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+ –…
Tag ice
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Canada – Day5 – Rest day aka location scouting
A bit different schedule than usually today – instead packing up early for climbing we decided to take a day off and do some research on the Ghost River area. It’s a very remote place- around 2h drive from Canmore.…