Dead Man's Flats Mountains
• A WorldWeb.com Travel Guide to Mountains in Dead Man's Flats, AB, Alberta.
This mountain is located in the Bow River Valley across from Canmore and is a popular with hikers and climbers. The mountain is also the home of Rat's Nest Cave and Grotto Canyon.
This mountain was named after Italian miner Lawrence Grassi who journeyed extensively throughout the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Throughout his travels, Grassi cleared and created trails so that others could share in his reverence of the mountains. The mountain itself is located in the Bow River Valley and provides a background to Canmore.
Visible from the town of Canmore, Ha Ling Peak is a 2,408 m (7,900 ft) tall mountain peak found in the Bow River Valley. Popular among climbers as a scrambling wall, the peak provides numerous easy ascent routes. The mountain’s official name reportedly comes from a Chinese railway worker who climbed the mountain on a bet. The man not only won the bet but he was also able to complete the entire trip, there and back again, in five and a half hours.





