Bill Kerr

Roy, Kevin and I along with guide Mark Klassen and assistant Kris Irwin did the North Face (Kahl route - alpine Grade III) on Thursday.  Solid day as we left the bivy at 2:30AM and were on top by 8 AM.  Good conditions as schrund was easy and only two pitches of easy ice just above the schrund. [...]

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 [...]

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

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.