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A closer view of Mount Cleveland on left, the tallest peak in Glacier. I have also seen the other side of this peak when we hiked in the Waterton Valley. On the 22nd at our motel, I would meet Jen from Chicago, a friend of Tina's and a fellow glacierchatter, who had climbed this mountain. I think the peak next to it is Kaiser Point.
The book The White Death, Tragedy and Heroism Inside an Avalanche Zone by McKay Jenkins tells the story of five young climbers who were swept to their deaths in December of 1969 while attempting to climb Mt Cleveland's West Face. Outside On-line published an interesting article, also by McKay Jenkins, about this incident, And None Came Back. A successful winter ascent of Mt. Cleveland was not completed until March of 2005 when local climbers Josh and Isaac Mohler summited, it was Josh's fourth attempt.
Mt. Cleveland is the highest peak in Glacier National Park. It is situated on the north side of the park about four miles south of the Canadian Border. The views and sense of wilderness are unsurpassable: I've never stepped in Grizzly Bear poop on the top of another mountain. Although technically easy, it is still very fun and challenging. In "A Climber's Guide to Glacier National Park," Gordon Edwards describes it as follows:
The climax of the Northern Lewis Range in Glacier National Park is Mt. Cleveland, the highest peak in the Northern Rockies of the US. The Sierra Club who placed the register on the summit in 1924 indicated the nature of the climb by writing in their 1925 Bulletin that their consensus was "That the ascent of Mt. Cleveland involves all the difficulties and hardships of the Red Kaweah, Mt. Whitney, and Mt. Shasta combined."
Although Mt. Cleveland is only a little higher than several other peaks in GNP, the summit views impart a feeling that you are vastly above everything else. To the north, south, and west lie all the giants of the Rockies of British Columbia, Alberta, and Montana.
The book The White Death, Tragedy and Heroism Inside an Avalanche Zone by McKay Jenkins tells the story of five young climbers who were swept to their deaths in December of 1969 while attempting to climb Mt Cleveland's West Face. Outside On-line published an interesting article, also by McKay Jenkins, about this incident, And None Came Back. A successful winter ascent of Mt. Cleveland was not completed until March of 2005 when local climbers Josh and Isaac Mohler summited, it was Josh's fourth attempt.
Mt. Cleveland is the highest peak in Glacier National Park. It is situated on the north side of the park about four miles south of the Canadian Border. The views and sense of wilderness are unsurpassable: I've never stepped in Grizzly Bear poop on the top of another mountain. Although technically easy, it is still very fun and challenging. In "A Climber's Guide to Glacier National Park," Gordon Edwards describes it as follows:
The climax of the Northern Lewis Range in Glacier National Park is Mt. Cleveland, the highest peak in the Northern Rockies of the US. The Sierra Club who placed the register on the summit in 1924 indicated the nature of the climb by writing in their 1925 Bulletin that their consensus was "That the ascent of Mt. Cleveland involves all the difficulties and hardships of the Red Kaweah, Mt. Whitney, and Mt. Shasta combined."
Although Mt. Cleveland is only a little higher than several other peaks in GNP, the summit views impart a feeling that you are vastly above everything else. To the north, south, and west lie all the giants of the Rockies of British Columbia, Alberta, and Montana.