Looking back at Glenn as I began the leftward traverse at about 2/3 height.

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Looking back at Glenn as I began the leftward traverse at about 2/3 height.

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Mt Temple Greenwood-Jones topo from Parks Canada Visitor Safety. Pitch lengths are approximate. Best combined with other descriptions and photos.

The approximate line of ascent.

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Hans Bauck

Jun 25, 2012

“Looking back at Glenn as I began the leftward traverse at about 2/3 height.”

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The final snow crest on the East Ridge. This is where Greenwood-Jones intersects the East Ridge route.

Sketchy traverse below loose chossy wall, just before final headwall.

Chris just after the 5.10 traverse move on headwall Pitch 3. This move is protected by a piton high and left. There are also a few pitons n the face to protect this section. The exposure is great!

Nearing the summit along the final section of the East Ridge.

Mt Temple Greenwood-Jones topo from Parks Canada Visitor Safety. Pitch lengths are approximate. Best combined with other descriptions and photos.

Looking back at Glenn as I began the leftward traverse at about 2/3 height.

The approximate line of ascent.

Looking down the limestone slab on Headwall Pitch 3.

The route description says to climb though a "cave-like chimney" in the area where the rock quality deteriorates and the route enters a band of "chocolate-colored rock." This may or may not be the correct chimney, but either way it was pretty fun to climb and worked quite well.

The north side of Mount Temple

Headwall Pitch 2.

Headwall pitch 1.

Looking up from end of traverse under the steep chossy wall. I climbed the crack system on the right back up to the crest (all the way to the base of the final headwall) in a long 60m lead. The climbing in the first half was 5.7ish and the climbing in the second half was very loose and unprotectable. Might also be able to climb the groove on the left, may be easier but probably looser.

Chossy headwall about 3/4 of the way up the buttress. Traverse left here (see separate photo of traverse).

5.7ish climbing on the crest midway up the buttress. We simulclimbed this.

The alcove belay. From here we climbed four pitches to the top of the buttress. The first of these traversed around the left side of this small roof to a hand crack.

Headwall Pitch 3.

Nearing top of Headwall Pitch 3 and the end of the roped climbing on the route.

Amazing views and photo opportunities. Go get on it!!!

Scree sllloooggg between top of headwall and East Ridge.

Lake Annette as seen from low on the route.

Mount Temple as seen from the Lake Louise townsite. The Greenwood-Jones climbs the buttress that separates sun from shadow in the middle-left of the photo.

The handcrack pitch. The crux pitch is next.

We simulclimbed to here, then pitched out the rest of the route to the top of the buttress.

The easy scrambling at the base of the Greenwood-Jones.

The route starts by climbing through the quartzite cliff just left of the waterfall (at the top of the snowfield in the photo).

Looking down from low on the route.

Looking down from the traverse pitch.

Any geologists out there? We saw this about halfway up, not far before the traverse pitch.

Typical rock near the beginning of the route.

The steep quartzite cliff at the start of the route. We soloed it. This is about 5.4 but pretty rounded/polished rock, and I put on rock shoes for it.

The north side of Mount Temple. The Greenwood-Jones climbs the vague buttress below the very left edge of the summit glacier.

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