Mount St. Piran

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After a failed attempt in winter time, I wanted to come back to try this again. The profile of altitude looks funny in the picture but it is accurate. We dived in to the lake about 370 m deep.

We parked at the Lake Louise parking lot. At the entrance of the lot, there was a stuff checking park ticket, so I pretended I was a tourist from Japan and I don't speak English. However Andrea being with me didn't help the situation. Lake Louise being such a tourist place, trails are well maintained and marked. Follow trail signs to Little Beehive. At waypoint "Left 1" there was another trail sign. This sign actually had "To St. Piran" but some reason it was painted over. We got little confused but the approach route, an avalanche gully was in sight and defiantly there was a trail towards so we took the turn. Shortly after we arrived at the bottom of the avalanche gully (page 4). From here the trail zigzagged. Some section of the trail was still snow covered, so eventually we gave up following the trail instead we went straight up.

For descent, we decided to take Kane's descent route. However now that I compare from our route and Kane's route, his route seems to go all the way towards Niblock, instead we aimed north side of Lake Agnes. We descended a boulder field for a while until terrain became little uncertain (page 17). So we went to the left (to east) to another avalanche gully. It was little steep and little route finding required and that is the reason why I rated this advanced (moderate in scramble book). At waypoint "Easy Way" we hit a cliff. The waypoint was where I found an animal trail showing an easy way to get around the cliff (page 18). After this we arrived at Lake Agnes. We changed our appearance with shirt, jeans, sneakers, and afro hair to blend with tourists.