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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

 
Participants - Kevin, Dave S, Brian H, Marta W, and John. Good company and conversations helped but this was not a favorite trip.  I was busy sat and was not too organized so I did not check the weather or anything.  I was chilly on Murray last week so this time I wore a long [...]

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 trip with Wietse and Kevin. Good views but for the haze.  
Long walk - 24 km - 1350 m - 9 hrs RT
Very good trail to Niles meadow and also up East side of valley to base of Niles.  Best/fastest to use drainage gully directly to Niles up and down and best to bypass [...]