Sulphur Mountain - A Banff Gem

Overlooking Banff, Sulphur Mountain is often overlooked as a scrambling destination mainly due to the fact that you can take a gondola to the Observatory 700m above the townsite.  Up until a few days before this outing, I thought that Sanson Peak was actually the summit and the hike included a boardwalk and stairs. 

As I found out, this is not the case, in fact Sulphur Mountain is a 4km long mountain ridge and Sanson Peak is only one of 4 Peaks.  The true summit lies about 2.5km southwest of the Observatory and the trail provides some safe and fun scrambling along with a faily easy hike that I think can be done year long.


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Ha Ling - A Windy Affair

This is likely my last post about Ha Ling as you can only write so much about a trip that is esentially a difficult hike and I have covered both winter and summer ascents.

The nice thing about Ha Ling is that when many other peaks are out of season, socked in by weather or in just plain dangerous conditions, this peak is almost always summitable. In other words, this is considered an all-year summit. Located directly behind Canmore to the west, this summit is a good half-day trip and one of the best places to test people's endurance and hiking skills. We decided to do Ha Ling after we checked out the weather forecast that morning and saw that we were in for snow and high winds.

Trips up Ha Ling (which is mainly a hiking trail) are hardly eventful usually the hardest part is finding your way though the throngs of people in the summer. Winter however has a tendency to throw wrenches into what are otherwise uneventful ascents.

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