{"id":765,"date":"2011-09-04T22:28:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T05:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/?p=765"},"modified":"2018-12-25T22:16:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T05:16:54","slug":"mount-bell-ne-ridge-5-3-aug-262011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/mount-bell-ne-ridge-5-3-aug-262011\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Bell climb scramble NE Ridge 5.3 Aug 26\/2011 Banff Lake Louise quartzite"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mount Bell NE ridge 5.3 Quartzite Banff Lake Louise scramble climb<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mount Bell \u00a0Big step on NEast Ridge 5.3 Quartzite Banff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mount Bell NE ridge – the 5.3 step<\/p><\/div>\n

Successful climb\/scramble of the NE ridge with Wietse and Scott. This is a long day as it took us 13 hours car to car. We took the shortcut direct to the ridge from the Taylor lake trail junction which saved about 1 hour and were on top in about 7 hours including lunches and a stop to bandage up my hand.\u00a0 Small gash (3 stiches) after jamming it into a sharp rock.<\/p>\n

Short 15 min bushwack to open scree slope-\u00a0\u00a0some dirty loose scree\u00a0 in larches.\u00a0 Gained the ridge near start of rock and then scrambled up\u00a0 with one diversion left off the ridge crest and up to the 5.3 slab – pitched out 40 m and then carried rope to next big step.\u00a0 Short roped the rest over, up or around various steps with good leading\/route finding by Scott.\u00a0 Rock is generally solid for any climbing parts but lots of broken crap on ledges.\u00a0 great views.\u00a0 We were passed near the top by\u00a0a solo guy from Canmore.<\/p>\n

Took the scramble route down and then left across to col was loose and crappy or poor sidehilling. Snow down col was soft enough in the heat, around the lakes and then lots of mindnumbing down on the trails.\u00a0 This ridge would be a lot more popular without the approach!<\/p>\n

I was quite glad to complete this given the history with Gary on my first attempt. \u00a0We toasted\u00a0him and dedicated the climb to him at the top.\u00a0\u00a0It is a good climb and he would have enjoyed it when\u00a0he was still capable of doing it.<\/p>\n

Pictures at Bell NE Ridge <\/a>\u00a0 5.3 Aug 26\/2011 – Use full screen slideshow<\/p>\n

Much easier and quicker to shortcut to ridge from Taylor lake junction.<\/p>\n

See Bell NE Ridge pic<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0for perspective.<\/p>\n

Wietses Pics<\/a><\/p>\n

Scott’s pics<\/a><\/p>\n

Previous attempts Bell 2010\u00a0 <\/a>\u00a0 (lightning\/hail\/rain) and Bell\u00a0 2008\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0(accident)<\/p>\n

Note – some Beta pics on Taylor Lake\u00a0 Pass <\/a>\u00a0to Consolation Lake<\/p>\n

and Chickadee to Boom,\u00a0 Boom to O’ Brien\u00a0Lake – Couloir,\u00a0etc.<\/p>\n

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Successful climb\/scramble of the NE ridge with Wietse and Scott. This is a long day as it took us 13 hours car to car. We took the shortcut direct to the ridge from the Taylor lake trail junction which saved … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34,8],"tags":[50,51,16,23,6,41,42,54,37,35,17,38,40],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpine-climb","category-rock-climb","category-scramble","tag-50","tag-51","tag-alpine","tag-banff","tag-climb","tag-climbing","tag-mountaineering","tag-park","tag-ridge","tag-rock","tag-rockies","tag-rope","tag-route"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2375,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/2375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}