[MCR] Lake Louise Falls

Up the Falls today on a very busy Monday. -18C in the parking lot at 0700, high of -15C at noon. Unlike the blizzard on the drive in from Canmore, calm to variable light winds all day at the Lake, with about 10cm in our tracks by the time it had stopped on the way out .  

The pillar is as much of a pegboard as I can ever remember, so not much swinging required through the crux. Just enough ice for screws amongst the usual swiss cheese. LOTS of recent storm snow accumulation to wallow up mid-route on the right side as well as above the route, with several small sluffs down the route as we were topping out. The donkey trail down is in decent shape with a few, steep, hard-packed sections on old debris. Off-trail boot penetration was bottomless, with isolated pockets of soft slabbing.

Carl Johnston, AAG/RG

Yamnuska Mountain Adventures

  

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