Archive for December, 2005

European Alpine Guides

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

Well, this could be the best example of a top notch guiding service I have come across yet. Accomplished cast of rad climbers and guides offering custom high end alpine climbing trips. Plenty of good advice contained in the sites pages as well.
If I ever need a guide in Europe […]

Heads Up

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

Got a 5am start this morning (Dec 22nd) hopeing to climb in Field (where temps. were forecast to be cooler than elsewhere) However, a forecast is only that, and actually temps hovered at -2, with a suspected inversion (warmer temps. at higher alt.), a light, light drizzle, high winds only yesterday (with a skier triggered […]

Waddington Range

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

Alpinist has a short slideshow on an ice route that Eamon Walsh, Craig Mcgee and myself found on the N.W. summit of Waddington this summer. In JULY actually, 10 pitches of fat water ice, what a sweet score no? This is such an amazing range, in the same trip we were able to climb […]

true story:

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

A climber on a long pitch on a mixed route clips to a piece of
pro, looks ahead at the crux, and calls down to the belay: “I don’t have any
friends, I need another screw, and my nuts are too small”!

You know you’re a red neck Albertan when;

Monday, December 19th, 2005

If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 36 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you may live in Alberta.
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you may live in Alberta.
If you instinctively walk like […]

Seeing into the future….

Friday, December 16th, 2005

No one is really sure what happened up there that day, some people say this photo was taken after climbing eight hundred feet of ice in the dark only to find out the crux pitch had fallen down the nite before, some say this scream was let loose when he found out there were no […]

Don’t you hate it when…

Friday, December 9th, 2005

Your tool gets away from you.

Friday, December 9th, 2005

R.I.S. guide Rob Owens has also started up a cool blog, check it out at:
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