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Grimface Mountain  British Columbia . Value: 11
Height: 2635 m (8645 ft) Prominence?: 544 m  
Line Parent?: Remmel Mountain(12 km away, at bearing 184 degrees)
Location: 49:01:36-120:11:08   49.02667-120.18555   10U 705734 5434237     NAD27: 10U 705741 5434018
NTS Map: 092.H.01 (33 km SW of Keremeos).
Name Status: Official
Ranges: Pacific Cordillera / Cascade Range / Canadian Cascades / Okanagan Range / Cathedral Ridge
Regions: North Cascades / Northernmost Cascades / Cathedral-Chelan

First Ascent: Monday July 18, 1932 Neal Carter, Peggy Carter
A large, rugged granite mountain that offers numerous climbs ranging from scrambles to technical rock routes. Many of the technical routes feature chimneying and/or wide cracks.

The area around the peak was too dry to be glaciated in the last ice age, and has consequently weathered to a much greater degree than the surrounding glaciated terrain. There is lots of crystalline sand and the crags and towers of the peak display deep cracks and rounded blocks more akin to Joshua Tree than other BC granite climbing areas.

Name Notes: Named by Neal Carter for a fancied profile of a frowning face seen on a neighbouring rock crag. For some reason, Outward Bound, who used to use this area heavily, referred to Grimface as "Mt. McKeen". This usage has thankfully been quashed by the increased use of the correct name in climbing guidebooks.

Trip Reports
43 Cathedral Park - Matriarch to Grimface traverse Drew Brayshaw
39 Macabre Tongues of Magma Jennifer Nageli
37 Climbing Cathedral Walls Drew Brayshaw
30 Grimface North Buttress (Driscoll/Fairley Route) Route Doug Brown (Vancouver)
11 Wall Creek Route Mike Crpo

Topo Maps
Manning Park / Skagit River 92H2/3 ITMB Publishing Ltd. 1:50000 null

Nearby Lodge
Cathedral Lakes Lodge (BC) 

Subject Photos   View Thumbnails
19 Grimface Northwest Side (B&W) Stephen Skog
15 Grimface - South Face Drew Brayshaw
8 Grimface in October Jason Addy
5 Grimface September 2007 Chris Wilford

Placename Photos
16 Cathedral Ridge from Grimface - Matriarch, Macabre, Denture Drew Brayshaw
14 Grimface, Macabre, and Matriarch from the Deacon Drew Brayshaw
12 Cathedral Park - Panorama from Northeast Stephen Skog

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