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The Canmore Mountain List

The Canmore Mountain List is a passion project Troy Martel and I came up with in 2020. We had ascended a few of the peaks around Canmore together and eventually got to thinking "what if we did everything we can see from here?!" We wanted to make it legit so over the next weeks we scoped out all the peaks we could see from within the official town of Canmore boundary and started compiling the list! Once the list was done it served as a nice mountain outings to do list over the next couple years, but by late 2022 completing the list was my primary goal outside of biathlon. Some of the toughest outings like the Inglismaldie to Peechee Traverse or the Anklebreaker Traverse pushed me past my limits at the time and played a big part in the mountaineer I am today!

Summit photo from the top of Mount Inglismaldie with Mount Girouard and Mount Peechee in the background on a blue sky day.

This map contains every peak on The Canmore Mountain List; every named peak visible from within the official town of Canmore boundary, as well as every unnamed peak with 91m or 300ft of prominece. The Canmore Mountain List idea didn't start off including unnamed peaks but after Troy got more into multi-pitch climbing and less into scrambling / bushwhacking slogs it turned into a personal project of mine and I decided to expand on the idea a bit! The light blue points on the map were outings I had partners for and the dark blue points were solo outings so as you can tell, north of Banff was a lonely endeavor. Although realistically, the majority of the peaks I did north of Banff would be of no interest to someone not attempting to complete The Canmore Mountain List aside from maybe Mystic Peak, Mount Brewster, or Cascade Mountain's main summit unless they're really hurting for something to do or looking to go where not many have set foot before!

Something I definitely wouldn't have expected prior to completing the list is how much more technical some of the niche routes and traverses around Canmore are compared to the Rundle Traverse, which has an infamous and gnarly reputation likely in part to keep the unprepared away because of how accessible it is to start from the easy scramble up the East End of Rundle. On this list you'll find numerous outings that stand on par with the Rundle Traverse in difficulty and a few that surpass it by a good margin. Some of the less done traverses that you've never heard of around Canmore are relatively unknown for a reason!


Summit photo from Wind Mountain featuring Haldan Borglum with sweeping views of the Canadian Rockies and the Spray Valley far below.

Hopefully my reports from completing The Canmore Mountain List can be of some use to you, and for those wanting to get after some of these routes you can go into them with more beta than I had at my disposal! Although I alone completed the list it was a joint effort with Troy Martel to create it and without him, ascending Little Sister would have been all but impossible for me without a guide with my skillset at the time so a massive shout out to him!

For a full breakdown of my completion of the Canmore Mountain List click here.



A climber nearing the top of Little Sister Mountain on exposed and loose rocky ridge.
Little Sister
 An evening photo of Mystic Peak with the southeast face visible.
Mystic Peak
 A photo from the summit of the third peak of Mount Brewster looking south towards the other two peaks.
Brewster Traverse
Looking along the rugged ridgeline of Cascade Mountain during the Cascade Traverse, with the distinct banded limestone layers of the northeast face and the Bow Valley far below.
Cascade Traverse
 A climber stands next to an impressive spire along the Mount Lady MacDonald to Princess Margaret Mountain Traverse.
Lady MacDonald to
Princess Margaret Traverse
 A climber following ridge from Gap Peak on the way to Mount Fable with morning light enhancing the view.
Anklebreaker Traverse
A view looking south from the ridge along the Goatview Peak massif with numerous peaks visible on the horizon.
Goatview Traverse
 A climber at the base of a steep climb on Mount Lawrence Grassi during a traverse of the Ehagay Nakoda massif.
Ehagay Nakoda Traverse
 A climber on an exposed ledge on Mount McGillivray to reach the summit with Skogan North Peak in the background.
Heart to McGillivray Traverse
Climber ascending steep, exposed terrain near the summit of Mount Peechee during the Inglismaldie to Peechee Traverse, with loose rock and serious fall consequence below.
Inglismaldie to Peechee Traverse
 A climber approaching the summit block of Mount Astley from the technical west side during the Astley Traverse.
Astley Traverse
 A climber ascending the main peak of Mount Rundle during the Rundle Traverse.
Rundle Traverse
A climber ascending the crux of the Lougheed Traverse on the second peak with a sizable drop below and a small alpine lake.
Lougheed Traverse
 Looking down the steep snow covered terrain on Wind Mountain during the ascent, with rugged limestone walls and dramatic alpine terrain stretching toward distant peaks.
Wind Mountain

This list is excluding repeats, for example I did Ha Ling long before I did the Ehagay Nakoda Traverse. If you'd like to see when I first summitted some of the more minor peaks around Canmore check out my Canmore Mountain List map above!


- Little Sister, September 17 2023
- Mystic Peak and 2 unnamed peaks east of Mount Ishbel, September 16 2023
- 2 unnamed peaks west of Spectral and Solstice Peak, September 2 2023
- Elaphus Peak and 3 unnamed peaks further north, August 3 2023
- Brewster Traverse, July 26 2023
- unnamed peak southwest of Mount Peechee SW, July 22 2023
- Cascade Traverse (minus the main summit), July 20 2023
- Lady MacDonald to Princess Margaret Traverse plus Nip Peak / Charles Stewart SE2, July 15 2023
- Anklebreaker Traverse (Anklebiter Ridge to Mount Charles Stewart South / Buffalo Point), July 9 2023
- Goatview Traverse, July 1 2023
- Goat Traverse, June 28 2023
- Mount Peechee SW, June 13 2023
- Ehagay Nakoda Traverse, June 4 2023
- Rimwall W2 / Big Rim Ridge, May 30 2023
- Grotto Mountain plus Grable Peak, May 20 2023
- Heart to McGillivray Traverse, May 5 2023
- Inglismaldie to Peechee Traverse, October 16 2022
- Astley Traverse, September 11 2022
- Rundle Traverse, August 17 2022
- Lougheed Traverse plus Windtower, July 24 2022
- The Big Traverse (Wasootch Peak to Mount McDougall), June 19 2022
- Cougar Peak / Aesop Peak / Aesop's Fable, May 26 2022
- Exshaw Mountain plus Engagement Mountain / Biffy Peak, February 13 2022
- Mount Collembola, February 11 2022
- Wind Mountain, June 21 2021
- Bluemat Hill, May 6 2021
- Bald Eagle Peak, Aug 29 2020
- Mount Sparrowhawk, Aug 10 2020
- Middle Sister, Aug 9 2020
- Rimwall, July 19 2020
- The Orphan, June 20 2020
- Big Sister, 2019
- Pigeon Mountain, pre 2018
- Wind Ridge, pre 2018
- Yates Mountain, pre 2017
- Mount Allan, 2016

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