{"id":482,"date":"2016-03-09T04:11:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T04:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mic1024.wordpress.com\/?p=482"},"modified":"2016-03-09T04:11:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T04:11:46","slug":"canada-day4-lake-louise-falls-wi4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/09\/canada-day4-lake-louise-falls-wi4\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada \u2013 Day4 \u2013 Lake Louise Falls \u2013 WI4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another epic day – completely different than yesterday, when we were pretty much done by lunch time.<\/p>\n

Today we got up as usual at 7am, I made my famous eggs and bacon, and by 9.30 we were gearing up at the car park.\u00a0Lake Louise is based around 1h drive from Canmore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The approach is super easy – essentially walk the trail by the lake – you can almost\u00a0\u00a0see the fall from\u00a0the moment you leave the car park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Strava approach and elevation gain link:\u00a0https:\/\/www.strava.com\/activities\/512209134<\/a><\/p>\n

Detailed route description can be found here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.summitpost.org\/louise-falls-iii-wi-4\/181139<\/a><\/p>\n

In short – it’s an amazing WI4\/5 (depending on conditions) multipitch – up to 120m – that can be done in anything between 2 and 4 pitches. Biggest risk involve falling debris – which one party ahead of us seen first hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Big chunk of falling ice cut Kasia’s (that we met climbing with her boyfriend) eyebrow pretty deep. Luckily I had a first aid kit and could fix\u00a0\u00a0her up before she continued her adventure on the last pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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But to get there one has to climb 3 pitches of fantastic ice up to amazing ice cave.<\/p>\n

Big shout-out\u00a0to Del\u00a0for leading the cave pitch (pitch 3) – absolute amazingballs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Leaving the cave:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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I must say though that for me, personally the most physically challenging was overhanging ice of pitch 2 leading to the cave – especially the top part of it \u00a0– lead by Paddy: good job on that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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I should have really lead the 4th pitch – easy WI3 – but by the time I finished fixing up Kasia, it was already claimed. My bad really. I still enjoyed the day – probably the best so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Us at the bottom leaving the climb. We took the right hand side line – with the cave seen 3 quarters up the route.<\/p>\n

Ret\u00a0of the photos from that day are here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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