Saturday, May 16, 2009

Wapta Icefields





On his way back to Africa, from the Yukon, fossil friend Greg did a ski mountaineering trip to the Canadian Rockies. As you can see from his pictures this is superb alpine terrain. Moreover, it has - as does most of Canada - a phenomenal system of huts, making haute route like traverses possible. I spent five months bagging peaks in the Banff-Jasper area, in the Fall of 1974 bagging peaks, including all the ones in these pictures. (Greg and Tory are heading to Mount Kenya for some alpine climbing in June.)