West Kootenay

45 objectives indexed from 7 blogs, 7 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.

B

• Baldy Rocks — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map
• Bluejoint Mountain — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: weakly inferred from where the name is on the map
• Bunch Grass Hill — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: inferred from where the name is on the map

C

• Camel's Hump West — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou
• Cornice Ridge — Bob Spirko, Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Bob Spirko, Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map

D

• Dove Hill — Bob Spirko, Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Bob Spirko, Sonny Bou

F

• Fox Tree Hill — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou

G

• Gimli Peak — Steven Song, Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map
• Gladsheim Peak — Steven Song
  • West Kootenay: set by hand
• Goat Mountain — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou

K

• Kokanee Peak — Steven Song
  • West Kootenay: set by hand
• Kootenay Columbia — Bob Spirko
  • West Kootenay: Bob Spirko
• Kuskanax Mountain — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou

L

• Lightning Strike — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou
• Lost — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou
• Lucifer Peak — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map

M

• Monk Peak — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou
• Mount Attwood — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou
• Mount Brennan — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: weakly inferred from where the name is on the map
• Mount Cowley — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou
• Mount Crawford — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou
• Mount Crowe — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map
• Mount Faith — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou
• Mount Gladstone — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou
• Mount Grohman — Steven Song, Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: set by hand
• Mount John Carter — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou
• Mount Kirkup — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map
• Mount Kitchener — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou
• Mount Lepsoe — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map
• Mount Loki — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou
• Mount Nelson — Steven Song, Golden Scrambles, Sonny Bou, Andrew Nugara, Steep Sheep
  • West Kootenay: Steep Sheep · BC Rockies and the Purcells: Golden Scrambles, Steven Song, Sonny Bou
• Mount Roderick Dhu — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: inferred from where the name is on the map
• Mount Sophia — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou
• Mount Thompson — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou

O

• Observation Mountain — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou
• Old Glory Mountain — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map

S

• Sphinx Mountain — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou
• Stone Mountain — On-Top
  • West Kootenay: weakly inferred from where the name is on the map
• Sunshine High Point — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: set by hand

T

• Tallus Hill — Bob Spirko, Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Bob Spirko, Sonny Bou
• Texas Peak — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou
• Thanksgiving Mountain — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou

W

• White Queen — Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map
• Wood Peak — Steven Song
  • West Kootenay: set by hand

Y

• Ymir Mountain — Steven Song, Sonny Bou
  • West Kootenay: Sonny Bou; inferred from where the name is on the map

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.