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Mount Temple Attempt | 2008-08-15
Mount Temple
- Location: Banff National Park (Lake Louise)
- Activity: Scrambling
- Height: 3,543 m (11,625 ft)
- Elevation Gain: 1,670 m (5,479 ft)
- Distance: 16.5 km / Round Trip (10.2 mi)
- Avg Steepness: 11.4°
- Estimated Time: 7-10 hrs
- Technicality: Advanced
- Fitness Level: Athlete
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Orange line is the actual track I took which was recorded by my GPS.
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Mount Temple Attempt | 2008-08-15
The third tallest Southern Canadian Rocky Mountain. Impressive looking.
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Mount Temple Attempt | 2008-08-15
Hike trail started from Moraine Lake, near world famous spot, Lake Louise and this is Larch Valley. Pretty. The glacier is called Fay Glacier and all the mountains have names. These are like 10 mountains connected with ridges. Too many mountains I can't identity which is which.
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Mount Temple Attempt | 2008-08-15
This is the other side of Mount Temple. Now it looks possible to hike up. This hiking trail is very popular up to this point. Most people who comes here are all tourists. They hike with blue jeans, sneakers, and no backpack. Not like folks I see in Kananaskis. They are local people with proper gears and experience.
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Mount Temple Attempt | 2008-08-15
Sentinel Pass
- Location: Banff National Park (Lake Louise)
- Activity: Hiking
- Height: 2,611 m (8,567 ft)
- Elevation Gain: 725 m (2,379 ft)
- Distance: 12.8 km / Round Trip (7.9 mi)
- Avg Steepness: 6.4°
- Technicality: Novice
- Fitness Level: Easy
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Locals make fun of Eastern people. Story goes like this. A young student came to West for a summer job. Found himself attracted to the mountains so he decided to hike without any gear or experience and ends up dying. There is a truth to the story. According to the bible, Canada's the worst mountaineering accident happened right here at this mountain with teenage Americans.
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Mount Temple Attempt | 2008-08-15
I see many hiking/scrambling websites use the view.
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Mount Temple Attempt | 2008-08-15
Me. I start feeling sickness by this point. It wasn't altitude sickness, it was stomach squeezing me.
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Mount Temple Attempt | 2008-08-15
We kinda lost at one point and went to wrong way. Kevin was going back to where we came from. Pinnacle Mountain and Eiffel Peak behind.
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Mount Temple Attempt | 2008-08-15
Another good view of the valley and mountains.
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Mount Temple Attempt | 2008-08-15
So many glaciers around here.
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Mount Temple Attempt | 2008-08-15
I found it very interesting that this mountain had 4 different rocks depending on the altitude. There were brown rocks, usual limestone, white stone, and this type of rocks.
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Mount Temple Attempt | 2008-08-15
Well by the time I went over 3200m (10500ft), I was already tired and my stomach didn't get any better. By the time I was at 3350m (11000ft), I had to stop and rest every 30 steps. I was totally exhausted from fighting the sickness. 3492m (11460ft), Kevin decided not to wait and came down from the summit. This is as far as I went that day. Less than 200m in distance (650ft), 50m in altitude (165ft) away from the summit.
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Mount Temple Attempt | 2008-08-15
So Trace and I still have some work to do here, but for Kevin, he can check his to-do list.
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Mount Temple Attempt | 2008-08-15
I was so sick it was hard for me to take pictures. I couldn't catch breath even when I was walking flat part. Yet I had to decent all the way down. That what I call a long day.
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Mount Temple Attempt | 2008-08-15
Trace and we were supposed to meet at the valley but Trace was not found anywhere. Kevin was worried that Trace, the blister master tried to hike the mountain and we didn't see each other, so he hasted to the parking leaving me behind. At this time of the day the popular hiking trail was no longer popular and I was only few here walking very very slowly still breathing hard fighting sickness. Didn't park ranger told us bears were sited 4 times?
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Mount Temple Attempt | 2008-08-15
What kind of dog owner let the fat black dog running around the bush? Bears were around here you know. Wait a minut. It's Kojiro! Basturd blister master's dog!
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