Route: from the Parker Ridge trailhead on the Icefields Parkway, taking the well marked trail switch-backing up and over the ridge to a viewpoint (the precise location of which remained a mystery) over the Saskatchewan Glacier. Then backtracking to take a clear path left / north along the ridge to reach a preliminary high point before dropping to pick up minor hints of paths over two more subsidiary summits before the ridge narrows, becoming rockier and steeper to reach the end of the walker's ridge and a small rocky summit (the ridge itself continues to Mount Athabasca). Returning on the same path.
Conditions: on a day of warm sun cloudless skies as far as Bow Summit, a cloudy afternoon with the sound of thunder and heavy rain as we reached the car.
Pub: at the Bear Hill Lodge, Jasper, bottled Parallel 49 Brewing Company, Gypsy Tears Ruby Ale.
