Side Trip: Banff

May 15th, 2008

Before we left the States my travel partner Drew bought a new climbing rope. We both climb and were excited to have belay partners for the trip but my rope got ruined when it was used for house construction and Drew was ropeless, so we CLIMBINGTREESbought a nice new rope for the trip and were [...]

British Columbia Backcountry: Roger’s Pass

April 13th, 2008

We spent the night at Glacier Lodge at the top of the pass, surrounded by the beauty of snowy peaks and down-shifting semi-trucks. It was a nice little ex-Best Western with that old-National Park lodge feel run by a bunch of Asians with spotty English. Graham and I struck out for an evening tour up [...]