It is hot here... 30'C hot!
The last three days have been with Neil Pilgrim, Simon, and Peter Amann. Yet another course with this formidable mountain guide. Peter taught us a lot about Crevasse rescue, glacier route finding, snow and general mountaineering. We had a great time and enjoyed staying at the Icefields campground in the camper truck. I took the course to ensure what I knew was correct.. what I found was that much of my technical knowledge was not correct! I'm glad I took the course. We plan to hire Peter again at the end of the season to teach us more advanced skills.
Today we awoke at 1:30 am to attempt Mount Athabasca. We made it. The conditions were a little warm, but we made it off the mountain before the sun hit and baked the snow into an avalanche nightmare. We were a fast team... reached the summit in 4:45 at 7:15 am... our maximum elevation was 3490m! The way down was a little slower than we had hoped ad much time was spent post holing through the snow... waist deep in spots. The elevation wasn't all that bad and now we are looking forward to our next peak. We mad it off the mountain at 10:11 am.
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