially last 200 to 300 m, rock fall hazards can be serious matter.
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Mount Charles Stewart South Peak | 2011-10-30
At the canyon. Pretty cool.
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Mount Charles Stewart South Peak | 2011-10-30
Creek rocks… I don't like it but here it wasn't too bad.
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Mount Charles Stewart South Peak | 2011-10-30
Scree scree scree!! Slog slog slog!!
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Mount Charles Stewart South Peak | 2011-10-30
Lady Mac on right. The shape of Lady Mac from this angle was little different from what I imagined.
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Mount Charles Stewart South Peak | 2011-10-30
This is how Heather will look like when she becomes a homeless.
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Mount Charles Stewart South Peak | 2011-10-30
Aislinn and Wil on summit ridge.
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Mount Charles Stewart South Peak | 2011-10-30
Forecast was saying up to 100 km wind but it was probably up to 30 or 40. We had the worst weather at the summit. Rest of the day was not bad at all.
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Mount Charles Stewart South Peak | 2011-10-30
Summit photo. From left: Heather, Wil, Aislinn, me, Clayton.
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Mount Charles Stewart South Peak | 2011-10-30
Ridgewalker Mark Evans wanted to traverse this ridge between Lady Mac and South Charles. It is actually interesting. My be keep it for future trip.
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Mount Charles Stewart South Peak | 2011-10-30
This is where Superman landed with his spaceship when he came to Earth.
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Mount Charles Stewart South Peak | 2011-10-30
Celebrating little bit late birthday for Crazy Creature.
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