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Winter Cragging in the Canadian Rockies 1st Edition

Chapter 1 - Exshaw & Kananaskis
The Drive-In: Thinner D6
7 bolts, 18m. Climb up the blocky corner left of Happy Feet (#1) to a weakness in the face using hooks and hard to see side pull. Pulling through the roof aiming for a key hook in the seam. Hard to see holds continue through the upper face with thin feet.
FA: Mark Bramble, 2025

Full Metal Jacket D7
8 bolts, 18m. Left of Thinner follow good hooks up to the roof, then stein pull out the roof to a long reach leftward followed by lower angle terrain above.
FA: Marc-Olivier Belzile, Mark Bramble. October 2023
Zoolander D6
8 bolts, 18m. Left of Full Metal Jacket, make a few easy moves up the slab past the cable, then continue up through a band of overlaps into one of a few broad grooves. Follow bolts to the anchor.
FA: Shaun King. February 2025

Chapter 2 - Grotto Mountain
October 2023 Alcatraz Update
November 2024 El Dorado Update

Chapter 5 - Kootenay
Upper Haffner: CORRECTION Fire Roasted M10+ FA: JD LeBlanc, 2005

Single Pitch Crags - No Guidebook

Kananaskis Country - A Bridge Too Far

The Cat and the Bat M5+
3 bolts, 20m. Climb rock right of A Bridge Too Far to the ice.
FA: Rob Fulton, Lida Frydrychova. February 12, 2023

Field, Yoho and the Western Slope - Beer Climbs

Delirium Tremens M6+
4 bolts, 15m. Located between Carlsberg and Kronenbourg. Climb a tongue of ice up to the roof, stem up the dagger and clip a bolt. A few bolts take you onto the dagger over the roof and up very thin ice. Optional but not at all necessary #0.5 cam before clipping the anchor.
FA: Raphael Slawinski, Grant Stewart. December 22, 2024

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Multipitch and Alpine Routes

Kananaskis Country
Rastapopoulos (M6 WI4R, 100m) - Mount Kidd, AB
The Fist Fight (M6, 180m) - The Fist, AB
Uncertainty Principle (M7+ WI4+R, 95m) - Mount Lougheed, AB

The Ghost & Waiparous
Bad Romance (M7 WI4, 130m) - North Ghost, AB
Blind Date & Orgasmotron (M7+ WI5, 90m & 100m) - North Ghost, AB
Little Fluffy Clouds (M7 WI4, 155m) - Johnson Creek, AB

Bow Valley, Canmore to Castle Junction
Anticipation (M6+ WI3, 400m) - Grotto Mountain, AB
Devil With An Angel Face (M6 WI4, 80m) - Ship’s Prow, AB
Aquaphoria (M5+ WI5, 90m) - Mount Rundle, AB
Liquid Swords (M5+ WI5, 95m) - Lake Minnewanka, AB
Petit Bourgeois (M5 WI4+, 55m) - Mount Bourgeau, AB
Honey Dijon (M6 WI4, 130m) - Mount Bourgeau, AB
Sheepdog Brewery Chimney (M6 WI5 A2, 300m) - Castle Mountain, AB
Start of the Difficulties (M6 WI4+, 70m) - Protection Valley, AB
Mix Fix (M7 WI3+, 150m) - Protection Valley, AB
Full Moon Corner (M6 WI4 R, 400m) - Arnica Lake, AB
Fuzzy Peach Maynard (M3 WI3+, 130m) - Storm Mountain, AB

Lake Louise & Moraine Lake
Play With Fay (WI6, 345m) - Moraine Lake, AB

Field, Yoho and the Western Slope
Blackened (M5 WI4, 45m) - Mount Ogden, BC
Aggravated Turtles (M6 WI5+, 130m) - Mount Field, BC
The Chase Is Better Than The Catch (M8 WI4, 135m) - Mount Stephen, BC
Rasputin Roof (M8+/9- WI5, 50m) - Mount Stephen, BC
Gasoline Alley (M5+ WI4, 160m) - Kicking Horse Canyon, BC

Icefields Parkway
Riders on the Swarm (M6+ WI4, 150m) - Noseeum Mountain, AB
Where the Sidewalk Ends (PD+ M4, 350m) - North Crowfoot Peak, AB
Manu Spartanu (M4 WI5, 220m) & Laugh Like Larry (M4 WI5, 210m) - Vulture Peak, AB
The Hand of God (M7 WI5, 170m) - Mount Murchison, AB
Ferrethawk (M6 WI3+, 160m) - Mount Murchison, AB
Tangled up in Blue (M6 WI5, 130m) - Tangle Ridge, AB