We attempt a treverse along the summit ridge of Mt. Rundle from Canmore to Banff. We drop the bikes off in Banff, then park the car at the canmore end and head up the East End of Rundle with overnight and climbing gear. We camp on a ridge and enjoy a beautiful rockies sunset.
Day 2 is more eventful. After negotiating a littel rock sectiont hat involved our first-ever rope up, we make good progress to the highest point at 2900m. But heading back down we encounter a steep drop off of 5m or so. I decide to leave my pack and have JD throw it down once i navigate the steep downclimb. Bad idea. I whiff on the catch and the bag goes flying by over a cliff, never to be seen again. We continue down to look, but in vain. We finally arrive back at the Banff Springs Hotel exausted after a 15 hour day.
