Mt Tupper (Rogers Pass BC) - Aug 7, 2001
Jim Frankenfield; snowman@csac.org; 1-877-604-0166
[Climbing and Mountain Recreation Page]
On Aug 7, 2001, following a week-long
trip into the Battle
Range, I climbed Mt Tupper in the Hermit Range by Rogers Pass (British
Columbia). My partners were Michael and Lisa of Calgary who I met in Hermit
Meadows the day before while hiking up to the Sifton-Rogers Col. |
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The Mountain - The left two shots are
from the vicinity of the Sifton-Rogers col, the right one is from the
ridge where the route first meets it. |
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Some Views - The left two show Tupper,
MacDonald and Sir Donald (the highway is between Tupper and MacDonald);
the right shot shows Sir Donald and Mt Bonney |
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Scrambling Up - Michael and Lisa scramble
up the 4th class lower ridge |
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The Upper Parts - Shortly after a sloping
chimney (left) we roped up (center, Michael preparing a belay). On the
right is the summit block, finally! |
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Summit Block - left and right; and
the basin behind Tupper towards Hermit. |
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Coming Down - A bit of scrambling (left),
crossing above an avalanche track (center, berms to guide the flow over
a snowshed are visible), on the right Michael completes a rappel with
Sir Donald in the background |
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Some Rappel Shots - On the right Lisa
rappels with Rogers in the background |
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Us - Me on the Summit with Sir Donald
in the Background (left); Lisa and Michael after the descent; me again
with my old "Euro-Yellow" fleece reflecting the sunset |
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Panoramas - The feature on the digital
camera didn't work quite right this time so two of these are manually
combined in photoshop (thus the discontinuities). |
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