Snow in September

Yes it's true, it did snow in September, and we've got pictures to prove it. We had to climb some 450 meters up to find it, but it was there!

Last Sunday we went for one last hiking trip before things got busy this fall with work and school. EEOR is what the mountain is called, or the East End of Rundle. Rundle is the mountain to the east of Banff, but it is actually a long range, spanning all the way to Canmore. We decided to climb to the most easterly peak, or EEOR. Here are some pictures of our trip.

View up the route to the summit block.

Quick rest, Eatmore snack, and we're ready to tackle the hard part.


View down the mountain from almost the top.

Route up the mountain on a rock shelf. Looks like steps :)


We made it to the top and found some snow!

Checking the guide book to see if we were indeed in the right place. It looked like there was another summit farther down the range, but the ridge between looked a bit scary to traverse.


View across the Bow Valley and Canmore.

Can you see my shadow?

View down the East face to the Canmore water reservoir.


View across to Ha Ling, Lawrence Grassi, and The Three Sisters.


View towards the Spray Lakes corridor.


Kirstin on the summit.


Sitting down for a well deserved lunch break.



Traverse the Rundle Range someday?


The parking lot from the summit.


The summit from the parking lot.

One last note, a year and a week ago we climbed the Middle Sister with Jorgen, and dreamed of climbing the East End of Rundle then. During that trip Jorgen decided the farthest east summit of Rundle was his rock pile, built by himself, one rock at a time. So Jorgen, we can now say that we've climbed your rock pile :)