Bill Kerr

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. This Goat Mountain is East of Canmore and beside Yamnuska and should not be confused with Old Goat Mountain which is South of Canmore and on the West side of Spray Lakes or any of the dozens of other Goat Mountains across [...]

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 [...]

Pictures are here Squaws Tit I do not know if there is anyone out there who has not done this yet but bushwacking is no longer necessary. I had put off doing this because of all the reports of bad thrashing and compass readings, etc. I decide to do Squaws solo after my hiker friend [...]

Rock climb with Kevin Papke – 1300 m -  up to 5.5 – lots of knife edge ridge. Eight hours up – 2 hours down. May 29, 2009.  Parked at the Cougar Canyon park lot. This time of year, you have to cross the stream 5-6 times on various wet slippery rock crossings as the [...]

 Successfully summiting is all about conditions and timing, so I have learned to enjoy whatever experience comes by because I usually cannot cherry pick days.  Over the years Kevin and I have dragged each other on a variety of ill conceived “Expeditions To No-where” because we take whatever days we can. So with somewhat low [...]

Lots of snow on Prairie Mountain – hike on Sunday. Pictures are here Prairie Mountain

Some Pictures from Trip through Mountains. Pictures are here Misc april 09