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I had attempted Mt. Cory back in 2007, only to turn around 20 minutes from the summit. There was a steep snow slope to cross, I had no helmet or ice axe, and the weather was getting worse. I backed off, thinking that the mountain will always be there and I would someday return.
This time I was better equipped, I found a better route, and the weather was great. I was rewarded at the top with two summits of equal elevation...the north summit just 10 minutes farther than the first summit. Traversing to the north summit required carfully crossing a remnant cornice (no overhang) which was quite steep, but soft enough to kick in good steps. I took a two hour break at the north summit, feeling like I deserved it after coming up the mountain twice.
On the return to the south summit, I found an alternate route so as not to cross the snow again. There was a series of good, dry ledges to the right of the cornice which provided fun, waist-high steps to ascend.
In fine weather, Mt. Cory is quite an enjoyable objective, with interesting geology such as the 'pebble wall' and a large cave. The broad ridge that one must follow provides many ways up, with good hands-on scrambling, as opposed to the loose scree so often found in the Canadian Rockies.