Castle Peak and Windsor Mountain - Castle Wildland Provincial Park (Alberta, Canada)

2018-07-13 - Castle Peak and Windsor Mountain. The impressive Windsor Ridge massif contains a truly iconic pair of peaks. So iconic in fact that they are the namesake of the entire region including two provincial parks, a nearby ski resort, two nearby peaks (West Castle, North Castle) and two river & valley systems (South Castle, West Castle).

Looking from almost every direction the massif (the entirety of which is often noted on maps solely as 'Windsor Mountain') appears steep, daunting and unattainable, almost as if daring one to climb it.

The hike starts with a long bike ride (14+ Km) to get to the trailhead. The hike itself is fairly straight forward -- as long as you find the trailhead! Going up the nearby drainages will add time and frustration to the hike. The entire Castle - Windsor traverse is over 11 Km. I don't know the exact distance as I lost one of my cameras coming down from Windsor Mt. That camera had the GPS track I was recording as well as some of the best photos and videos of the hike. Grrrr. I went up the next week to Windsor Mt again to look for it (no luck) and even wore the same clothes (how's that for commitment to continuity? haha) and spliced some new videos and pics with the ones that were in my alternate camera.

see also:
https://peaksandstreams.com/2016/07/1...
http://www.spectacularmountains.com/w...

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