Category: Ice Climbing
Ice (and mixed) climbing. The type of climbing normally done with axes and crampons.
There’s a lot of snow in the Ghost this year!
We headed up the David Thomson Highway to check out ‘Nothing But the Breast’, but as our luck would have it, there was a party already on the route. Knowing the misery of climbing behind others and being bombarded by falling ice we choose to move on and try ‘The End of the Line’.
After kicking ass, we got a decent 4WD delivered to Canmore, so a long trip to the Dry Ranges was in order.
Back for our annual pilgrimage to Canadian ice, we found that all the snow so desperately sought for in Europe has also come to Canada! Avalanche warnings galore, but that didn’t stop us taking a trip to Field for Guinness Gully.
Hey Kats, Terry & Paul went to Aosta to find just about the only ice in Europe.
Pic shows Paul on 'Patri a Gauche'.
We finally found some ice!
And so we start the log of climbing conditions, routes, issues - anything - reported by you...
Call us crazy, but, in an attempt to grab “just one more ice climb†before the rock climbing season really kicks in (and making full use of cheap Easy-Jet flights to Geneva) we headed for Switzerland!
I’ve wanted to visit Norway for ages and ages to climb the ice that drips down the sides of the massive gorge below the famous heavy water plant.
