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Published by vdewit on April 30th, 2009
Trip Details
Trip Activity: 
Scramble
Attained Summit?: 
Yes
Location: 
Kananaskis Country
Trip Date: 
September 26, 2004
Summit Elevation: 
2,935m
Summit Elevation (ft): 
9,630ft
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Interesting Facts: 
(info from peakfinder.com) Named in 1922. HMS Glasgow was a battle cruiser which fought in the Battle of the Falkland Islands during WW I. Official name. Other names Pyramid, The First ascended in 1949 by Arnold Choquette.    
Related Trips: 
Banded Peak
Cornwall, Mount
Outlaw Peak
Other Trip Reports: 
http://www.freewebtown.com/ssbou/ssbou2004/glasgowbanded.html

Trip Report

On a beautiful September day (26th) Sonny and I headed out to the Elbow Valley to do the Glasgow to Banded Traverse. We intended to leave our bikes at the Glasgow trailhead and then proceed to summit Glasgow, Cornwall, Outlaw and Banded before heading back out via a long valley and walking back up the Little Elbow trail to our bikes.

The plan worked fabulously, the only wrinkles coming on the way out. (You can read about that on the Banded page!)

So first we had to get up Mount Glasgow. We promptly ended up on the wrong side of the drainage. We detoured around a ledge in the stream and ended up trying to negotiate the right-hand side ridge. We soon realized that this was no fun and soon entered the creekbed again. From there on the only real problem was the mental game as we struggled up the scree slopes to the final summit block of Glasgow. For some reason I wasn't feeling that great and could only think that this was only the beginning...

Once I got a bit higher I started feeling better and soon the sun came out and the world looked like a much better place! Sonny joined me at the summit and we both looked at eachother and then at the remaining three summits and someone said, "Who's idea was this again?!". We took the obligatory pictures and headed down to the col between Glasgow and Cornwall.

There was no real difficulties on the way down Glasgow, only some short cliff bands and some tilted, rubbly slabs - I would say an easy moderate scramble. Once at the col we have some gorgeous views up Cornwall and back at Glasgow and then it was time to struggle up another summit...