On a sunny and beautiful cool spring Monday of a long weekend, I dragged Anita out of bed at 7:00am to force her up Mt. Lawrence Grassi in the Canmore area. The total elevation gain was 945m, with very little switchbacking, making for a tiring scramble straight up unrelenting steeps through the trees, then onto the open rock, before hitting the snowcapped summit. Only five others were on the trail, so by the time we summited, we had the entire peak and its gorgeous views to ourselves. I'm not gonna lie, there also exists a video of Anita doing a spastic dance to Taylor Swift's
Shake It Off at the summit. But she won't let me post it. :(
Anita admires the beauty of the Three Sisters.
By this point, we still had a good hour and a half hike along a steep ridge to reach the summit.
That's me on the South Summit. Clearly, I need a red jacket so that I show up better in photos.
Anita declares triumphant victory on the East Summit.
And here you can see the summit of Ha Ling, and the East End of Rundle. Canmore would be directly to the right of this shot.
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