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Wietse hikes up to Chester Lake on the wide summer trail.A nice waterfall just off the trail to the Elephant Rocks.A narrower trail to the alpine bowl between Galatea and Gusty.Looking back at Mount Chester and its reflection in a small tarn along the trail.An incredible view across the Spray Lakes Road of the Haig Icefield peaks including Sir Douglas, Robertson, French, Murray and Smith Dorrien.Beautiful morning lighting on our ascend route which is just right of center and dramatically foreshortened thanks to the wide angle lens here.Glancing back at Wietse and JW. Note all the snow!Getting closer to the scramble - ascend the snow patch in the foreground and stick climber's right of the waterfall on rock.The terrain is huge here, note JW and Wietse below me with our approach valley and even the Chester Lake meadows visible in the distance.Looking down the rubbly south face.Fortress and Gusty.Looking down the rubbly south face.The view of the final slopes to the summit - it's still further than it appears - the "small cliff bands" aren't that small when you approach them.The ascent slope is bloody huge!The only difficult scrambling is the exposed and loose summit ridge.The only difficult scrambling is the exposed and loose summit ridge.Looking off the summit ridge towards South Kidd (C) and Bogart (L).The cliff on the ridge that you have to traverse to climbers left to overcome.Commonwealth, Birdwood, Smuts, Fist, Tent, Shark, Eon, Assiniboine, Cone, The Tower, SparrowhawkFisher, Fortress, Opal Range, Gusty, Chester, Joffre, Smith Dorrien, French, Sir Douglas, Birdwood
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