 Mount
Temple
- Canadian Rockies
This was my third
time up Mt. Temple and I thought it was easier that I remembered.
I took a different
line through the upper rock band than the first two times. We climbed it on the left side and it was easy hands on
scrambling.
On the lower rock band, an orange formation, I traversed out
onto the face to the second gully. Once above the orange band, I
stepped over a basket ball sized rock that proceeded to roll. Slowly
at first, then faster.
The wretched rock began to break up as it blasted
through the area
that we had just climbed through.
I was very angry at
myself and I yelled ROCK, ROCK, ROCK!
Ann came to the conclusion
that the people behind us had not yet made the band. Good
thing. It could have seriously hurt or killed.
On the way down we took
the far right gully in the orange band and it's much safer; it's
not on the face and in a fall line from above.
When we reached the
other lower band (dark rock), one of us was just about to drop down
into the gully when a large rock came crashing down the middle. The dude
above us yelled out to the party above to stop and let us get
out of the way.
Temple is dangerous
because of the loose rock and huge numbers of people. Well enough
doom and gloom, have fun but be very careful of the rocks and
people!!
After, we went to
Banff for dinner. The restaurant in Banff was a bit pricey but the
food and atmosphere were excellent.
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These photos (below) were
from my first trip up Mount Temple in July of 1987
with one of my best friends Tom Seto. Tom in fact loaned me the
money to buy the boots to climb this mountain but I could probably
have survived in running shoes.
Tom has been to
Mount Robson
with me as well as many other peaks such as
Ha-Ling,
Mount Nestor and
Mount Ball.
Thanks Tom!
 f
you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible,
summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow
path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a
trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
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