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 [...]

 
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.  [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 called in the [...]

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 trail goes [...]