Echo Canyon Rock Climbing

Park on Indian Flats Road (51°04'34.1"N 115°18'39.8"W) below the Canmore Alpine Hostel / Alpine Club of Canada.

Walk up the road and watch for a trail on your right with a sign for Grotto Mountain (Grotto Mountain Trailhead). Take this trail.

1. Follow the trail uphill and take your first right turn - this is off a sidewalk of a trail onto a spur that goes slightly downhill (~150 m)
2. Follow the trail down into the ravine for until you come to a T intersection, turn right. (~75 m)
3. Walk along the trail until it enters a creek bed. (~700 m) 
4. Head up the creek bed (left) on a poorly defined if not non-existent trail. (~50 m)
5. Watch for a trail offshoot on the right side of the creek bed - you are looking for the offshoot that dodges a tree and then parallels the creek bed. Take this and follow it up stream, passing straight through an intersection with a bike trail. (~100 m)
6. The trail makes a 90 degree turn to the right and goes uphill, away from the creek. Note, this is not an intersection, but there is a dog trail that goes almost immediately into the creek bed. Head uphill and turn your brain off.
7. Follow the trail until you hit a fork with a sign - go right for The Notch and left for everything else (Couples Therapy, Hideaway, Echo Cave, The Lookout, Bellavista, Coliseum, Tall Story).

The Notch - Another half hour of switch backs until you the memorial plaque and canyon overlook. Take the scree downhill.

Everything Else - Follow the trail down into the creek bed (mostly flat, drops ~20 m over a couple hundred meters horizontal), scrambling down a small rock step with some tat, and then another rock step with a chain on your way. Head up the creek bed.

After a few hundred meters you'll see a big, blocky boulder on the left side of the creek. Up above this, on the left, is an orange and grey wall, this is the Hideaway. Look for the trail that climbs up out of the creek bed a bit upstream from the boulder towards the Hideaway, take this for the Hideaway, Echo Cave, the Lookout and Bellavista. 

For Coliseum and Tall Story, stay in the creek bed and continue up stream. Watch for the trail that climbs up out of the creek on the left ~50 m after the steps for Coliseum. For Tall Story, continue up the creek after the Coliseum offshoot and watch for a trail that weaves up the short, junky cliff band on the right.

Note: Couples Therapy is the first wall up on your right, before the choke (10 minutes before the Hideaway / Coliseum branch point) - watch for a trail that heads up through the forest towards the looming grey wall.