The annual Sask Section ACC mountaineering camp visited a new area this year: the Adamants in the North Selkirks, northwest of Golden. The Alpine Club has a hut in this area (look closely in the trees at the lower left), the Bill Putnam Hut at Fairy Meadows, situated at around 2000 m, with easy access to the Granite Glacier (shown in the photo) and the Gothics Glacier. It's quite a spectacular place.Although the hut isn't all that far from the West Columbia FSR, the terrain is rugged and the trail (which does exist) is much overgrown with slide alder and devil's club, so the most sensible access option is helicopter. With 4 flights of about 5 minutes each, we were able to ferry 19 people and their mound of gear to the hut in under an hour.
The week was spent exploring the area, providing instruction on glacier travel, knots, crevasse rescue techniques and other topics related to travel in the mountains.
It was a great week although the sun and heat made it pretty warm on the glacier.
Pictures can be seen at: https://plus.google.com/photos/106717482826961530532/albums/5905871919361023969?authkey=CMCf88WG65qU0wE
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