Watch Sends on New Alumni Wall 5.13s in Bow Valley

McGillivray Canyon is a slot canyon between Mounts McGillivray and Heart in the Bow Valley. The canyon itself has been used as an adventure course for local camps for decades and in the 1990s, a group of climbers bolted a southwest facing vertical wall, but never recorded any information about it.

A few years ago, a group of climbers rediscovered the potential and started to bolt routes on a wall 100 metres up the canyon they called the Alumni Wall. The climbers include Dexter Bateman, Braden Bester, Patrick Gibeau, Dawson Vlessides and Simon Yamamoto.

There are now around a half-dozen sent routes up to 5.13b and a number of closed projects. Find beta to the area on Sendage.com here or on the Sloper App here.

Alumni Wall Routes

Temptation5.11b
Bubbles Buried In This Jungle 5.12b
The New Normal 5.13b
2AM Wake Up Call 5.12d
Spanish Pipe Dream 5.13a
Feasting on the Flowers 5.13b