Castle Mountain - West Face
Castle Mountain - West Face
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Description
One of the most unique mountains featured here, Castle Mountain is a 5km long wall overlooking the Transcanada Highway just before Lake Louise. With better rock than elsewhere in the Canadian Rockies, short approaches, a cute little hut from the Alpine Club of Canada and fairly moderate climbing (if you don't count Sonnie Trotter's 5.14 route, Castles in the Sky!), it should be no surprise that this is one of the more popular venues for alpine rock climbing in the region.
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Route List
1: Lookout Buttress 5.9, Auger, Congdon, 1986
2: Iron Donkeys., 5.10c, Ballard, Learn, Walsh, 2004
3: Another Little Sweatbox, 5.10c, MacLeod, Sampson, 2001
4: Sickle Ridge, 5.5, Crocker, Gude, 1968
5: God Lives, 5.6, Dickinson, Reisenhofer, Schaller, 2009
6: Seventh Buttress, 5.5, Vockeroth et al., 1975
7: The Pillsbury Dough Boys Go on Holidays, 5.9, Haden, Stirling, Stoliker, 1993
8: Forgiven, 5.9, Campbell, Stoliker, 1994
9: Rim Job, 5.11a, Haberl, Jagger, 1993
10: Bass Buttress, 5.6, Farrand, Greenwood, 1968
11: Kraut Pinnacle, 5.6, McKeith, Sterner, 1971
12: Bass Buttress, Direct Start, 5.7, Calvert, McKeith, 1972
13: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t, 5.10, Gross, Koffmann, Quinn, 1985
14: Catch-22, 5.9, Greenwood, Jones, 1971
15: Papillon, 5.7, Jones, Kallen, 1980
16: Beckey-Marts Route, 5.?, Beckey, Marts, 1963
17: Sitsika Nation, 5.9, Haden, Stoliker, 1995
18: Happy Corner, 5.10a, Everett, Reisenhofer, 1996
19: Labour Day Buttress, 5.10c, Arbic, Auger, 1990
20: Tous Ensemble, 5.9, Homer, Jones, Rogan, Wood, 1972/Arbic, Auger, 1986
21: Ultra-Brewers, 5.9, Auger, Sheehan, White, 1987
22: Velcro Grip, 5.9, Beardmore, Holeczi, 1999
23: Brewer Buttress, 5.7, Brewer, Irwin, 1961
24: Cadot Buttress, 5.7, Boisselle, Cadot, 1975
25: North Ridge of Eisenhower Tower, 5.6, Boss, Wallace, 1971
26: Grassi Route, 5.5, Cerutti, Grassi, 1926/Newhall, Zwicky, 1927
27: Southwest Face Direct, 5.7, Lofthouse, Peyer, 1967
28: Southwest Buttress, 5.7, Lopeteki, Scott, 1965
29: Hickson Route, 5.6, Feuz, Hickson, 1926
30: Naeve Route, 5.6, Greer, Naeve, 1929
31: Castles in the Sky, 5.14a, Trotter et al., 2013
32: The Moat, 5.11+, Pullan, Trotter, 2015
33: Sam’s Gift, 5.13a, Eastman, Lambert, 2014
34: Traditional, 5.6, Campbell, Everett, 1996
Updates
May 15, 2024: Graphic design update
