Some Prefer It On Top

Welcome to On-Top.ca: a website dedicated to those who prefer it on top - of a mountain. This website documents my many ascents in the Canadian Rocky Mountains (and occasionally elsewhere). It is my intent to share with you, my passion for the outdoors, for hiking and for scrambling. This website is designed to allow you to vicariously follow my adventures in the Canadian Rockies and to enjoy the splendor of their glaciated peaks and lake-filled valleys as I do. It will be updated frequently with new ascents as I complete them. Photos and a blog-style entry will be recorded for every ascent. It is my hope that these will serve as a resource for other outdoorsmen (and women) who wish to add their names to those already listed in the summit registers high atop. May you enjoy all of your scramble adventures as much as I have mine!
-Matthew Hobbs

What's New?

• Capping the 2024 scrambling season with a 99.9% bear-free hike-and-bike up majestic Mount Howard Douglas! 🐻😁
• A long-awaited larch-filled and KID-FREE (!) anniversary ascent of Unity Peak with the love of my life! 💛💛💛
• Don't believe everything that you read on the internet: a more scrambly than expected lap around the spectacular Tent Ridge Horseshoe! 😂😝
• An amazing daddy-daughter adventure 🥰 with my spirited young woman on the mountain the Piikani called "Woman Spirit Mountain": Bertha Peak.
• 2024 Team YYC 🐎🏈 Camping Trip Part 2:(Bear) Humps and wieners - now with 50% more hiking!!!
• 2024 Team YYC 🐎🏈 Camping Trip Part 1: Earning our beers 🍺 with a hike to spectacular Summit Lake.
• Haze, hills and (maybe) horses? A family birthday celebration amongst the Mustang Hills! 🥳🐎
• Rolling with it (past bear closures, on bikes, through bogs, and over blocky rubble): an enjoyable "life happens" kinda day atop Commonwealth Peak! 😁
• A chip of the old (summit) block! Introducing Mera to the wonderful world of hands-on scrambling on EEOR! 🥰🧗‍♀️

My Tribute to the Forefather of Scrambling in the Canadian Rockies Alan Kane: