Wasootch Peak

On May 6, we summited Wasootch Peak, bringing my total so far this year to four!  It was a really fun scramble with a variety of terrain.  We went up through forest, sometimes very steep and other times across plateaus, we hiked up and over or around some big rocky formations and towards the top, scree and slab.  The final summit was a short scramble up a little chimney onto a rocky platorm and across a narrow ridge to where the summit register was nestled in some rocks.   This was the first summit register we signed in a long time, maybe since Willingdon in 2018.

This was the longest and highest summit so far this year and the first one that really required a few climbing moves with hands on rock.

The trail starts on Highway 40 in Kananaskis not far from the turn off to Nakiska Ski Resort.