Homage to the Spider, III, 5.10a

1st Pitch- 45m- 5.9/ Start up the wonderful solid corner, sometimes climbing in the corner and at times using the face out right. The corner was quite wet when we climbed it and at times it was beneficial to move out of it. These first two pitches are quite strenuous and will make you glad you went without packs if indeed you did leave them behind at the south end of the mountain (risk-reward analysis involved with that decision). There was good tat (2008) for belay around a large bolder on a significant ledge. Homage to the Spider, III, 5.10a, Mount Louis Traverse, Banff National Park, Canadian Rockies, July, 2008