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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
Lineham Creek Peaks
- Location: Kananaskis Country (South)
- Activity: Scrambling
- Height: 2,775 m (9,105 ft)
- Elevation Gain: 1,590 m (5,217 ft)
- Distance: 16.1 km / Loop (10.0 mi)
- Avg Steepness: 11.2°
- Estimated Time: 8-11 hrs
- Technicality: Expert.3c
- Fitness Level: Athlete
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Red line is the actual track I took up to where I went which was recorded by my GPS. 1st peak (GR616953) is intermediate, 2nd peak (GR618951) is intermediate, 3rd peak (GR623946) is advanced, and 4th peak (GR628936) is expert.4 with climber's scramble.
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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
4 peaks as seen in the picture.
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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
Wil on a hump on the way to the 1st peak.
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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
Mountains in Highwood in Kananaskis.
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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
At 1st peak. Mark and Ali surveying the area. 2nd peak is really close and not much elevation loss or gain. Should be able to get there in 15 min.
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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
I think this is on the way to 3rd peak already. Ridge get narrower and bit of scrambling.
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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
Looking back 2nd peak. 1st peak is behind 2nd.
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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
View from the top of 3rd peak.
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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
On the way to the 4th peak. Ali over a small pinnacle.
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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
Ridge between 3rd and 4th peaks requires exposed scrambles (both up and down climb).
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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
Different angle of the previous down climb picture.
(Photo By Ali Shariat)
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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
Nugara's scramble book explains somewhere between 3rd and 4th peak, need to get off from ridge and go down and backup again. I am not sure where it is. We did got off from ridge at some point and went below rock slab, but didn't look it was necessary, in fact, Ali kept walking on the ridge. However he said there was a rough place.
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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
Ali was supposed to go ahead and tell us how the ridge looks like. Instead he kept going without telling us. We waited for him for 10 minutes. We couldn't see him or hear him, so finally we decided to go down the ridge then backed up on the ridge again. Then we saw a dark dot on a huge rock slab... It was Ali. I think where he is, is the crux.
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Mark challenging the crux.
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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
Me coming up on the crux.
(Photo By Mark Evans)
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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
Mark and I coming up the ridge to the 4th summit. Mouse over to see zoom image. This is typical scramble after the crux.
(Photo By Ali Shariat)
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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
Mark preparing for more scrambles on the narrow ridge.
(Photo By Ali Shariat)
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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
Lineham Creek Peaks turned out to be one of the most difficult mountain I have done. It is exposed, ridge is sharp and narrow, and require climber's scramble on rock slab. I rate this one Mount Smuts class.
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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
See how sharp and exposed.
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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
Finally we got a break… There is nothing much from here to the summit.
(Photo By Ali Shariat)
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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
Team Colorful on the summit!!
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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
We took a scree to descent. Panorama of the 3rd-4th ridge.
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Lineham Creek Peaks | 2009-09-12
The scree was very hard and unpleasant. No scree run here.
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