Lillooet Mountain

April 24, 2026

2944m

Lillooet Icefield, BC

Lillooet Mountain is one of the more iconic objectives on Lillooet Icefield even though it’s not one of the highest. This peak still boasts over 600 m prominence above Lillooet/Tisiphone saddle. This was the 4th objective of the short 4-day traverse across the core zone of Lillooet Icefield, and earlier in the day Francis, Alex, Seb and I had already climbed Mu Peak, Delta Peak and Mt. Dalgleish.

Mu, Delta, Dalgleish and Lillooet, the 1st day of Lillooet Icefield traverse. GPX DL

Lillooet Mtn. appeared “right there” in front of us but what lied ahead was over 3 km of undulating terrain just getting to the base of the SE Face. The view was extremely foreshortened and the scale of this icefield was immense. Coming from the British Columbia’s SW it was hard to picture the scale of the terrain up there, but fortunately I’ve done multiple trips to the greater icefields such as Columbia Icefield or Alaska’s Mt. Fairweather, so I knew the game. There’s one intermediate bump that we opted to traverse around on the east side, even though itself boasts over 100 m prominence. We just didn’t have enough energy to “bag everything” in this trip. The route worked out well until we encountered a patch of ice. Alex and I gingerly down-climbed on snowshoes whereas Francis and Seb opted for some other techniques. We were then at the base of the SE Face of Lillooet Mountain ditching our heavy packs.

Traversing around that P100m bump towards the SE aspect of Lillooet Mountain

Despite the aspect the snow had been frozen solid the entire day, so there’s no need in carrying flotation devices. We all donned crampons and one ice axe was also sufficient enough as the slope was never too steep. Two of us decided to not even bother carrying a backpack. The steepest roll was actually at the bottom (~40 degrees) but higher up we encountered some post-holing. We also came across some “few days old” tracks that we later discovered was from Alex Barth on peakbagger.com. I was not surprised at all given the bomber weather/stability window we were having currently. Seb led the way staying on Alex B.’s tracks but it still took us a while to reach the summit.

Seb starting up the lower SE Face of Lillooet Mountain

Seb leading the upper route. The terrain is bigger than we thought

Alex and Francis following up, with Mt. Dalgleish in the distance

At this point we were following the previous group’s tracks

Seb nearing the summit of Lillooet Mountain

Summit Panorama from Lillooet Mountain. Click to view large size.

Bishop Lake was still frozen. Mt. Queen Bess in the far background

The “Roanoke Group” on the heart of Compton Neve…

Mt. Raleigh with Mt. Waddington and Mt. Tiedemann in the background

Mt. Daphnis left of center. We didn’t have time to tag that one.

Looking NW down towards the “Four Way Stop”, with Bishop Lake

A closer look at Mt. Denman in the Powell River area

Wahoo Tower with Manatee Peak and Dugong Peak behind

A view of the part of the icefield that we just traversed across..

The view was significantly better than from the previous 3 peaks so we lingered up there for a while before descending. There’s not much worth noting about the descent as we all simply plunged down following our own tracks. There was at least one sagging that we needed to be careful about, but the glacier was overall very filled in and posted no concern. The planned camping spot was right under the east face of Mt. Tisiphone so we still had over 5 km of plodding ahead, down the crevassed Dalgleish Glacier. Thankfully the glacier was still very filled in, and we had the previous party’s skin tracks to roughly guide the way. We got to the camping area about 1.5 hours before sunset and that gave us enough time to set up camp and dry out the gears.