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Peaks at Crawford Creek Headwaters Map: 82F/15 Kaslo Back in 1991 and 1992 I made three day trips with the KMC to this drainage northeast of the Kootenay Bay ferry terminal and climbed three peaks between 2510 and 2550 m. On … Continue reading →

PEAKS NORTH of CAMPBELL CREEK  by Kim Kratky  Map: 82F/15 Kaslo Unnamed 2720 m  8924′ at 176-374 (8kms west of Kootenay Lake and 12kms east of the Leaning Towers) Unnamed 2838 m  9311′ at 211-352  Unnamed 2842 m 9324′ (Mt Neave) at 215-348 Unnamed 2720 m 8924′ … Continue reading →

MT PATRICK   2722 m   8930’ by Kim Kratky  Map: 82F/16 Dewar Creek Mt. Patrick lies just south of the southern boundary of St. Mary’s Alpine Park in the angle between Dewar Creek and White Creek. Access is via the Manson Col … Continue reading →

MT MANSON   2748m    9016′   by Kim Kratky  Map: 82F/16 Dewar Creek, St. Mary’s Alpine Park Not having ever been to St. Mary’s Alpine Park, I was intrigued to see if the comments of my few friends who had visited … Continue reading →

Map: 82K/7 Duncan Lake BASTILLE MT  2608m 8556′ From Jumbo Pass 7480′, climb the scree near-trail to the 8250′ col to the west of Bastille Mt. Then it is a 300′ scramble 500m east to the summit of Bastille. PEAKS SOUTH … Continue reading →

MOUNT EVANS    2734m   8970’ by Kim Kratky  Map: 82F/9 St. Mary Lake Mt. Evans, the second highest Purcell peak south of Gray Creek Pass, is located 9 km. southwest of St. Mary Lake and 15 km. east of Snowcrest … Continue reading →

In Search of Mt. Baldr 2799m 9183’ by Kim Kratky  Map: 82F/15 Kaslo No, that’s just wrong. I know exactly where Baldr is; I just can’t get to it, and the outing of Sunday, August 9th, was to prove no … Continue reading →

MT BALDR   2799m   8183’ by Kim Kratky  Map: KASLO 82F/15  Did I really want to go on this KMC club trip? I had already collected two attempts, and two failures (1998, 2004), on Baldr from this Powder Creek access, enduring … Continue reading →

FOUR SQUATTERS by Peter Jordan  After many years of eying the Four Squatters from several directions, I thought I had figured out the approach well enough to try to climb them. Two years earlier, I tried a couple of approaches … Continue reading →

MOUNT LOKI   2771m   9090′ Mt Loki is on everyone’s list. It is the most prominent peak EES across Kootenay Lake as viewed from Kaslo. Before this road access occurred, Loki was a technical climb from the east. In 2005 Portman … Continue reading →