East End of Mount Rundle


			Canadian Rockies Scrambles and Panoramas by T. L. Helmer

East End of Mount Rundle - Canadian Rockies


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	Top: The East end of Mount Rundle Bottom: The route goes up the large sloping mountain face in the center

This is an easy scramble except for one rock band near the summit.

Let me back up here before I jump into this.

This peak is one of a small handful of summits for which I had no photos for this web site, so I went back in the early part of the summer of 2002 to click away to my heart's content.

My first trip was on the first day of spring in 2000 and can remember slipping then falling on hard packed snow and starting to slide. My ice axe was sliding uselessly along with me and just as I was thinking "Hey shouldn't I be self arresting just about now" I ran into some soft snow.

Then I stopped just short of a rocky run out ..... Whew!

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The canal below Ha Ling Peak and Mount Lawrence Grassi		The view to the south The Goat Range is at the center with Mount Nestor at it's most southerly point. See Spencer Wynn's painting below.

Now we jump forward to 2002.

I decided to test my speed on this occasion, to see how my efforts to increase my physical performance have worked. I made the summit in 1:28 and was back at the parking lot in 2:28. I could improve this but I think that is fairly fast. That's 900 meters vertical up, 900 down.

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Looking north along the spine of Mount Rundle The farthest summit is not the main summit, it is obscured from view		The first summit is shown on the left. Canmore is visible in the valley bottom

This route lends itself to speedy accents.

Date	Name	Round Trip Time
Aug 6	Tim Helmer	2:28

Happy trials and fibrillations.

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