Andromache – Molar glacier ski route – USE AT OWN RISK

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Bill Kerr

 

Andromache Molar Glacier

Andromache Molar glacier

This gets done in spring with good coverage and solid avi conditions.

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Mount Joffre North Face Kananaskis Beta Pics East Ridge descent July 2014

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Bill Kerr

Mount Joffre North Face Glacier Route Kananaskis July 2014 East ridge on left

 

Mount Joffre East Ridge descent -Thin RH snow gully of V- 2 raps – see climbers in lower left.

Detail on Joffre East ridge  Descent – Two existing piton rap stations on side of snow gulley

Beta Pics for Joffre North Face  Click on pics above for larger version.

More pics at link below.

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Warrior-Cordonnier Aster Lake July 24-26

Posted on July 27, 2014 by Bill Kerr
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Raf on his last peak from Kane guidebook – Northover – Joffre North face in background. Good Joffre closeups in Pics

 

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Great 3 day trip up to Aster Lake.  Poor weather on way in but got Warrior and Cordonnier.   Had to leave Sunday morning but Kevin and Raff took time to do Northover which was Raffs last Kane Peak.

The high trail around Hidden lake was lots of deadfall as usual but apparently that has been cleared now.

Some good beta pics on Joffre North Face – with climbers in pics

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Center Peak Livingstone range July 2014

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Bill Kerr

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Private land – permission needed.

Private Land on East side of Peak but landowner was friendly. Approached by gated road (just .5 km south of his residence West side of Range Rd 31B) to a gravel pit with fence and then followed cut line which goes Southwest and intersects a bowl NE of summit. bush wacked South to next ridge south and went up East face – some route finding through a rock band – moderate and loose but went down a north gully(snow) to bowl that meets cut line and back to car. Look on google map/earth

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Chisel Peak near Fairmount

Posted on July 6, 2014 by Bill Kerr

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Scramble with Wietse and Kevin.

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Ha Ling June, 2014

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Bill Kerr

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Ha Ling with Chris Goulet and Laverna from Grand Cache.

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Purple Peak April, 2014

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Bill Kerr

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Quick safe ski trip to top of Purple Peak.

 

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Blanket Glacier Feb 28, 2014

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Bill Kerr

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Blanket Mountain and Glacier – Andy admiring our AT ski tracks – backcountry trip to Blanket Glacier Chalet

 

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Blanket Glacier – Mark finishes the run. My tracks beside his.

 

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Blanket Glacier – our ski tracks are the 4 tight ones on the left. Mine second from left. Uptrack from left to right.

 

Annual backcountry ski trip to Blanket Glacier Chalet.

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Highwood Pass ski Pocaterra ridge and bowl Nov 11, 2013 map

Posted on November 23, 2013 by Bill Kerr

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Highwood Pass ski pocaterra ridge november 11, 2013 Tyrwhitt cirque bowl

 

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Not my map but shows the main lines – lots of variations

 

 

First ski trip of year to Highwood pass to top of Pocaterra ridge. 3 hrs up.

Lots of people despite – 15 C in park lot.

Better snow than expected and warm, sunny and calm on top.

 

Highwood pass pics

Wietse’s pics

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Association Peak Oct 25, 2013

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Bill Kerr

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Sunny, calm and warm day for October. Good outing with Wietse and Vern.

On top in about 5 hours with some lost time in 2 or 3 places. RT in 9.5 hrs.

About 21.5 kms and 1200 – 1300 m.   Email for GPS track if want.

Notes:  When hit the river the trail follows left side then crosses the Wendel creek and then we crossed the river to right/North side of river and followed it for a km+ before leave river bed on large horse trail which goes up to right. The trail is initially on LH side of drainage/small creek  but crosses to RH side of drainage and then up to col of Assoc hill and Assoc Pk.

From col easiest to follow road down to North for 200 m and then go straight up open slopes until hit a sheep trail which traverses right to below the left end of rockband 1.  There are three rockbands.

We went up a left hand ramp in RB1 and then easy scramble for 2 m  to big talus slope. followed faint trail to right across talus to base of RB2 and right to snow gully.

Snow was hard and frozen so we went around RH end of RB2 and up scree slope.

Went up slope to rock outcrop and bypassed it on left as RB3 dies out there.

Walk left on ridge to top.

Pics at Association   full screen slideshow best as usual

Wietse Association

Vern Association

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