Banff National Park

See the Mount Baker trip report for details.

On Thursday, March 12 2009 Bill Kerr, Wietse Bylsma, Kevin Papke and I set out to clear Kev's head after a personal loss, the manner of clearing being a nice back country ski up some Wapta Peak. It's been almost 2 years since I was last on the Wapta since I didn't get up there at all in 2008 for some reason.

This is probably the easiest summit I've attained on my list so far. I did it early on Saturday morning with my son and didn't even bother taking photos - besides a few summit shots on my iPhone which I won't bother posting here.

After ascending Mount Ball and Beatrice Peak the previous day, we awoke to clear skies on Sunday morning, August 15 2010 ready to tackle Stanley Peak.

As part of our Mount Olive trip to the Wapta on February 11 2006, we thought we'd give St. Nicholas Peak a shot at the same time while we were all the way up there anyway.

Just as I was lamenting the fact that the gorgeous fall weather was sure to end without me taking advantage of it my email dinged with a message from the crazy Pol - Raf. He was asking me if I would be interested in scrambling up Mount Sarbach. Yep! I would be very interested! Arrangements were hastily made.

Nothing to this one. Do it as part of a trip up Fairview Mountain and get two peaks in one day. It only took me 23 minutes to go up, take pictures and descend back to Saddleback Pass so it's worth doing. Good views of the Bow Valley and Castle Mountain.

Trip Report

On April 15, 2012 I was joined by Kev Papke and Jason Wilcox for a ski ascent of Ramp Peak in Banff National Park, just to the east of highway 93 up the creek near the Mosquito Creek hostel.