Mt.Hector 04/02/07

Summit !

Pete hauling his load. This guy is a sherpa!

And Pete's load laying out in all it's glory.

Mt. Hector still off in the distance, waits for the summit party on route.
This is Little Hector.

Had to stick to the rocks as the snow was super soft due to the really warm, no hot, weather

There was some awesome avalanche action coming off of Little Hector all day. We sat and watched a size 1 come off this face while we had lunch.

A long way still to go...

The slog on and on and on and on and on and on...

Almost there now...

Some how it got turned to B/W but they still made for good pic's.

This me just below the summit pyramid.
This is right below the summit and the last picture my camera made. Dead batteries so no summit picture. Pete got one of me so I will post that later.

Tangle Falls VSI 3, May 06, 2007

Tim B, Andrea and myself slept in on our go for the Skyladder route on Andromeda but I went for a ramble up Athabasca and later we all went to Tangle Falls to climb some vertical slush on May,6, 2007. The next day Tim and Andrea topped out on Skyladder as i was feeling ill and stayed behind.

Yup vertical slush!

Mt. Joffre Solo summer ' 04

I finally got to the summit of my first Rocky Mountain in the summer of ' 04. After the four previous attempts it felt good to bag it and solo at that. I had tried in winter solo, spring solo and with a friend and then got it in summer solo. I learned a lot about the snow pack in the Rockies and that was as good as a summit on every trip.

It's a ways back there.... looks can be and are deceiving. I just kept going and going and going and it never seamed to get closer.
Loved being here by myself, the weather was perfect and I felt great !

Well my first Rocky Mountain summit picture ! I spent about 2 hours up here just eating and hanging out. I really didn't want to leave but did make my way all the way out to the truck the same day. It took me 29 hours car to car with a bivi at Aster Lake.

The Canmore 500

Chris, Steve and I set off for Canmore for the weekend, fun. We started with a summit of Chinamens Hat and then off to the bar. Much fun had by all.

The boys making the way up in less than perfect conditions but still good times.

Steve almost there.

Chris coming up on the summit.

A look over the edge...

Summit with Steve on the right.

The next day we went climbin at Grassi Lakes. I lead a 5.8, slowly, in wet boots. The rock wasn't to warm either and it made for some cold hands.

Finishing up on some top rope fun.

The next morning we got a good look at the summit of the day before last. And were off.