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. [...]

Copper Mtn and the Curious Goat - Copper is probably the least visited of the Banff Kane peaks and there is minimal trail and no cairns until the top.  It has a reputation as a confusing ascent as Dow, Sonny, Gary and Dave Stephens all did not find the easy way up!  Sonny and Gary [...]

 
Kevin, Aspen and I were looking for an easy snow free day which is hard to get this spring.   We decided on Gunnery becasue Kevin had looked at it on Sat as he and Wietse came back from a waist deep wallowing exercise on Pasque.  Gunnery is just on the North side of the road from [...]

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 [...]

I had trouble motivating myself to do Burstall pass yet again given the low cloud and snow in Calgary but I needed to get out and do something so I joined up with a group of young friends on a last minute whim.  The weather cleared up and was calmer than any time I have [...]

 
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 [...]

Winter camping always involves carrying a lot of extra gear.  I have seen a lot of stuff on sleds and pulks but the simplest idea I have seen is these crazy carpet sleds.  I will test this version # 1 this winter and update with modifications and improvements.  Can Tire Carpet is $3 and weighs nothing so [...]

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

 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 [...]