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Date |
Ascent Time |
Descent Time |
| 1st Time |
16 Mar 01 |
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| 2nd Time |
25 Mar 05 |
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| 3rd Time |
06 May 06 |
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Here we are on Friday, looking at the Athabasca Glacier. What a beautiful day. Unfortunately, it's a little too good
to be true.
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This is the group (except Blair) getting ready to head out. Notice all of the wands. All together, we had 250 wands,
and we used about 220 of them. (L to R) is myself, Dan, and Jim.
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This is the group heading up the Athabasca toward the SnowDome seracs. Blair is out in front, followed by Dan,
then Jim. I'm in the back
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We've cleared the Athabasca headwall, and we're about half-way up the gully on the side of SnowDome. Time for a break.
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From the side of SnowDome, if we look south, we have great views of Forbes, Castleguard, and the Lyells.
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Looking to the southwest, we have the north face of Mt. Bryce
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Here we are heading up the shoulder of SnowDome with Mt. Columbia off to the left.
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We can finally see our objective. Here we are looking at the Twins ... and taking a break. If you look closely,
you could see the clouds starting to build in the northwest (left)
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Here's another shot of Mt. Columbia.
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Time to set up camp. The first thing we do is run around in a big circle probing for crevasses,
like Dan demonstrates here. The three mountains in the background (L to R) are Columbia, King Edward,
and South Twin.
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After probing for crevasses, we start to dig out our tent pads. Mt. Columbia in the background.
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Camp is set up, so now it's time to fill up waterbottles and eat dinner. You can tell the storms are coming.
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Of course the next day was a whiteout, but we went after North Twin anyway. Here we are getting our packs on and heading out.
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The order of the rope was Blair, Dan, Jim, then myself. What do you mean, you can only see Jim.
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Ah... A break in the weather. I was starting to forget what Dan and Blair looked like. It's kind of funny
that despite being roped together, we are all going different directions. I'm not sure how that happened.
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The break in the weather only lasted so long. Now it's back to a whiteout. I think this is on our way back to camp.
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On our third day, the weather was still bad, so we broke camp and left. Can't you see Mt. Columbia in the background?
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On the way out, rather than try to ski down the headwall with four on a rope, we put two on each rope. Blair and I got on
the same rope, leaving Dan and Jim on the other rope. It's hard to tell, but I think this is Blair and Dan comparing GPS
notes and looking for wards. Eventually we got out of there.
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