Just returned from a few days attending the Saskatchewan Section's Mountaineering Camp in the Little Yoho Valley of Yoho National Park. This year we had the Stanley Mitchell Hut which certainly made for more comfortable accommodations.
In this picture is the route up the President Glacier to the "col" and then up the right-hand ridge to the summit. This year, the snow conditions presented a few challenges. For one thing, the final approach to the col now consists of a fairly steep, somewhat exposed, thinning snow bridge between a yawning crevasse (the bergschrund) on the left and another developing chasm on the right. The situation certainly focussed the attention!
The days on the camp were spent instructing beginners to this form of recreation - things like crevasse rescue, self-arrest, kicking steps up snow slopes, knots, roped travel over glaciers and scrambling up rocky ridges. Our weather for the camp was pretty much what you see in the photo - clear, blue skies and increasingly warmer temperatures as the week developed.
It was a great week. I'm back home for a few days of rest before further mountain adventures.
In this picture is the route up the President Glacier to the "col" and then up the right-hand ridge to the summit. This year, the snow conditions presented a few challenges. For one thing, the final approach to the col now consists of a fairly steep, somewhat exposed, thinning snow bridge between a yawning crevasse (the bergschrund) on the left and another developing chasm on the right. The situation certainly focussed the attention!
The days on the camp were spent instructing beginners to this form of recreation - things like crevasse rescue, self-arrest, kicking steps up snow slopes, knots, roped travel over glaciers and scrambling up rocky ridges. Our weather for the camp was pretty much what you see in the photo - clear, blue skies and increasingly warmer temperatures as the week developed.
It was a great week. I'm back home for a few days of rest before further mountain adventures.
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