Words by David Lussier. Cam Shute and I returned to beautiful Mulvey Basin in Valhalla Provincial Park this past July and completed a new route on the South Face of Asgard Peak. Our cumulative efforts spread over two years along with an evolving vision resulting in a new independent line on the right side of [...]
Finally. The pack rat has been foiled! How many of us alpine enthusiasts trudged gear and food up to the base of Mt. Gimli only to have everything fall victim to Rattus norvegicus? My friend Josh had his T-shirt and climbing shoes chewed through when we were up there once. And my friend Dave and [...]
Story by Craig Stowell This is a story about two Dads making a return to climbing and training really hard (for busy Dads that is) this summer, culminating in a long-overdue trip into the backcountry after many years of absence due to kids, family, work, homesteading, life, etc. Devil’s Dome is an amazing Shark Fin [...]
Having an adventure is easy: walk out your door, put yourself in some form of harm’s way, suck it up, live to tell the tale. Reporting about an adventure can be a little bit harder. Usually we’ve experienced the highs and lows of the journey and then we grab a scotch, sit down in front [...]
My mountain spectre was backed onto a bank of cloud, hovering over Mulvey Basin, surrounded by a rainbow halo. His legs must have been 40 feet high and his torso was a blob of shadow topped by a miniscule head cast in nimbus luminescence.
Dave Jack, Bill Morris and I recently established a new route on Creston’s amazing Topaz Tower. When I first wrote about this area in 2002, I described it as a “futuristic rockclimbing peak”. Perhaps the future is now.
Mt Gimli is the centerpiece (centerpeak?) of the Valhallas. First climbed in 1973 by P. Koedt, P. Rowat, N. Rowat, G. Shannon, and J. Hamlin, the South Ridge is one of the best climbs of it’s grade in the Kootenays. It’s certainly one of the most famous. This was my, and my partner Scott Meyers, [...]
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