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Photo: Mount Cline from the south on Highway #11 at Timber Creek

Mount Cline

  • 3361 m (11,027ft)
  • First Ascent
  • Naming History
52.0700N -116.683W
Located in the North Saskatchewan River Valley 2 km west of Resolute Mountain at the head of Waterfalls Creek

Province: Alberta
Park: White Goat
Headwater: Saskatchewan
Major Valley: Saskatchewan
Visible from Highway: 93N
Ascent Date: 1927
Ascent Party: J.H. Barnes, A.L. Castle, A.L. Castle jr., Jimmy Simpson
Ascent Guide: Rudolph Aemmer
Year Named: 1898
Named by: J. Norman Collie
Named for: Cline, Michael (An employee of the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, this voyageur and fur trader was also the postmaster at Jasper in 1834.)

Jimmy Simpson was the outfitter and guide on the approach to this mountain. After leading the group up Owen Creek and crossing the west branch of Thompson Creek, Rudolph Aemmer took over guiding the group up the mountain. After recently celebrating his fiftieth birthday and not being a climber Jimmy could certainly have waited in camp as most of the outfitters generally did. But Jimmy decided to join the group on what was, at least for him, a nerve-wracking ascent.

Photo: Looking north to Mount Cline from the Icefields Parkway a few km north of Saskatchewan River Crossing

Photo: Mount Cline from the Icefields Parkway a few km north of Saskatchewan River Crossing

Looking north-northeast to the summit block of Mount Cline (courtesy Dan Ronsky)

Looking northeast to Mount Cline from Mount Wilson (courtesy Marta Wojnarowska)