{"id":538,"date":"2016-03-10T03:49:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T03:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mic1024.wordpress.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2016-03-10T03:49:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T03:49:01","slug":"canada-day5-rest-day-aka-location-scouting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/10\/canada-day5-rest-day-aka-location-scouting\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada \u2013 Day5 \u2013 Rest day aka location scouting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

It’s \u00a0a very remote place- around 2h drive from Canmore. Details here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.summitpost.org\/south-ghost-climbs\/291125<\/a><\/p>\n

The Ghost was established in 1967 on the front range of the Canadian Rockies and consists of 15,317ha (60 square miles) of raw wilderness bordering Banff National Park<\/a> to the east and north. Its mountains include Mounts Aylmer<\/a>, Apparition, Oliver and Costigan. The Ghost Valley actually refers to a larger area that is more specifically located approximately 30kms north of Canmore along the eastern border of Banff National Park and east of the Palliser Mountain Range. The Ghost\u2019s glacier carved valleys provide for steep water runoff creating some of the best waterfall ice climbing in Canada. Much of this terrain is considered less avalanche prone than most ice routes in Kananaskis and routes deeper into the national parks. Although not all the Ghost climbs are technically in The Ghost (many of the climbs are in Banff National Park), this whole area of provincial wilderness takes on that identity.
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\nThe Ghost Valley is discussed as the South Ghost and North Ghost<\/a> relative to climbing. The South Ghost is divided into several different areas when discussing waterfall ice: Orient Point<\/a>, Devil\u2019s Gap<\/a>,Planter\u2019s Valley<\/a>, Constellation Valley, Black Rock Mountain and Johnson Creek.<\/b> The North Ghost<\/a> includes all the climbs along both sides of the Ghost River. The \u201cNorth Ghost\u201d routes entail more of a 4×4 drive approach than the \u201cSouth Ghost\u201d routes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’ve decided to focus on\u00a0Devil\u2019s Gap <\/a>area of the South Ghost as it is the most accessible area – it still is around 2h driving – that requires 17km of gravel off-roading, very steep unpaved hill-climbing, as well as crossing dry river bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Our driver and Toyota did a good job getting us there safely.\u00a0Some manual road cleaning was required though:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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End of road – Banff National Park border. This is where you leave the car and hike couple of km (depending on the climb\u00a0you choose). This is a seriously remote area with no services and possible bear and cougars encounters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Here we see Wicked Wanda <\/a>– Wi4+ – 2 pitch 50m route we’ll come back to do tomorrow. Zoomed in photo on the link under the picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Generally it was a good day out – and we are coming\u00a0back tomorrow there to climb so stay tuned for climb reports shortly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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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 \u00a0a very remote place- around 2h drive from Canmore. Details here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.summitpost.org\/south-ghost-climbs\/291125 The Ghost was established in 1967 on the front range of the Canadian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,13,17,26],"tags":[55,75],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada-2016","category-holidays","category-my-travels","category-sport","tag-climbing","tag-ice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","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=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}