 Eiffel Peak
- Canadian Rockies
Eiffel Peak is a great scramble to a summit that is centrally located to the Valley of the Ten Peaks.
Start by finding a group of hikers to go along with. These days access to the Larch Valley-Sentinel Pass area is restricted to parties of at least six people. This is to avoid close encounters of the bear kind.
Head for Sentinel Pass, then cross to the obvious ridge leading to Eiffel Peak after the switch backs give way to the upper valley. When on the ridge, the views are fantastic. The day I climbed the peak, the temperature was hot, and the air was hazy. Not the best conditions for seeing faraway summits, but the photographs have a special
quality on days like that.
The ridge is straight forward, with only a small section of boulders to cross, then some moderate scrambling further up when negotiating the white rock band.
The summit views are unbelievable. Nearby Eiffel Tower can be pondered over a precipitous north face. Temple Mountain is deceptively close and to the west The Good Sirs tower.
 ery few
persons, comparatively, know how to
Desire
with sufficient
intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that
intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous
Desire
which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming
desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked
or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for
bread and meat…
Robert
Collier
American Writer, Publisher
Eventually you must come down, sorry about that
people. I sympathize, but everyone must deal with disappointment sometimes, right? Just keep it as a dream for
those rainy days that lay ahead.
Mountain Photography
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Back down the valley
The Tower of Babel is on the right |
 ream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream --a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows --is essentially
poetry.
Michel Leiris
1901-1990, French Anthropologist, Author
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