Bill Kerr

 
Dave Salahub – 500 Ascents in 33 years(1976 to 2009)
 
A long time friend of mine – Dave Salahub e-mailed about skiing Little Temple by way of Lake Annette in Paradise valley.  Good snow coverage in Lake Louise area this year so sounded interesting.   Dave, Dan Roulston and Brian Hunter and I followed old trail to [...]

Good shoulder season trip with Wietse, Vern and Kelly. Would not want much more snow than this but worked out okay despite full on snow bizzard at the summit.  Powderface trail closes on Dec 1 so one of the last weekends to try this.   RT was 8.5 hrs and about 21 km and about 1100 [...]

The shortening days and a week of cloudy overcast weather made me crave some outdoor mountain time. Getting up to go to work in the dark doesn’t feel good and even morning workouts and playing hockey 3 times a week does not fulfil the need to exercise outdoors.   I managed to crank off a couple hours of skiing at Canada Olympic [...]

Scramble with Kevin on Friday Sept 4.  8 hour RT - Mainly sidehilling and scree slog on bad rock - glad it was partly frozen together.  I can see why this trip is rated so low - “Only for diehard rockies scree fans” was a favorite quote from the trip reports - partly offset by good [...]

 
Goat Mountain traverse from North to South or from Yamnuska to Hwy 1A.
Friday Aug 28/09 with Wietse and Kevin.  About 10 km and 1100 m and 1400 m  total.  We took 13 hours as we did as much of ridge as we could and did 4 raps.  Beautiful sunny day- great time with good guys.  [...]

Hiked up to base of Gap with a buddy.  Explored on the rock but too loose and exposed for a hiker.
Tried out a new camera - Olympus 565UZ.  My friends with DSLR’s will howl but I have owned top quality SLRs and I am not a good photographer so the extra capability is wasted on [...]

Great Alpine climb along East ridge of Stanley in an attempt to ramble along the continental divide over Beatrice and do Mount Ball. Stopped by 5th class bump before Beatrice- lack of equipment, poor rock, route finding and time. Overall great adventure in fantastic setting. 
We did 1700 m and took 14 hrs RT.   Note really [...]

Wet reconaissance hike.
Pictures here
Stanley valley july 10/09