Snow hit the eastern slopes early in the week but slowly lifted to
about 7000 ft on the north aspects, cleared off on the south.
A friend wanted to climb Capital Mountain in the Miette range and
thought "why not"
Approach is via Morris Creek right at the hairpin turn on the Miette
Hotsprings road. We parked at the Ashlar Ridge viewpoint and headed up.
It looks like a long way and it is!, about 4km
We followed the creek for about 100 metres then up and left onto the
rib to look for more open timber. About 4 hours of "nasty" bushwaking
leads to treeline. From there we followed the north ridge easily in
another 2 hours to the summit.
This peak lies in the middle of a long ridge leading from Roche
Miette to Mt Ohagan then down to the hotsprings. It has been
traversed a few times by some Jasper-Hinton locals and takes 2 days.
On the descent we decided to go into the head of Morris creek with
the incoming weather....(don't do it!) The first 2000ft are great and
open scree and grass, then once down into the drainage it
begins.....there are a number of waterfalls than have to be passed.
The bushwhacking is awful. We spent 3.5 hours going 2 km.
Couldn't really see any other options other than the 2 we took yet it
is possible to do Capital Mt either as the traverse or from the Rocky
River side. I think all the peaks in this area would have similar
"approaches from the Miette/Fiddle river side.
Peter Amann
Mountain Guide, ACMG
pamann@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Capital Mt. from Ashlar Viewpoint.jpg
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