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Canadian Rockies Ice Climbs

 
Canadian Rockies Ice Climbs

Page Type: Area/Range

Location: Alberta/British Columbia, Canada, North America

Activities: Ice Climbing

Season: Winter

 

Page By: Dow Williams

Created/Edited: Oct 3, 2007 / Nov 9, 2010

Object ID: 343761

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Overview

I mostly contribute raw beta route pages and have avoided maintaining any kind of group page (i.e. Banff National Park, etc.) at Summitpost. However, after a considerable amount of inquires, I have assembled Summitpost’s collection of Canadian Rockies ice climbs so that members have an easy reference guide to “first hand” ice climbing experience regarding their winter travel plans to the region. The Canadian Rockies and more specifically the Bow Valley (Canmore) is truly centered regarding the best waterfall ice climbing anywhere in the world.

Listing routes with no first hand experience available is not what this page is about. Rather the listing involves “first hand accounts only” of waterfall ice routes in the Canadian Rockies. The routes will be listed and maintained via their respective “areas” (i.e. The Ghost). The areas will be listed in descending order of East to West. The 2nd order will be via difficulty. I can assure you that this listing only scratches the surface of what is available come January through April up and down the central Canadian Rockies. I personally attempt to climb 30 WI routes per winter and still have plenty more to experience.

The Ghost

Fearful Symmetry, WI 6X
 

South Ghost

Orient Point

The Joker, III, WI 3

Candlestick Maker, IV, WI 5

Planter’s Valley

Weathering Heights, III, WI 4

Peanut Gallery, III, WI 4

Devil’s Gap

Rainbow-Serpent, III, WI 6

Fearful Symmetry-III, WI 6X

Malignant Mushroom-II, WI 5

Aquarius, III, WI 4

Green Angel, III, WI 4

Sunshine, II, WI 3

North Ghost

GBU (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly), II, WI 4-5+

GBU Mixed

Indifferent, II, WI 3

Valley of the Birds

Eagle, III, WI 5

Yellow Bird, III, WI 4+

Seagull, III, WI 4

Beyond Valley of the Birds

Unforgiven, III, WI 3

Devil’s Punchbowl, IV, WI 4

Beowulf, III, WI 4

Fang and Fist, V, WI 5

Kananaskis

Whiteman Falls, WI 6
 

Opal Creek

Whiteman Falls, IV, WI 6

Mount Kid

A Bridge Too Far, IV, WI 4+

Kid Falls, IV, WI 4

Waterton

Experts Choice, WI 6
 


Quick and Dirty, II, WI 4

Le Pilier des Putains, II, WI 6

French Kiss, II, WI 3

Experts Choice, III, WI 6

Canmore

Hers, II, WI 4
 

Hers, II, WI 4

Grotto Falls, II, WI 3

Banff

Professor Falls, WI 4
 


Johnston Canyon, WI 3-5

Bourgeau Left-Hand, IV, WI 5

Bourgeau Right-Hand, IV, WI 4R

Professor Falls, III, WI 4

Cascade Falls, III, WI 3

Rogans Gully, III, WI 3

Lake Louise

Louise Falls
 

Louise Falls, III, WI 4

Kootenay

Marble Canyon, II, WI 3-5
 

Marble Canyon, II, WI 3-5+



Field

Beer Routes

Guinness Gully, WI 4
 

Carlsberg Column, III, WI 5

Guinness Gully, II, WI 4

Guinness Stout, II, WI 4

Icefield Parkway

Murchison Falls, III, WI 4+
 

Bow Falls, III, WI 4

Mount Murchison

Murchison Falls, III, WI 4+

Mount Wilson

Wilson Major, III, WI 4

Cirrus Mountain

Polar Circus, V, WI 5

Weeping Wall, WI 3- 6

Snivelling Gully II, WI 3

Beauty Creek

Shades of Beauty, III, WI 4

Rick Blak Memorial Route, III, WI 5

Golden

Kicking Horse Canyon

Pretty Nuts, II, WI 4
 

Pretty Nuts, II, WI 4

Images

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""You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.""   --Rene Daumal   

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