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BLUEBELL MT    2179m   7,184’ 5 kilometres due east of downtown Riondel. Overlooks Riondel. Difficulty: B2 Distance: 5km return Elevation gain: 1,814’ Access: 4WD Map: 82K15/ Kaslo and 82K/10 Crawford Bay Drive: From Riondel, drive to km 12.1 on the Tam O’Shanter … Continue reading →

SARDINE MT   2149m   7,050’ A mountain with trees and a character-building bushwhack to the top. Sounds like a trip for masochists, someone who wants to get up everything around Riondel or someone who wants a first ascent. This attests to … Continue reading →

In this chapter are collected scattered peaks located on or adjacent to the main Purcell divide, which rise in the region S of the line of Dutch and Camey Creeks. Only a few summits attain an elevation of 10,000′, the … Continue reading →

This small group of unusual peaks, also known as the “Fry Pinnacles”, lift their sharp wedges W of the main Purcell watershed. Visible from many points in the S Purcells, the towers are situated along the upper course of Forest Creek, … Continue reading →

This group of nondescript peaks in the 9000′ class rises about 6 mi W of Mt Hamill in the Toby-Hamill massif and extends some 6 mi in the direction of Kootenay Lake, from which the Wmost alpine-type peak is 5 … Continue reading →

This small group of summits is clustered about the Macbeth Snowfield, a high neve rising about 6 mi E of the N end of Duncan Lake and N of Glacier Creek. The neve proper is about 3 mi in length, … Continue reading →

WESTERN PURCELLS (note: this material is 1976 vintage – things haven’t changed much) Here are included those mountain groups and individual alpine peaks which rise W – often well to the W – of the main Purcell watershed and which … Continue reading →

Here are included the peaks along and adjacent to the watershed between Earl Grey Pass and the S extremity of the Toby snowfield, as well as certain of the isolated summits lying S of Toby Creek between its main stem … Continue reading →

These mountains lie mostly W of the main Purcell watershed between the headwaters of Hamill and Glacier Creeks. They extend S from Jumbo Pass (7480, Jumbo to Glacier Creek) to Earl Grey Pass (7475, Toby to Hamill Creek). That small … Continue reading →

This group includes the peaks which encircle the Lake of the Hanging Glaciers on the E, S, and W. Most of them can be climbed in one day from a camp placed at the N end of the lake although … Continue reading →