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| Elevation 2050m Height Gain Time to Reach Objective Degree of Difficulty Scenery Date of Most-recent Outing |
This hike turned out to be a missed opportunity to scramble up Mt. Cory. It takes you to the top of a ridge west of the scrambling ascent route. Follow Highway 1 west past the town of Banff. Take the Bow Valley Parkway (1A) turnoff. After 2.0km park at a pull-off area on the north side of the road (GPS reference 51d10m08s N, 115d40m57s W). A recognizable trail heads into forest. Within a few minutes the path trends left (west) on a gentle grade. Continue to contour around the lower slopes until you reach a clearing. Below and to your left are power lines; to your right is the slope leading up to your objective. There are no trails beyond this point, but the way is fairly obvious - you simply make you way up through the remnants of burnt-out forest. At the first rockband up ahead aim for the left end of the step. The view behind you improves as you ascend. The angle picks up from this point on but is quite manageable going up. Be careful coming down as there is often a loose layer on top of harder soil. As you progress successive rockbands are easily scrambled or skirted to the left or right - may variations exist. Once you reach the high-point (GPS reference 51d10m47s N, 115d41m24s W) you'll find cliffs surrounding the broad plateau on three sides. This is the end of the line. The view across the Bow Valley feature the ever-present Mt. Rundle and Sulphur Mt. atop Banff. Directly south is Mt. Howard Douglas. Mt. Bourgeau is to the southwest, and flat-topped Pilot Mt. is to the west. The northern view is of course completely obscured by the rest of Mt. Cory. *GR numbers are references used in topographic maps. The six-digit designation is split into two pairs of three: The first trio of digits reference the vertical (N-S) grid lines while the last 3 digits reference the horizontal (W-E) grid lines. For each 3 digit set the first two numbers are whole numbers, while the last digit is a decimal place number. For the peak named here, GR153311 can be found between the 15 and 16 vertical grid lines and 31 and 32 horizontal grid lines (see below). The object 'B' would have a reference of GR157317.
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