Support, Tools, Mindset

2020-08-19

Thanks to everyone who donated we raised over $1800 CAD for the International Bipolar Foundation!  If you’d like to read more background on the “4 peaks” day go here.

Summary of the day

On September 1, 2015, three friends and I hiked four peaks in the Banff area in one day.  Masaki (Saki) Yokota, Tyler Williams, Loucas St-Cyr and I hiked Cascade, Rundle, Sulphur and Tunnel in that order.

Cascade Mountain – We started hiking Cascade Mountain in darkness from the Mt Norquay parking lot at 5:32 am.  Using a headlamp and a flashlight we were about one hour into the hike before the sun started to rise.  We had a bit of intermittent light rain until we got to the ridge above the Cascade Amphitheatre.  Once on the ridge we had some horizontal sleet and very strong winds.  Some of the rocks we had to hike over were glaced with ice.  Despite some of us wearing toques and gloves, we were all very cold once we got to the summit.  We got a few quick photos and rehydration before starting to head down.  On the way down Tyler broke both of his hiking poles.  Saki’s knee put him in a lot of pain.  Some of the rocks were very slippery from snow, ice or being wet from the light rain earlier. We completed this hike at 10:58 am.  Total time for Cascade was 5 hr 26 min.