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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

Kidd Lookout Oct/2011

  Short hike/scramble in Oct.  Windy. Pictures here Kidd Lookout   Full screen slide is best.

Vimy Peak Sept 30/2011

Drove down to Waterton for a great bike and hike on the last warm day of the year with Dave Salahub and Brian and Elaine Hunter. Went up the well constructed hike trail versus Andrew’s scramble route as the scramble to scree ratio looked way too low.  Beautiful day – great views.  Nachos and beer at Twin [...]

Lake Agnes July 30/2011

   Sunny day hike with the family.  Some beta shots of Victoria, North Victoria and Aberdeen.   Pictures at lake agnes  

Fisher Peak – Cranbrook July 5/2011

       Not to be confused with Fisher Peak in Kananaskis See Fisher Kananaskis Went to Moyie Lake for my Mom’s 80th birthday clebration.  Was to continue to USA but forgot passports so stayed around lake a few extra days and got talked into an attempt on Fisher. Too much snow given I only [...]

Colembolla Oct 1/2010

Trip with Kevin P and Dave S.  This was a plan B or C as we decided not to cross the river for Skogan and we were looking for something that we all had not done given the time, etc.  We drove to Nakiska and walked the service road around the right side of the [...]

Akamina Ridge

Waterton Monday Sept 6/2010 – forecast was wrong – snow on the ground and rained and snowed on and off all day.  Would be easy scenic hike on nice day. Good execise – ignored overgrown cutline which would have been very wet thrash and followed trail into forum lake and up to ridge west of [...]

Harney Peak Black Hills South Dakota

Road trip to Black Hills SD.  Visited Custers Battlefield and Devil’s Tower on way down. Black Hills are centered around an igneous uplift and are higher than anything  else east of the rockies. Hard rock with large quartz and gold seams – great history - native american, wild west, gold rushes, and lots of great attractions.  We saw re-enacted [...]

Limestone – Lime Wedge June 25/10

We debated the stream crossing for Mary Barclay and should we just take bikes but decided how deep could it be – well – too deep and fast – so plan B became Limestone Mountain and the Lime Wedge ridge. I was expecting more and better trail but okay bits – easy to lose as [...]

Gunnery Mtn June 6/2010

  Kevin, Aspen and I were looking for an easy snow free day which is hard to get this spring.   We decided on Gunnery becasue Kevin had looked at it on Sat as he and Wietse came back from a waist deep wallowing exercise on Pasque.  Gunnery is just on the North side of the road [...]

Livingstone South March 27/10

I will let Kevin Papke tell this story. His posts from the RMB Outdoor Forum With Bill Kerr and Dave Salahub we adventurous souls drove away south for a garrentee’d target. A minor peak at the south end of the Livingston Range. After almost 3 hrs drive from home we finally left the car at [...]