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Canadian Rockies Guidebooks

See Rocky Mountain Books http://www.rmbooks.com/ Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies By Alan Kane http://www.rmbooks.com/book_details.php?isbn_upc=9780921102670 More Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies By Andrew W. Nugara Release Date: 01/05/2007 http://www.rmbooks.com/book_details.php?isbn_upc=9781894765862 The 11,000ers of the Canadian Rockies Updated Edition By Bill Corbett Release Date: 15/01/2009 http://www.rmbooks.com/book_details.php?isbn_upc=9781897522400 Selected Alpine Climbs in the Canadian Rockies By Sean Dougherty Release Date: 01/05/1997 Dated but still usefull http://www.rmbooks.com/book_details.php?isbn_upc=9780921102144

ESE Ridge of Lady MacDonald 5.5 (aka SE Ridge)

Rock climb with Kevin Papke – 1300 m -  up to 5.5 – lots of knife edge ridge. Eight hours up – 2 hours down. May 29, 2009.  Parked at the Cougar Canyon park lot. This time of year, you have to cross the stream 5-6 times on various wet slippery rock crossings as the [...]

Mount Thompson – March 12/09

Added some pictures of one day ascent of Mount Thompson. About 1200 m total elevation gain and about 24 km RT of ski and climb. Pictures are here Mount Thompson  – use fullscreen slideshow- use appearance settings to get high res and move comments, etc to the bottom. Wietse’s Pictures from same trip. Vern’s Pictures and writeup

Blanket Glacier Monashees March 2009

  Added some pictures on 4 day trip to Blanket Glacier Chalet in the Monashees southWest of Revelstoke. More pics to come. Pics are here – use full screen slideshow. Blanket Glacier March 09 Note older Blanket glacier pictures and links under ski trips tab at top.

Rhonda South Feb 22/09

Added some of the pictures for Wapta trip. Pictures are here Rhonda S Note the slide show with Cool Iris or Full screen slideshow now works at high res or click on any picture in high res version.