Dru

Close to Sea of Vapours and Loose Lady, well, yes it is! Even tho LL is in a different valley...

late february in canmore is the perfect time for pegboarded out ice featuring ergonomic hooking holes and pre kicked foot-sized steps up even the steepest ice!

canmore

"Whoa dude, I haven't been this lost since, like, last WEEK!"

hot jabba&leia bondage scene!

at least for you, they get better!

'Cross country skiiers' and 'poached sweet turns' doesn't really go together any more than 'Seattle Mountaineers' and 'sent V11'

Did you have to shoot some of your dogs and feed them to the others? Did you survive on seal meat and penguin eggs?

I think that the real Coast MOUNTAIN classic (the Coast "Range" is in Oregon) will be the west ridge of Vayu.... real old school 10 tonne loose block wrestling and mantling on the shaky flake your belay cams are stuffed behind!

nappy dugout time more like

w00t

Not exactly, at the first snow patch it climbs up and then traverses parallel to but higher than the line you have drawn on the next ramp system up the face over to the arete and finishes via the line you have drawn.

Hmm but lytton is gonna be -5/-11 on Thursday - Canyon should be in big time!

Just imagine what going from 5,100 to 28,500 feels like

I dare you to read this without laughing your ass off

In other news the age group with the fastest increase in HIV+ status is over 55's.

I'd fix his "did you way" typo myself

Climb: Box Canyon-Happy Harvester Date of Climb: 12/4/2005 Trip Report: This was a last minute change of plan, after posting yesterday about Sumallo Bluffs we ended up deciding a WI4 for first lead of the year might be a bit much so went to Box Canyon instead, up the Coquihalla. Box Canyon is a cool place with lots of boulders and slide alders and devils club. It made me happy and I thought of sunshine and bunnies and candy and rainbows and stuff. I only wished Mike Layton was there so I could give him a big warm hug! Steve in the alders. Eventually we found some ice! This is the Festering Wall. It was Festering, so we backed off and climbed a pitch or so of Happy Harvester instead. Thin WI3, 13cms screws just went in in the thickest blobs. Not really all that impressive compared to the nearby routes though. Happy Harvester is the red line The third pitch of HH was formed up but the second wasn't so we rapped off and decided to bail as it was around 2:15. This time we found a better route out avoiding much of the alder, bush, boulders and postholing, so it went a lot faster and we were back at the car before dusk. Grim Reaper across the valley Upcanyon to Chrysalis area and beyond Rigor Mortis area. In short most of the ice in the canyon is still a few days away from forming up but there is climbable ice there right now, and there is now a beaten path in too. Ignore all footprints meandering off to the north as they lead to vegetative dead ends. Gear Notes: Stubbies Should have had machete, chainsaw, Agent Orange etc. Approach Notes: Not enough snow yet to snowshoe or ski, too much snow for easy hiking, you WILL posthole.

What is really sad is that men reach their sexual and reproductive peak at 18 and women at 33. Hello cougars!

I got some down my neck while ice climbing

Yeah man, go to Hyalite, ighnore those freezing temps locally More ice for us

Beckjord

You know that on those winter days when you are toying around on the slopes on your silly one or two planks you could be ICE CLIMBING right Or snowshoeing. Snowshoeing is fucking extreme.

Anyways everyone knows that the Bigfoot is a transdimensional, shapechanging type of creature, not some grubby terrestrial primate!

Good to hear there was no fatality, hope your partner recovers, Fox. Was it a cc.commer? Somebody specific we can focus the good vibes on? I understand you may not be able to release a name yet if kin have not been notified. Hopin' for a speedy recovery.