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Mount Yamnuska | 2008-05-10
Mount Yamnuska
- Location: Canmore
- Activity: Scrambling
- Height: 2,240 m (7,349 ft)
- Elevation Gain: 890 m (2,920 ft)
- Distance: 8.5 km / Loop (5.3 mi)
- Avg Steepness: 11.8°
- Estimated Time: 4-6 hrs
- Technicality: Intermediate
- Fitness Level: Moderate
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Blue line is the actual track we took which was recorded by my GPS.
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Mount Yamnuska | 2008-05-10
This is the picture of Mt. Yamnuska. It looks like profile. As you can see from this side, it is a huge wall.
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Mount Yamnuska | 2008-05-10
Little bit cloudy day but temperature was just right. Not too hot, not too cold… at least for people who survived winter here, 5 to 10 °C is comfortable.
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Mount Yamnuska | 2008-05-10
May is still early enough to see a lot of snow, especially this day because last two days, mountains got fresh snow dumped.
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Mount Yamnuska | 2008-05-10
The opposite side of mountain, the other side which I described profile. This side it is hikable.
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Mount Yamnuska | 2008-05-10
We merged with another group. Since there was much snow, we let them go first and followed their tracks. Hehehe
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Mount Yamnuska | 2008-05-10
See, how deep it is. I wasn't even standing on the bottom.
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Mount Yamnuska | 2008-05-10
I love when snow get involved because it makes it so much fun, but I never had hiked when there is as much fresh snow as this day. Felt like I was exploring.
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Mount Yamnuska | 2008-05-10
This is Kevin. Not the NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick. He is Trace's buddy and he is an experienced hiker.
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Mount Yamnuska | 2008-05-10
See it is a wall. Kevin says people come here to rock climb.
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Mount Yamnuska | 2008-05-10
Few months ago a dumb Calgarian tried to kill himself by jumping off from two floor build… I have two tips for him. If you really want to die, don't jump from two floor building. Jump from higher place like here. Secondly if you really really want to die, don't do it in city because public and cops will try to stop you. Again go some where like here where nobody will stop you.
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Mount Yamnuska | 2008-05-10
This is about 2000 m high.
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Mount Yamnuska | 2008-05-10
It's so refreshing to get out of city and feel mother nature.
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Mount Yamnuska | 2008-05-10
This was the cable we supposed to hand on to go farther, but as you can see snow was so deep it was even covered in the snow. This cable was supposed to be 4 feet above footing. We called the day here.
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Mount Yamnuska | 2008-05-10
We went as far as we could safely with our skill level and equipments.
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Mount Yamnuska | 2008-05-10
Oh well maybe next time we will get to the top
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Mount Yamnuska | 2008-05-10
There is always funny one in every party. Who's this clown?
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Mount Yamnuska | 2008-05-10
After the hike we headed to Crowsnest Pass. On the way there we came across this very unique cloud.
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