Sunday, November 25, 2007
Bourgeau left
After being beat early morning yesterday by another party, I was beat again by a party today, who was there later than expected. I was hoping that nobody would be in the lower part anymore at 1 p.m., but those guys where still dicking around on the first pitch. Since I was way too keen today to touch some ice, I took my chances anyways. I had to take a little risk on the first pitch, where I decided to follow the second guy of the party on his heels, just to take the least possible chance to get hit by ice. It's a fine line of beeing very close behind him to minimize the impact of his dislodged icechunks-which by the way turned out to be huge-and being too close and ripped off the ice in case the shaky climber falls. Just before he arrived on the first anchor, I passed them, and by the time they finished reracking, I was already at the midway ledge. Now I did not have to worry about hitting them with ice anymore. They were really nice guys by the way and also from Canmore. I had myself a blast on the route and I'm slowly gaining confidence during soloing. This was the second time already I soloed this climb, it's a proud line and I can do it easily in 4h roundtrip from my doorsteps.
The picture above was taken a couple of days ago from a beautiful "full moon sunset" on Lady Mac.
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Uniform Queen
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Sunday, November 11, 2007
Nemesis
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Lady Mac
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
last day/last smoke?
Yesterday I finished my fall work at the lodge with a bonfire. Not because Matt and I are so romantic, more so because we had to get rid of some "burnable shit". After all we had a good off-season and a lot of fun, so let's hope the winter is arriving soon up there, the snowline in the Vowell is at a scary 2000m still. I also smoked my "last" cigarette tonight, see how long it last's this time!
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