Mount Strom
August 13, 2013
3023m
Assiniboine Area, BC
Despite the its elevation being above 3000 meters, Mount Strom is merely a bump to the northwest of the mighty Mount Assiniboine. Dan and I did it as a short diversion from our 2-day ascent up the NE Ridge of Mount Assiniboine. We approached from Assiniboine Creek, commonly known as the BC side approach. Once we gained the col between Strom and Assiniboine, it was a short and easy trudge up scree to the summit of Strom. The summit offers great view of our primary objective. For a full report of our trip, go to my Assiniboine’s trip report. Here, I’ll only focus on the part between Strom/Assiniboine col and Mount Strom.
For those of you wishing to see the north face of Assiniboine up-close, but don’t have the skill to climb it, I will suggest Mount Strom and its higher neighbour, Wedgewood Peak. They’re both easy scrambles from R.C. Hind Hut and offer great views in a remote area. This is a beautiful area so maybe someday I’ll be back to scramble up Wedgewood Peak.
Dan trudging up Mount Strom. Assiniboine/Strom col below
The mighty Mount Assiniboine
Panorama view of the northeast side.
Another panorama view of Magog, Assiniboine, and Sturdee
Panorama view of the west side, the BC side
A closer look at the NE Ridge of Assiniboine. Getting psyched!!
Looking north down to Wedgewood Lake
A zoomed-in panorama view of the BC side. Smoky..
Zooming-in looking north
Dan coming to the summit of Strom, with Mount Magog behind
Wedgewood Peak
Me on the summit of Mount Strom
Mount Sturdee
A closer look at Mount Sturdee
Another look at Mount Assiniboine
Dan on the summit, signing the register
Our entry.
Lake Magog and the Assiniboine’s core area
Steven's Peak-bagging Journey 
Hello Steven, long time reader.
I’m looking at doing a summit of mount strom from lake magog next weekend.
I’m hoping you might be able to shed a little light on the conditions and what to expect.
We’ll be coming in from Lake Magog (north side)
No intention of summiting the quite technical Assiniboine neighbour but would love the close up view from Mount Strom summit or at least the col.
Couple of questions,
How many hours should we expect from the Lake Magog area up to the col of strom/Assiniboine?
How technical is that summit from the col?
It looks like there’s a decent ascent to the col but to get up there does it have well travelled steps up and down similar to most of the scrambles and hikes around? Or is it a less travelled trail that we may get cliffed out on?
Thanks very much for your insight and experience (both on this one and in general)
All the best,