See Martin for concise information about the legal, safety, aesthetic, and pragmatic aspects of establishing new routes in the areas. See Perry and Martin in the bibliography. See Josephson for sport climbing in the Ghost River area. This area boasts numerous small crags on the watersheds draining into the Bow Valley. Barrier, Crag X, the Sanctuary, Moose Mountain, and Cowbell Crag offer the best late and early season weather.
Approaches are all under an hour.
Generally the climbing is single-pitch on steep limestone. The approaches are under an hour. Barrier Bluffs is situated above Highway 40 along Barrier Lake. A long cliff, routes from 5.5 to 11. Wasootch Slabs dates to the Second World War.