MOUNT STUBBS 2850m 9,350′
The north buttress of Cooper Pass, is 2.4 km southwest of Mount Cooper at the northwest head of Cooper Creek.
The Goat Range is made of an anticlinal structure which has been thrust faulted and folded. The north face of Mount Stubbs shows some of the geology of these metamorphic rocks.
The granitic rocks (at Mount Cooper) have also been metamorphosed.
1. Southeast Ridge. The FA party started from a helicopter camp southeast of Mount Stubbs; see Mount Cooper, Route 3. The southeast ridge varies from almost a face to a knife edge, and from firm to poor rock.
The descent was to the north of the ascent route, down a boulder-strewn slope leading to snowfields. (II,5.0,s). 4/8/1974(b).
2. East Slopes. The descent route of Route 1.
3. South Side. For the approach, see Mount McHardy Route 1 and Mount Cooper Route Also, consult the introduction for the road (Hicks Creek road) to the Alps Alturas
Boulder-hop halfway up the south side and cross into a rather rotten gully system leading to the top. (II,3,s).
FRA Mike Dolan, Janice Isaac, Kim Kratky, Knut Langballe, Fred Thiessen, 9/1974.
