Six Days With the Sask Section

Just finished helping out with the Sask Section's Mountaineering Camp, where we take (relative) beginners and start the process of helping them learn how to travel in the mountains safely.

This year, the camp was held at the Peter & Catharine Whyte (Peyto) Hut, the northern-most hut on the Wapta Icefield.

Because of a bridge issue on Peyto Creek (apparently out since last September and apparently not something Parks Canada wants to fix), our route in was via the Bow Hut.

Each day we held class sessions and traveled across the glacier to climb one of the nearby peaks. We had almost every kind of weather possible, from rain to 6" of new snow to solar furnace. From a distance, we could see the toe of the Peyto Glacier where there is now a lake and a steadily receding glacier. But we all know that climate change has nothing to do with that....

All in all, a good week with great participants and old friends.

More pictures can be found here.