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4451449 osmuser63783

Is this the route described in the following article as a class 5 rock climb?
https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/mount-smuts/

Should it really be marked as highway=path? Would climbing=route perhaps be better? Maybe add a difficulty tag e.g. climbing:grade:yds_class=5.x if someone can assess the difficulty.

(The most popular difficulty tag is sac_scale of course but from the information I can find online, this climb is off the scale correct?)

4306349 Doug Lutz

The labels on this track are wrong. “Porcupine Tower” is the pinnacle beside the currently marked “Porcupine Ridge”, and the high point on this ridge before ascending higher to “Crown West”, would be considered “Porcupine Ridge”… the current place marked as “Porcupine Tower”.

Providing the incorrect information is causing confusion, because when someone says they climbed “Porcupine Tower”, and the pictures show this benign ridge compared to the real Porcupine Tower, the viewing person says

4306347 Doug Lutz

The labels on this track are wrong. “Porcupine Tower” is the pinnacle beside the currently marked “Porcupine Ridge”, and the high point on this ridge before ascending higher to “Crown West”, would be considered “Porcupine Ridge”… the current place marked as “Porcupine Tower”.

Providing the incorrect information is causing confusion, because when someone says they climbed “Porcupine Tower”, and the pictures show this benign ridge compared to the real Porcupine Tower, the viewing person says “Huh?”