Castle Mountain
- Area:Banff
- Date:Sep 10, 2017
- Time:6 Hours
- DifficultyDifficult
It is a short hike with the great view but challenging. This is a climber's route to get Eisenhower Tower.
We went up like this route.
In the beginning fo the hiking.
Leave the Rockbound Lake Trail when this cairn appears and go to the left.
The trail is getting narrow. There will be no other hikers that had been there on the rockbound lake trail.
After the narrow trail you will go out to the open area.
Going up further. Scrambling begins around here.
There is a very narrow path along the cliff on the way.
The path is like this.
Let's start scramble. The starting point is the most scary since I felt nothing is surrounded.
Doing scramble.
Upper the scramble area.
Eisenhower Tower from the point just finished scramble.
The opposite view from the same point.
A bit more steps to get Eisenhower Tower.
Here is the same level of Eisenhower. It took three and a half hours to get here.
Eisenhower Tower.
Rockbound Lake can be seen.
Bow Valley.
Three groups enjoyed rock climbing on Eisenhower.
The east side of Rockbound Lake. It seemed that autumn leaves were beginning to start.
The south side.
Return the way we came.
On the way down, we met a climbers group. It seemed it was a guide tour.
Unexpectedly I was not afraid of going down more than going up.