Big Sister - Scramble

From the parking area follow the rather obvious path into the forest. You will spend the majority of the time above tree line so this portion should not take long.

Once the trees start thinning out you have two ways of getting onto the main slab. The popular way and the way listed in Kane's book is to stay on the right side and down climb a bit. This part is marked with a small cairn. I found it to be a lot faster if you stay on the trail your going and scramble over the rock ahead. If you follow this, it takes you a little left before joining back on the slab.

If you go left you simply walk off onto the main part of the slab up top. Whereas if you down climb you are walking up crumby rock and parts of loose rock to get to the same spot.

The route takes you to the first hump which still offers a nice view of the bow valley parkway. From here it veers left and the route is pretty straight forward upwards due to the cliffs on either side.

When the ground in front of you starts to disappear, you have nearly reached the summit. The down climb is basically all that is standing in your way.

The 'crux' of the route would probably be the down climb. It is a nice change of pace from all the walking. It does offer a few good small ledges to get your feet on and good hand holds as well.

Once you have reach the bottom, all you have left is to hike up loose rock to the summit. The last few vertical meters do not really have a very obvious route so it looks like small beaten in paths all over the place.

Return is the same way. Make sure to gain the ridge at one point on the way down or the rock gets a lot harder to climb up without rope which might force you to head back up a ways.