Baby Times, Nephew Times

My great little nephew for all to see, congrats to my sister and Terrance! Can wait to head back home and see them all again..

Lake Louise Alpine

So last Friday I met up with Jeff, Amitai and Zach for a climb of the classic "unnamed peak" near Lake Louise. We attempted it a few weeks ago only to get turned around by marginal weather and conditions. It was a great day in the mountains as we made our way up the ridge, weaving around loose or snowy sections, taking in the deep hues of the changing Larches and marveling at the chance to be in such a place.

The fellas coming up over the small snowpatch that signals the start of the route.
The first rock step. There are three of these steps, all close together and the first two are of similar difficulty. Probably about 5.6.
Rapelling the route after a great day. The snow slowed us down a bit and took a few hours.

A good day, thanks guys!

Alone In the Wilderness

This is one of the best things I have seen, I am going to order a copy of it

The Last Two Weeks

Well the last two weeks have been great, Michelle and I dropped by on my sister and T for a visit with the new babe two weeks ago. The little man is great and as always, we had a super time enjoying good company and having great meals. A few days before that, Michelle and I had a quick backpack into Yoho valley for an overnight. We hiked into twin falls in the morning, set our six pack of grasshopper in the creek and had a nice lazy day before heading out the next morning to Trailhead cafe in Lake Louise for their Local breakfast wrap "the cure", back to work by 11am. 

Last weekend, I teamed up with my buddy's Amitai and Zack for a nice two days of climbing at Lake Louise, then hiking up to Castle mountain hut where we continued to drink huge amounts of tea and eatca huge dinner of rice, sausage and veg. The next day reminded us that this is summer 08 as we rappeled close to 300m off of Brewers Buttress in a horizontaly driving snowstorm. All is well though as we had more tea in the hut waiting for us. 

The only other thing this week is the truck. Its come to an end after a couple of years because of a broken frame. Its sad to see it go but I am looking forward to selling it and picking something else for Michelle.

A good couple of weeks!