{"id":1149,"date":"2013-10-27T17:16:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T00:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2020-03-25T18:26:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T01:26:52","slug":"association-peak-oct-25-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/association-peak-oct-25-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Association Peak Oct 25, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PA250079.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PA250079-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PA250079-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PA250079-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PA250079.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sunny, calm and warm day for October. Good outing with Wietse and Vern.<\/p>\n<p>On top in about 5 hours with some lost time in 2 or 3 places. RT in 9.5 hrs.<\/p>\n<p>About 21.5 kms and 1200 &#8211; 1300 m. \u00a0 Email for GPS track if want.<\/p>\n<p>Notes: \u00a0When 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 \u00a0but crosses to RH side of drainage and then up to col of Assoc hill and Assoc Pk.<\/p>\n<p>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. \u00a0There are three rockbands.<\/p>\n<p>We went up a left hand ramp in RB1 and then easy scramble for 2 m \u00a0to big talus slope. followed faint trail to right across talus to base of RB2 and right to snow gully.<\/p>\n<p>Snow was hard and frozen so we went around RH end of RB2 and up scree slope.<\/p>\n<p>Went up slope to rock outcrop and bypassed it on left as RB3 dies out there.<\/p>\n<p>Walk left on ridge to top.<\/p>\n<p>Pics at <a href=\"http:\/\/billkerr.zenfolio.com\/p443839739\">Association\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 full screen slideshow best as usual<\/p>\n<p>Wietse <a href=\"http:\/\/canada4u.nl\/p418395024\">Association<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.explor8ion.com\/2013\/10\/25\/association-peak\/\">Association<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; 1300 m. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/association-peak-oct-25-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45,14,22,29,17,40,118],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scramble","tag-alberta","tag-backcountry","tag-kananaskis","tag-mountain","tag-rockies","tag-route","tag-scramble"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3080,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/3080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}