Ancient Piton - Mount Stephen

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Ancient Piton - Mount Stephen

Ancient Piton - Mount Stephen

Ancient Piton with welded biner near base of groove on main wall of Mount Stephen. Aug/05. Stephen was the first mountain in the Canadian Rockies over 10,000 ft that was climbed in the 1880's.
Bill Kerr
on Jan 24, 2009 9:55 pm
Lat/Lon: 51.39860°N / 116.4333°W
Image Type(s): Alpine Climbing
Image ID: 483199

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Bill Kerr

Bill Kerr - Jun 29, 2010 11:17 am - Hasn't voted

Re: SOLID!

It certainly was solid. We found several of these on the mountain and all were driven that deep. They are over 2 ft long and 2 inch x 1/4 inch width so the big question is who carried the sledge hammer to beat these in that deep!?

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