Heart Mountain – DOGS ON PEAKS

Heart / Grant MacEwan via east ridge (875 m elev. gain)

Kona on Grant MacEwan peak via the east ridge (normal descent route for the Heart Mountain loop) at 8:30am in early July to beat the heat and afternoon thunderstorms.

View of upper ridges of Gap Peak with Anklebiter Ridge in the foreground.

Large cairn on the east high point on the Heart / MacEwan loop. Goat Mountain massive behind at right.

Hedysarum (maybe) on Heart Mountain

Spotted Saxifrage / Prickly Saxifrage on Heart Mountain

Moss Campion on Heart Mountain.

Mountain Fleabane (maybe) on Heart Mountain

Forget-Me-Nots on Heart Mountain.

Alpine Cinquefoil on Heart Mountain.

Heart E. Ridge hike (600m elev. gain)

Kona at high point of hike on a windy day in mid-March. Lac des Arcs, Grotto, Gap and Exshaw cement plant in Bow Valley behind.

Nice view of Yamnuska / John Laurie

Heart Mtn (875 m gain)

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Vaayu (Wind), 5 years old, on ridge to Heart Mtn. on Thanksgiving Day.

DSCF6933 Heart Oct 2017 — Kona on Heart Mtn. looking at the rest of the traverse over Grant MacEwan Peak.

Kona looking at rest of the traverse over Grant MacEwan Peak from Heart summit.

Heart Mtn east ridge (gain about 875 m)

Kona on east ridge of Heart Mtn. / Grant MacEwan Peak in mid-April. Door Jamb Mtn., Loder Peak, Goat Mtn. and Mt. Yamnuska in background. McConnell Ridge (Barrier Lake Fire Lookout) below foreground.

DSCF5849 — Kona on east ridge of Heart Mountain / Grant MacEwan Peak in April

Returning over the ridge.

Yam from Heart — Mt. Yamnuska from Heart Mountain 12×16 oil KrisT 2005

Artistic impression of Mt. Yamnuska from Heart Mtn. circa 2005.

Grant MacEwan Peak (Heart Mtn.)

DSCF4974 — Olive on Heart Mtn. / Grant MacEwan Peak

Olive and friends on Grant MacEwan Peak (formerly highest point of Heart Mountain) doing the loop in February. Mount Baldy three summits in background. Barrier Lake below.