GREGORIO PEAK 2640m
Located 1.6 kilometres northwest of Drinnon Lake, at the head of Gwillim Creek, and north of the end of the Drinnon Creek road.
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Time: 3 hours one-way from parking lot.
Map: 82F/13
1. Southeast Ridge. Travel along the Drinnon Pass trail past Drinnon Lake to the southeast ridge northwest of the lower (big) lake. Climb and contour around the east side of this avoiding the two obvious knobs.
From the col between the second knob, and the continuation of the southeast ridge, head west past the first gully to the second gully (blueberries in late August) on the face. This gully is aligned exactly north-south and goes straight up to the summit ridge. It is very steep in places (Class 5.0) and quite exposed near the top. On the ridge, it is a 200-meter ridge walk (exposed) to the summit, three hours from the parking lot.
One may wish to rappel near the top of the gully. (II,5.0,s).
FRA Bob Dean, Howie Ridge, 25/08/1970.
2. Northwest Ridge. There are steep, sedgy ledges and lichened rock on the northwest ridge (slippery when wet); good easy scrambling with route-finding problems. (II,3).
FRA Peter Wood, KMC party.
3. North Face. From camp at Gwillim Lakes, approach from the north on snow at about one-third of the way up the face from the valley There are two pitches of Class 5.5 up the middle section of the north face, above sloping ledges, neither far right nor far left.
Then climb Class 4 friction slabs to the summit. (II,5.5,s).
FRA Michael Brewster, Leo Jansma, 5/8/1983.