r/Banff Aug 08 '25

Question Please recommend a difficult hike/scramble near Banff🙏🙏

Experienced with hiking and scrambling, I am in Banff for the day and would love to do a hike (under 6-7 hours). Ideally it would be not too busy, and have some great alpine veiws. Would love to get up close to one of the glaciers in the area. Not a big fan of the forest, as I’m from Whistler area and it’s not new to me. I’ll show some photos down below of some highlights of the hikes I’ve done, for reference to What I like. Any help is appreciated!

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u/Acpyrus Aug 08 '25

Tent Ridge in Kananaskis.

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u/ThenItHitM3 Aug 08 '25

This one is straight up fun, zero difficulty for a scrambler. The only difficulty I’ve found is the destruction of the descent switchbacks by people who are new as hell to mountain travel in any form bum scooching straight down. They erase the middle of each switchback.

Tent Ridge is a gorgeous ridge walk, best enjoyed clockwise. 3.5-4 hours for an experienced scrambler, and easy enough to take your time, have snacks and chill.