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Little Temple - Dave Salahub’s 500th Ascent - Nov 30/09

 
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 [...]

Brett Sept 25/09

Brett - about 1600 m and 22 km - 9 hour RT. About 6 hrs up and 3 hours down. Bike trail for 55 min - bike out - 13 minutes!
Brett had never been on my radar but I took a picture from Isabelle a couple of weeks ago and Kevin wanted to do it [...]

East Stanley Ridge - Ball Attempt 2 Alpine climb

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 [...]

Stanley Valley July 10/09

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

Fossil May 3/09

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 -  [...]