Alex Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 4 day weekend to Banff. Radium highway is closed for most of the day (only open 6-11am) so plan accordingly. Going around to Golden only adds 30 miles. N Face Athabasca on Friday, it was cold on the face, with lots of ice and bomber screws. 600m. The rockband looked dumb, so we did a vertical mixed step to the right of the rockband to the exit, which was a river of water ice. Clear day. Sat morning the entire park was obscured by smoke. High clouds made it downright ominous. We tried to get into Lake OHara and Abbot Pass hut, but no. So Sun we scrambled Temple. It was cool, except that all views were negligible due to the smoke. Drove home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordop Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 TRASHIES!!!! Hey, how'd you get in to Temple. Buddy just came back and was shut out of it. Not cause of bears, but cus of actual fire in Lake Looissee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted August 18, 2003 Author Share Posted August 18, 2003 It was opened Sunday. We happend to be drinking a beer at Bill Peyto's and the guy next to us was leading an ACC trip up it the next morning. So we tagged along with their group to avoid the fine (we hadn't realized so much was closed due to fires until we actually got up there). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jja Posted August 19, 2003 Share Posted August 19, 2003 Alex said: (we hadn't realized so much was closed due to fires until we actually got up there). The ashes coming through the open car window provided our first clue ... hmm, maybe that fire thing is bigger than we thought good to see that you got up there after all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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