Enchainments (Linking together technical climbs or peaks in one push)
Peaks | Start Trailhead | End Trailhead | Vertical Gain, Distance | Time | Who/When | Notes. |
All 54 eleven-thousand foot peaks in the
Canadian Rockies
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Many | Many | A whole lot... | Seven years, 49 days. | Nancy Hansen | Click here for more info. |
Athabasca North Face, Polar Circus, Directissima (Yam) | Icefields Lot | Yam Parking Lot | 3000M? | 20:00 | Will Gadd, Raphael Slawinski, March 29, 2004 | |
Bugaboos Link: NE Ridge of Bugaboo Spire, Route, Krause McKarthy, Cooper/Kor, Becky Chouinard. | Aplebee | Same | Lots | 24:30 | Jon Walsh, Jeff Relph August 4/5 2005 |
Notes here |
Sulphur Mntn, Mt Rundle, Cascade Mntn, Mt Bourgeau. | Various | Various | 17,600 up, 66K across.. | 24 hours | Istvan Hernadi, Kim Megaffin, John Hebron, Eric Karn | 2 August 1998 Car was used to drive between trailheads. |
Edith south, centre and north over cory pass up Cory...down Gargoyle and out edith pass | Fireside | Fireside | ~1800m | 12:00 | Steve Tober | |
Mts Fay and Quandra | One day | Brad and Jerry? | Fay Hut to Fay hut | |||
South ridge of Edith south, centre and north down cory pass to fireside | Fireside | Fireside | ~1500m | 6:00 | Jim Beam and Jack Daniels | |
Fortress, Gusty Peak, Mt. Shark | Chester Lake | Mt. Shark lot | 292M | 13:30 | Vern Dewitt, Dave Stephens | http://www.dave-stephens.com/scrambles/smithdorrien/fortress/fortress.htm |
Hydrophobia, Sorcerer, Wicked Wanda (Laser Kissed Linkup) | ? | ? | 1000m? | 9.30 | Steve Holeczi alone, January 2006 | Did Sorceror, Hydrophobia, and Wicked Wanda by myself yesterday, 9.5 hrs. Sorceror and Hydro are in great shape, very dry but good ice. Wicked Wanda is like a fountain. The pumping nano laser kissed trance mix was definetely key! Steve Holeczi out |
Mt Indefatigable to North summit | 00:50 | Brad Wrobleski and Jerry Auld | Up | |||
Lake Louise Area: Pope's via North Face, Unnamed peak, Colliers Peak, Victoria Traverse | Bivy in valley below Pope's | Abbot Pass | 9k, 1867 vert | 17:00 | Jeff Perron, Jeff Relph | |
Polar Circus, Weeping Pillar, Curtain Call | Icefields Parkway | Same | 1,000M | 13:00 | Gadd and Semple and a lot of cookies, spring 2002 | Car to Car |
Polar Circus, Teardrop, Slipstream | Icefields Parkway | Same | 2,000M | 15:15 | Bruno Sourzac and Rolo Garibotti, 2002 | |
Rundle Ridge Traverse West to East (also in Peaks section). |
Banff Spring golf course | Grassi Lake Parking lot | 17hrs | Benoit Talbot and Yannick Jean | 3 Rappels (on cordelette, pitons(2) and piton(1) )done with a 30m rope, last one a bit too long for the rope. Left Banff at 1am. A climber`s scramble... | |
Rundle Ridge Traverse East to West | Grassi | Banff Springs | 12hrs | Darren Williams, Pierre Champness and Brad Warne | We took no rope, so we did no rappels, we had
to frig around alot to find a way to downclimb the one rappel.
October 2001. Aug 2001. |
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Shooting Gallery, Andromeda Strain (by headlamp), West Shoulder Direct, maybe Skyladder, and the N face of athabasca and some other stuff, click for a link | A lot. | Check the report out, click on the link at left.. | Frank Jordan, STILL ALIVE, not deceased as reported earlier. "The greatest enchainment ever done in the Rockies" -Brad Wrobleski | Hard to know start and end points here, but he went for it. David Dornian report's about what Frank Jourdan did in the Icefields area a few years back... |
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Good Reading: Steve Tober's Story on five peaks in one day Kerr, Kiwetinok, Pollinger, McArthur and Isolated in little Yoho ...14 hours, from Takakaw parking lot to the Stanley Mitchell hut.....about 2400m gain (and the pres and VP the next day and another 1100m or so). Steve wrote about this for the Old Goats...Rick Collier's group.