March 14th – 22nd/09 – Ice Climbing in the Bow Valley and up in Jasper National Park. “Crunch, crunch, crunch… RIIIIP!” – yet another hole in the pants. Learning to walk with crampons was one of the many skills learnt in the ice climbing section that kicked off our 3-month Mountaineering Skills Semester this spring […]

“Just finished the first component of ski touring with the Mountain Skills Semester Course. I could have not asked for a better group of people to be with out in the back country. The week started of with a fun day of skiing at sunshine to refine our ski technique and then moved very quickly […]

I was lucky enough to spend the last four days on the Wapta Icefields with 5 great folks from Canada, Germany, Switzerland and the US. The deep freeze of the previous week was replaced, as we headed to Bow Hut, by the wind and snow that was to stay with us almost to the end […]