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BURGESS Elevation: 2599m Difficulty: An easy scree ascent from Burgess Pass trail Round Trip Time: 5-8 hours Height Gain: 1330m Map: 82 N/8 Lake Louise, 82 N/7 Golden |
Mount Burgess is a quick and easy scramble with an excellent approach trail. It overlooks braided Kicking Horse River and the hamlet of Field to the south. To the north is beautiful Emerald Lake ringed by Mount Carnarvon, the President and the Vice-President. This area is world-renowned for the Burgess shale beds, where many unique and previously unknown fossils of invertebrate life forms have been found. The route described takes you to the north, or lower summit. Reaching the marginally higher south peak is more challenging and requires routefinding skills, but is feasible. Try this ascent from late July on. |
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| Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies, Alan Kane, 1992, 1995, 1999. Used by permission Rocky Mountain Books. | |||
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