Bill Kerr

Annual heli in backcountry ski - alpine touring trip to the Blanket Glacier area in the Monashees SW of Revelstoke. Big area with lots of above and below tree line skiing.  First two days were mostly cloud and scattered snow so we skied low  or in the trees but got up high to the Vortex [...]

 
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 [...]

Winter camping always involves carrying a lot of extra gear.  I have seen a lot of stuff on sleds and pulks but the simplest idea I have seen is these crazy carpet sleds.  I will test this version # 1 this winter and update with modifications and improvements.  Can Tire Carpet is $3 and weighs nothing so [...]

Park at fish creek park lot and ski up Lake Louise ski out past Temple lodge. Then skied in on the lower Skoki trail which is a snowmobile track - (versus the higher summer trail), to Deception pass and then booted up the ridge on Fossil Mountain.  Used my light weight cross country gear -  [...]

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

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.