SPYGLASS MOUNTAIN 2830m 9285′
Spyglass is 3.6 kilometers southeast of Tenderfoot Mountain and 4 km northwest of the lower fork of Poplar Creek. It is a pile of dirt.
1. Southeast Ridge. Take the logging road up Poplar Creek (over- grown, 2015), 2.4 km (1.5 miles) beyond the fork in the road. Bushwhack up a burnt ridge toward a pocket glacier 2.4 km east of Spyglass, and camp in a beautiful setting.
Use a low pass on the southwest side of the pocket glacier, traverse the basin and climb a short, steep rotten granite wall (Class 5.2) below the summit. The rotten granite wall can be avoided by slanting ledges in a gully to the left (Class 4. (III,4,s).
FRA JB,JB,GC,ND,GK,TT, 30/7/1972.
An approach is to start from camp on the main Poplar Creek road (overgrown, 2015) west of the first south fork, just beyond the 18km sign. Climb a rock slide contacting the road at 791-769. Ascend a gully and then steep slabs (slippery when wet). Above the slabs move left to a ridge (flagging tape) and follow it to where the slope eases. No bushwhacking. . Route finding is tricky on descent, at the point where the slope eases.
2. Northwest Ridge. Descended and ascended in 1995 en route to Magnifier Mountain (see). Class 3 with some snow.