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Not Daugther Of Ice
I have been rock climbing for two years now, but before the Daugther of Ice trip was posted, I didn’t even know that ice climbing was something you could actually do – like for real. So after watching a few … Continue reading
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Tagged Daugther of Ice, ice climbing, IcyBC, Marble Canyon
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Daughter of Ice 2022
My Daughter of Ice experience started late Friday night when Linda and Mason arrived in Vanthony to collect me. I was their last passenger and so together with Seton, Anelia, Anton, and Jeffery and approximately one fuckton of gear in … Continue reading
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Tagged 4wd, adventure, beginner-friendly, Epic, First-Time, ice climbing, Snow, Suffering, Winter
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Colonel Foster in Winter
Earlier this year, my friend Liam Gilchrist and I took advantage of the first week of school closures due to COVID-19 to make our second, successful attempt at climbing the East face of mount Colonel Foster on Vancouver Island in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alpine Climbing, bivy, ice climbing, mountaineering, Winter Climbing
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Confessions of a serac n00b
Amidst the chaos of a workhike in which surprisingly little work happened on our behalves, and another couple pretrips occurring simultaneously, we somehow reached a mutual conclusion of a daytrip to the Coleman Glacier and swing some mildly heavy stuff … Continue reading
Oreos for breakfast – Daughter of ice 2018
Before I arrived in Vancouver in August it was inconceivable to me that I would ever enjoy climbing, but soon enough my roommate convinced me to give it a try. Next thing I knew, I was in a car headed … Continue reading
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Tagged Car camping, Daughter of Ice, First-Time, Frozen-food, ice climbing, large group, Marble Canyon, Oreo-breakfast, Weekend, Winter
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We climbed some ice!
Written by Alannah Wallace about Daughter of Ice, 2017 (posted for her because she is crazy busy with school and doesn’t have time to mess around with the photo system) Before I left for the trip I said to myself … Continue reading
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Tagged 2wd, Daughter of Ice, ice climbing, instructional, lillooet, Marble Canyon, winter camping, Winter Climbing
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Try, Try Again – Climbing the North Shore Winter Classics
“’Tis a lesson you should heed, If at first you don’t succeed, Try, try again; Then your courage should appear, For if you will persevere, You will conquer, never fear Try, try again…” – T.H. Palmer The North Shore is … Continue reading
Daughter of Ice · Feb. 5th – Feb. 8th, 2016
I’de like to… I’de like to say something, I’ve prepared. Hello. How about that ride in? I guess that’s why they call it Marble Canyon. Haha. You guys might not know this, but I consider myself a bit of a … Continue reading
Ice Climbing in the Rockies. With Mountains, Frost Bite and Albertan Culture.
Part 1: Driving, Driving and more Driving. And some Ice. BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEEEP! I awoke with the cardiac arrest I associate with all alarm clocks. It was 7:30, 23rd December 2015, the morning after my last exam and the subsequent … Continue reading
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Tagged 4wd, Alberta, Canmore, christmas, Dry tooling, Expediation, frost bite, ice climbing, Lake Louise, Rockies, Small Group, snowshoeing, Winter
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Seymour Saturday Nov 01
At 9 am, the parking lot at Seymour was a sheet of ice, which made it necessary to drive carefully unless you were into doing donuts. For the first half hour we needed to walk somewhat carefully to avoid patches … Continue reading