Whew…this was another great trip! Good, weather, great peeps, and a truly amazing setting! Kir and I ran this trip last year and decided to run it again this year due to popular demand. It is a hard, taxing and exposed traverse…and we were super impressed with the girls on this course! We met up …
This year, this veteran group of mountaineers decided we would head into the Adamants to explore the peaks out of Fairy Meadows. I was super excited as I had never been in there. Kir had though, numerous times, so she knew that it would make a wonderful venue. We flew in from the same Heli …
I’ve lost count to which camp this is for Kir and I…I think 5 years now? Regardless, it is one of our favorites, with the setting, the great hut, the amazing opportunities it lends, and most of all the INCREDIBLE group of women that come out for it! This year was NO exception, and 7 …
I was hiking back from a fun day at the Lookout in May with Matt Mueller. We talked about how cool it would be to run a redpoint course, a skill, many climbers don’t tap into to up their climbing standards . Turns out Matt, had organized this course already with the ACC Rocky Mountain …
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Had a fabulous day out with Maria yesterday. Despite the super unsettled weather, and cold temps, we persevered on the original plan to do Raptor. I hadn’t climbed this in probably 8 years, so it felt totally new to me again! I forgot how challenging the 5.10 pitches were and how slippery things have become! …
Maria Raptor 5.10, 9 pitches…and Bucket City Redpoint!! Read More »
Recently I wrote an article for Gripped on key skills to learn in making the transition from front country rock multipitch to alpine rock climbing. The jump can be a daunting one, as you leave a book with pitch by pitch route descriptions and topos and embrace the 4 sentence description of a peak with …
Winter is over, spring has sprung, and summer feels fully in the air! This is the time of year for us guides to get out there and go climbing for ourselves. The reality is, winter and summer can be very busy with work and its hard on those few days off to be motivated enough …
Hmm, where do I start???? I guess this picture sort of says it all….we had a good time…ok…a really good time! So this is the 3rd year running the “ghost” camp, and the second year, sadly, that we did not run it IN the ghost! Conditions were minimal in there this year and a recent …
What a great weekend! With women coming from the East Coast to Colorado, the Pat Boswell cabin was soon filled with positive climbing energy and a stocked fridge of various beers. The Girls met up on Friday morning and we headed off to Haffner Creek. Luckily for us we were the first there and we …
Another great trip….Ken and Tim have been coming to the Canadian Rockies on 4 day ice climbing trips for 8 years now…and the last 4 I have been fortunate enough to be a part of. Admittedly finding new routes every year for these guys is getting hard! We were blessed this year though, with low …
Ken and Tim Beuwolf, Super Bok, Fang and Fist and Silk Tassle Read More »