Sir Donald NW Ridge, FKT

Sir Donald from the col

Technical Quad FKT with Leif

Morning Run

Planning and training for this run all season!  Psyched to finally do it.

Strategy... I knew the section from Peak 7 to Peak 11 would be slow and probably not hard physically so I pushed pretty hard from the trailhead to the summit of Peak 7.  Then I took it a bit easier and focused on routefinding and not falling off the ridge from there to the summit of Peak 11.  I pushed hard again from the summit of Peak 11 to the Banff Springs Hotel.  

Notes...
-Re-filled water in drainage going up Peak 7.  Looks like the stream will be running for at least another couple weeks as there is still snow higher up.  Very little snow elsewhere on the traverse.
-Rapped twice - once going down from Peak 8 (25m steep rap) and once going down Peak 10 (10m rap somewhere near where the downclimb was supposed to be).  The down climbs from these peaks looked pretty sketchy and I was glad I had brought a rope.  The gear/technique I used for the raps was not standard/recommended and there was no margin for error.
-I climbed up Peak 11 from the P10/P11 col via a 4th class route to the left of the ridge.  I found a picture describing this route somewhere on facebook and it seemed less sketchy than going straight up the ridge.  Turned out to be pretty straighforward and only a bit of choss.

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