Category: Canada 2016
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We are back home now.
We are all back home now. I’m still jet lagged, hopefully it will be gone soon. The journey back was rather uneventful (other than terrible security experience there – cause fck you, 300 travelers who just traveled for 10h+ – queue here for 1h+ long queue to these 2 out of 10 security points we have…
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Canada 2016 – They’ve done it! Polar Circus conquered!
So it happened! After enormous effort, 2 days of planning and 13 hours of climbing the biggest ice they’ve ever seen, Padriac and Del conquered the notorious Polar Circus (WI5, Grade V, 700m). From Canada2016-LastDay-PolarCircus From Canada2016-LastDay-PolarCircus As soon as they rest,one of these two gentlemen will write a full report. Stay tuned! From Canada2016-LastDay-PolarCircus
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Canada – Day 13 – Haffner Creek
We’ve decided that since we are all tired, and the guys still want to check out Polar Circus (800m, WI5, Grade V) before we go home on Sunday, we’ll take the next few days very easy, hence the choice of Haffner Creek. It is located in Kootenay National Park near Banff. It’s about 45 minutes drive from…
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Canada – Day 11&12 – Super Bock and rest day
Super Bock is another of series of climbs named after beers in Field, British Columbia. It is found on the east end of Mt Stephen and have few options in terms of approach. One of them is to drive to Field, and walk from there for around 3km on rail tracks (east), the other option…
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I can’t type today.
It was such and epic and long day that I’m exhausted and can’t really type today. I’ll do detailed entry about today’s climb tomorrow. Let me just say that it featured avalanche bombing train tracks running River crossings We are all back on the ground, with big smiles on our tired faces. Detailed report coming…
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Canada – Day 10 – Profesor Falls WI4
Today nobody had a problem getting up at 7am. We all knew what was awaiting us – an amazing 8 pitch, 210m monster climb – Profesor Falls. It’s a Canadians Rockies must do classic. We quickly drove out to Banff, as we wanted to get on the climb as early as possible. The walking is pretty…
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Canada – Day9 – Carlsberg Column WI5
This WI5 climb can be pitched in different ways (depending on how it’s formed in given year). We did it in following way: Derek Aherne – Pitch 1 30m WI4 & Pitch 5, 20m WI5 Michal Samsel – Pitch 2 30m WI2 & Pitch 4 WI3 Padriac Gibbons – Pitch 3 60m WI5 Pitch 3…
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Canada – Day8 – Rest day, relocation and Banff
Our original plan to move up the valley today changed as we discovered the area more over the week. Basically the 2 options for accommodation for ice climbers in the Bow Valley are either Canmore (where we arrived 7 days ago) or Banff – a very touristy Chamonix-like town 25min drive NW on Trans-Canada Highway. Banff…
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Canada – Day7 – Guinness Gully WI4
With: Derek Aherne – Pitch 1 & 3 Padraic Gibbons – Pitch 2 Michal Samsel – Pitch 4 For today we had planned to do of amazing 300m of Cascade Falls WI3, however upon arriving to the base of the climb it turned out it was nearly gone (due to its south facing position). Our…
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Canada – Day6 – Weathering Heights WI4
They say not to step into the same river twice – I mostly agree – unless it’s a Ghost River Wilderness Area. We’ve revisited the place after scouting it yesterday – this time fully geared up From Canada2016-Day06-WeatheringHeights with intentions to either climb Wicked Wanda WI4+ (as seen from the car yesterday, around 40min walk from the…