Bill Kerr

 
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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

 
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 [...]