Ha Ling Peak
June 15, 1999, spray mountains, kananaskis country
- Summit
- 2408 m
- Gain
- 800 m
- Distance
- 6.5 km
- Technical
- SC5 YDS (Hiking)
- Activity
- scramble, hike
- Quick 'n dirty
- Class 2 - you fall, you sprain something
- Difficulty
- Easy scrambling with exposure and hordes of other people to make it 'interesting'. A new trail is being built for this extremely popular mountain as of 2019.
- Route
- Map
In the spring of 1999 we went with a group from the office. At the time I thought that this was one of the only peaks that you could do without ropes and climbing gear. Little did I know that there are hundreds and hundreds of peaks in the Rockies that can be done with only a good set of lungs and some mountain ‘smarts’. It took me a few years, but as a prairie boy I fell in love with mountains and never looked back.
In 2009 I went back up Ha Ling with my family and our small Pomeranian dog. This should indicate how ‘easy’ Ha Ling is, especially nowadays with the beaten trail.