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 »
What a great weekend! A group of 7 motivated women, one amazing camp manager, and 4 hard working guides enjoyed 4 days of ice climbing in and around the Field area. This year I thought I would book the Fireweed Hostel. I had seen it on the web and it looked great…truth is…it ended up …
I recently found my Gravsports password and signed in rather then being a continual spider. I had new mail….no wait…it was over a year old…and it was from Will. Saying congrats on finally being a member and that next year I was invited to Spray camp for real. Ha…how ironic is that…cause that’s where I …
What a fabulous weekend! Wonderful group of women, great weather and perfect conditions allowed for 2 days of learning and getting after it! Day one, we headed to the junkyards. A morning of learning the basics, followed by an afternoon of getting lots of mileage in. Colleen even managed to do a lead! So much …
Got out the past couple days off with some good friends for some personal days of climbing. John and I were motivated to try Kitty Hawk and Unicorn…but as it rained on our drive down the David Thompson we soon had reservations about being under the bowl all day. Kitty Hawk did not look in, …
Maria and I were fortunate enough to get into the Ghost a week ago and climb Beuwolf. Thanks to friends Toby and Rene who were also driving in that day, we caught a very early ride and managed to get ahead of the group of Calgary ACC’ers that we knew were camping there. Pretty cool …