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Rockies Ice 2014: Part 5 – The Thunder Down Under
I arrived in the Calgary Greyhound station weary, and battered. Sleep had come hard, as was typical on such ventures, and the ride from Vancouver was not made any easier by being on the tail end of a flight form … Continue reading
Rockies Ice Climbing: Part 4 – The Stacked Nuts
We are ever-so grateful for Alfred letting us lot of dirtbags using his condo, but that was quite likely the worst night any of us had on the trip. The condo was a like a furnace. Way too hot to … Continue reading
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Tagged drytooling, ice climbing, mega-stoke, Rockies, stacked nuts, WI4
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Like a Boss : How we did the West Coast Trail
(Written by Amanda Johnson) It started on one drizzly Wednesday, September 4th, 2013. As we headed to the ferry an unusual feeling settled over me, like we were going to another land and and would never return. … Continue reading
Rock-climbing season never ends
Little did we know, that Diego and my chatting at Phelix hut about going to Squamish on the first weekend in the year would become reality… After returning from an amazing four days of skiing, my stoke to slay some … Continue reading
Rockies Ice Climbing: Part 3 – The Ghost
Ian and I awoke in Calgary hearing that the others (fresh from Vancouver) were ready to go from Canmore. The plan was to skip the crowded and easy-to-get-to-crags along the Trans-Canada highway and go straight into the Ghost Valley. We … Continue reading
Rockies Ice Climbing: Part 2 – The Walking
Ian had combed through the old ice guidebook and found an adventure behind Yamnuska to Association Peak. One of these routes was a 200m WI3 and the other a 100m WI2, without much more info. Tom, Ian, and I made … Continue reading
Rockies Ice Climbing: Part 1 – The Chinook (warm-up)
Two carloads drove east from Vancouver early on Friday the 13th. The destination: the Canadian Rockies for some sweet, sweet ice climbing. We got to Ian’s mum’s house in Calgary in the evening, a chilly evening at -15C. The first … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, Canmore, christmas, climbing, ice climbing, leading, overnight, Rockies
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Taking the tools for a walk, or how I learned to ice climb
This weekend I had to stay in town on Saturday due to an exam and my ski plans for Sunday-Monday had fallen through. As I was heading home late in the evening, I got a call from Artem. He said … Continue reading
Semaphore lakes trip
Wide eyed and bushy tailed, we set off at stupid o’clock in the morning from Vancouver to meet at the Petro-Canada station in Pemberton to buy some much needed coffee, it was then that the excitement of the trip settled … Continue reading
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Tagged christmas, Face, Face Mountain, fall, hike, instruction, Locomotive, Locomotive Mountain, Mud, pemberton, scramble, scrambling, Semaphore Lakes, skiing, Snow
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Diego’s “red (nose) point” ascent.
Earlier this week, the Squamish weather forecast was not good. I was hoping to get away for the weekend and either climb in Skaha or Leavenworth.That was until Diego texted me on Thursday night, saying the forecast for the weekend … Continue reading
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Tagged bike, biking, Climb, climbing, fall, hike, mountain bike, Offwidth, Skaha, Smoke Bluffs, Squamish, sunny, wasps, Weekend
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