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Mount Nestor Attempt | 2010-01-23
Mount Nestor
- Location: Kananaskis Country (Highway 742)
- Activity: Scrambling
- Height: 2,975 m (9,761 ft)
- Elevation Gain: 1,320 m (4,331 ft)
- Distance: 10.8 km / Round Trip (6.7 mi)
- Avg Steepness: 13.7°
- Estimated Time: 7-11 hrs
- Technicality: Advanced
- Fitness Level: Hard
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Pink line is the actual track I took which was recorded by my GPS. We took Kane's decent route to go up and down. Don't park where I parked. It's avalanche zone and I didn't know park can give you ticket. I got warning this time though. If you are doing in summer, either you have to swim the lake or bike on the other side of the lake like Bobspriko did.
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Mount Nestor Attempt | 2010-01-23
Going up the snow covered drainage. Snow is getting heavier and harder now and snowshoeing is getting harder to do.
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Mount Nestor Attempt | 2010-01-23
Getting close to avalanche path.
(Photo By Ali Shariat)
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Mount Nestor Attempt | 2010-01-23
Accidentally get up on a wrong ridge. The bigger ridge is the ridge you see from 742.
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Mount Nestor Attempt | 2010-01-23
The peak from here seems so far. At this point we already spent 4 hours.
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Mount Nestor Attempt | 2010-01-23
Never have experienced such dramatic temperature change. It was -10 C at car. Then it becomes 0 C for a while. When we arrived at the peak, it was -20 C, then it went back to -10 C at car.
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Mount Nestor Attempt | 2010-01-23
Correcting our route. Luckily we didn't have to lose too much elevations and easily went up on the correct ridge.
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Mount Nestor Attempt | 2010-01-23
However we had to walk across avalanche path to fix our mistake.
(Photo By Ali Shariat)
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Mount Nestor Attempt | 2010-01-23
Wasn't expecting to see blue sky, so I was happy to see this gorgeous view.
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Mount Nestor Attempt | 2010-01-23
Fossil. My great great great… great great great grampa.
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Mount Nestor Attempt | 2010-01-23
Combination of light flurries, clouds, and sun beam made the view mystic. Mouseover to see names.
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Mount Nestor Attempt | 2010-01-23
I don't know how but that sun beam was lighting up straight down for a long time.
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Mount Nestor Attempt | 2010-01-23
Mount Assiniboine. Someday someday.
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Mount Nestor Attempt | 2010-01-23
After a long exhausting ascent, we found out there was still more. (ＴｗＴ。)
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Mount Nestor Attempt | 2010-01-23
I recognized this last narrow ridge just before the summit from other websites.
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Mount Nestor Attempt | 2010-01-23
The condition of the ridge didn't look good at all but we decided to try anyway.
(Photo By Ali Shariat)
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Mount Nestor Attempt | 2010-01-23
We had to remove snow so that we step on rock not snow.
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Mount Nestor Attempt | 2010-01-23
Once we saw the ridge from the beginning of the ridge, there was no way to walk. Way too much snow on a such a narrow ridge, even poking with a hiking pole couldn't reach the rock. We were almost at the summit, but after 6 hours of ascent we gave up. Snowalker was defeated (my axe is called is Snowalker from Petzl).
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Mount Nestor Attempt | 2010-01-23
I was accidentally here when there was forest fire. I am guessing these burned trees are result of that.
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Mount Nestor Attempt | 2010-01-23
Walking on frozen Spary Lakes to get back to the car.
(Photo By Ali Shariat)
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Mount Nestor Attempt | 2010-01-23
Some of the thick ice pushed on shore. My ice axe is about 70 cm long. You can see how thick these ices are.
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