Rundlehorn climb
May 5, 2018
Climbing with Dan.
Rundlehorn is a very popular 11 pitch, 5.5 sport climb on
the north end of Mount Rundle. I had been thinking about this route for some time
and fortunately Dan was keen to join me – “always take someone better than you”,
has been my technical climbing mantra!
Inadvertently
we scrambled the first 5 pitches. The rock
was good and most of the pitches were climbed ropeless with relative
ease. Once
the roped climbing started, we alternated leads, though later in the
climb, I turned
them over exclusively to Dan. The climbing was enjoyable and
straightforward throughout and views over the Banff area were
fantastic. We rapped down and that’s all she wrote! An excellent day
out.
After scrambling up a few pitches we are near the start of the climbing
Tunnel Mountain (left) and iconic Cascade Mountain
Roped climbing from here to the end. Dan is up there somewhere.
Banff also has some iconic human constructions - The Banff Springs Hotel
Near the top of the route
Dan rappeling
View to the north
Tunnel Mountain
Mount Alymer
More rappeling
Dan rapped this pitch first
Close-up of Tunnel
Close-up of Cascade
We did rap the lower pitches instead of scrambling down them
Good representation of the angle of the terrain for the first 5 pitches
The End
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