Mount Galwey from the abutting ridge.
Mount
Galwey This is the best scramble I've done so far in Waterton (I have yet to do Mount Crandell via Bear's Hump, however). Although it doesn't sport the views of, say, Hawkins Horseshoe, Mount Galwey offers some good hands-on climbing. The first time I climbed it, I vowed to return with a camera. And so I did. Oddly, the I found the crux -- the traverse -- much easier years ago when I was less experienced. Assuming I'm no less confident with scrambling, possibly the cliff band has degraded over the years, perhaps from use, and the ledges are now smaller. But like my first ascent, I had trouble finding the way up from the window. The "path of the least resistance" is actually a chimney left of the window. |
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Mount Galwey from the abutting ridge.
On Mount Galwey looking back at the ridge, Mount Crandell is on the left.
After angling up the scree slope the south peak comes into view.
Near the top of the gully where it narrows. Note the yellow lichen and the
mushroom rock.
Looking east at Bellevue Hill
The
crux: traversing on small ledges to the window.
Looking back at the traverse from below the window.
Dinah scrambles up to the window
I reach the window.
Left of the window, we ascended
a chimney to the summit.
Coming down from the summit.
View from the top with Mount Crandell as the centerpiece.
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