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David Thompson Country and the Bighorn

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Trip reports and GPS traces by objective for Abraham Lake, Nordegg, the Siffleur, White Goat, and the Bighorn Backcountry.

132 objectives indexed from 13 blogs, 53 of them with reports from more than one.

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Each entry links every trip report, video, or GPS trace the indexed blogs published for that objective. Hover a link to see the report’s own title, which is how combined trips and traverses show what else they cover.

Where an objective is on one of the four tick-lists, that is marked after the links: Kane and Nugara for scrambles and Don’t Waste Your Time for hikes, each carrying the book’s own grade, and the 11,000ers carrying the peak’s elevation. None of the three books is published online, and the 11,000ers is not a book at all, so every mark links to Adam Laycock’s page for that objective, which is the best canonical reference there is for one. Where there is a book, the route description is in it.

The line under each entry says who puts it where. Where the sources agree, that is one region with several names. Where they disagree, the objective is listed on every region page named, and the line links the others: the blogs file Bow Peak under both Banff and the Icefields Parkway, so it is on both pages.

A region marked inferred is not stated by any blog. It was worked out from where the blogs place the objectives around it: those climbed in the same trip, those a report links to, those near its trailhead, or those near where its name is on the map. Checked against objectives the blogs do place, these are right about nine times in ten, so treat one as a pointer rather than a fact. One marked weakly inferred rests on thinner or split evidence — a single linked report, a trailhead between two regions — and is only used where nothing else places the objective, so it may be listed under each region it could be in. Place-name positions are from the Canadian Geographical Names Database, under the Open Government Licence – Canada, and south of the border from the USGS Geographic Names Information System.

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  • 33 Hours up the Ram River (Ram Range) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion

A

  • Abraham Mountain (First Range) — Explor8ion, Golden Scrambles
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion, Golden Scrambles
  • Abraham, Little (First Range) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion
  • Abstruse Peak (Clearwater Ranges) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion
  • Afternoon Peak (Cloister Mountains) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion
  • Aires Peak (Ram Range) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion
  • Allstones Lake and Ridge — Annie Ouellet
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Annie Ouellet
  • Allstones Peak (First Range) — Explor8ion, Golden Scrambles
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion, Golden Scrambles
  • Allstones Ridge (First Range) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion
  • Ardennes Peak — Golden Scrambles
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Golden Scrambles; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • August Peak — Andrew Nugara
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: weakly inferred from 4 of the 5 placed Andrew Nugara reports it links to · Icefields Parkway and the Columbia Icefield: weakly inferred from 5 of the 5 placed Andrew Nugara reports it links to

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C

D

  • Dodo Peak (Ram Range) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion
  • Dormouse Peak (Ram Range) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion

E

F

  • Falls Lookout (Clearwater Ranges) — Explor8ion, Spectacular Mountains
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion, Spectacular Mountains
  • Finch (Clearwater Ranges) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion

G

  • Gates of the David Thompson (Cline Range) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion

H

  • Hangman Peak (First Range) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion
  • Hector's Peak (Cline Range) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion
  • Hummingbird Ridge (Clearwater Ranges) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion

I

  • In the Footsteps of Sergeant Kowalski (Clearwater Ranges) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion

J

  • Job Lake Excursions (First Range) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion

K

  • Kink Peak — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion

L

  • Labyrinth Mountain (Clearwater Ranges) — Explor8ion, Golden Scrambles, Sonny Bou, Spectacular Mountains
  • Landslide Peak (Cline Range) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion
  • Landslide Ridge (Cline Range) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion
  • Largehorn Peak — Spectacular Mountains
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Spectacular Mountains
  • Limestone Mountain (Clearwater Ranges) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion
  • Lion Peak — Steven Song, Golden Scrambles
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Golden Scrambles, Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Lioness Peak — Steven Song, Golden Scrambles
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Golden Scrambles, Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Littlehorn (First Range) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion
  • Lonely Peak (Cloister Mountains) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion
  • Lost Guide Peak (Clearwater Ranges) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion

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N

O

  • Obstruction Mountain (First Range) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion
  • Old Baldy (Clearwater Ranges) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion
  • Onion Peak (Clearwater Ranges) — Explor8ion, Spectacular Mountains
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion, Spectacular Mountains
  • Oval Peak (Cloister Mountains) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion

P

Q

  • Quixote Peak (First Range) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion

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T

  • Tessa Peak (Cline Range) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion
  • The Buckle — Andrew Nugara
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: inferred from 2 of the 2 placed Andrew Nugara reports it links to
  • The North Towers of Mount Saskatchewan — Andrew Nugara
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: weakly inferred from 1 of the 1 placed Andrew Nugara report it links to · Icefields Parkway and the Columbia Icefield: weakly inferred from 1 of the 1 placed Andrew Nugara report it links to
  • Tuff Puff (Cline Range) — Bob Spirko, Explor8ion, Steven Song
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion, Bob Spirko, Steven Song
  • Two O'Clock Peak (Cline Range) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion
  • Two O'Clock Ridge (Cline Range) — Explor8ion, Sonny Bou
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion, Sonny Bou

V

  • Vision Quest — Bob Spirko, Annie Ouellet
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Bob Spirko
  • Vision Quest Ridge (First Range) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion

W

  • Wandering the White Goat Wilderness (Cloister Mountains) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion
  • Whelk Peak (Ram Range) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion
  • Whirlpool Ridge (Cline Range) — Bob Spirko, Explor8ion, Andrew Nugara
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion, Bob Spirko
  • Whitegoat Peaks II — Steven Song
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Steven Song
  • Willingdon South Tower (Clearwater Ranges) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion
  • Willson Peak (Clearwater Ranges) — Explor8ion, Spectacular Mountains
  • Windy point and Buckle — Bill Kerr
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Bill Kerr
  • Windy Point Ridge (First Range) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion
  • Wingnut (Ram Range) — Explor8ion
    • David Thompson Country and the Bighorn: Explor8ion

Reports are the authors’ own accounts of one day in particular conditions, not route descriptions that stay true. Check current conditions and carry the judgement the terrain needs.

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