{"id":1247,"date":"2016-03-23T01:02:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T01:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mic1024.wordpress.com\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2016-03-23T01:02:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T01:02:10","slug":"we-are-back-home-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/23\/we-are-back-home-now\/","title":{"rendered":"We are back home now."},"content":{"rendered":"

We are all back home now. I’m still jet lagged, hopefully it will be gone soon.<\/p>\n

The journey back was rather uneventful (other than terrible security experience there – cause fck you, 300 \u00a0travelers who just traveled for 10h+ – queue here for 1h+ long queue to these\u00a02 out of 10 security points we have opened for you…).<\/p>\n

Anyway,
\nThe drive from Canmore to Calgary is rather easy (just over 1 hour). We traditionally made a pit stop by MEC <\/a>for some more gear shenanigans. (Del had to return his alpine gloves he purchased there – unfortunately they ripped on first use). – must have been unlucky, as I got same pair- and they worked great for me.<\/p>\n

We took a quick walk to the ‘city’, searching for some food joint. Found what looked like a pub (was actually very nice inside), got something to eat and drove back to the airport.<\/p>\n

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Some trip statistics:
\nOver the 2 weeks in Canmore we:<\/p>\n

1. we drove over 2400km in our fantastic RAV4 (medium size SUV, like this one is minimum what you need to have to access some of the routes – it still wouldn’t take us to the North Ghost – think about it if you are serious about accessing some of the more remote areas).
\n2. climbed 11 waterfalls (at 10 locations):<\/p>\n

Polar Circus (just P&D)
\nHaffner Creek ( 2 climbs)
\nSuper Bock
\nProffessor Falls
\nCarlsberg Column
\nGuinness Gully
\nWeathering Heights
\nLake Louise Falls
\nGrotto Canyon Falls
\nMoonlights<\/p>\n

For total of around 35 pitches and 1600m of climbing (more less).<\/p>\n

There is so much more to climb in the area (especially if you have proper 4×4 truck for the North Ghost access), as well as some world class climbing further up north (around Icefield Parkway), that it definitely warrants thinking about coming back next year.<\/p>\n

We’ll see about that \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Special thanks go to Grant and all the staff of the Bear Hostel<\/a>, Canmore who were very accommodating during our stay. Definitely a good and affordable place to stay in during your conquers of Alberta!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u00a0travelers who just traveled for 10h+ – queue here for 1h+ long queue to these\u00a02 out of 10 security points we have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,17],"tags":[55,75],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-2016","category-my-travels","tag-climbing","tag-ice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}