Wapta Icefields – June 2017

Intro to mountaineering course through Yamnuska Mountain Adventures.  This was a 6-day course where we worked on our glacier travel and falls arrest skills while seeing fabulous scenery and meeting great people.  This was an amazing experience through Banff National Park and the Bow valley.  We had the opportunity to summit Mt. Olive, Mt. Gordon, and […]

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Ice climbing at Big White – Feb. 2017

We decided to take a drive south, through Kelowna and up to Big White ski hill.  Have been thinking about it for a year or so now and finally made the opportunity real.  A full day of ice climbing.  Constructed out of 4 telephone poles and equipped with water misters, the ice is ever growing, […]

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Halfway Hot Springs

One of our favourite natural hot springs and the closest to where we live.  Always a great place for some R & R for the sore muscles after hiking in the nearby mountains.  Located roughly 13km up Halfway logging road between Nukusp and the Shelter Bay ferry, a high clearance vehicle its recommended for the […]

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