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 [...]

Last Saturday there were seven, repeat seven, climbers out on the ice at Slocan. That’s more than most days in the summer. Who’da thunk it? When our posse of five arrived, we were slightly surprised to spot two others [earlier risers] finishing the approach scramble. They turned out to be group members JT, and Margo [...]

“The leader can’t fall.” “Really? Why?” “You’re wearing crampons on heavy boots, axes dangling from your hands, and  your screw is usually a long way done.” “Ahhh, OK, don’t fall. Check.” David Lussier took Kyle Ridge and I to the Rockies around Lake Lousie for a weekend of not-as-painful-as-I-expected ice climbing. The highlight was Day [...]