Yamnuska Traverse

Today we complete the Yamnuska Traverse. The crew put in a solid effort, completing the traverse in 4 hours 30 minutes car to car!

Some highlights:

Limbo - trees knocked down by last week's snow storm

School's Out

First crux

Getting a view of the false summit

Looking over the edge of the East End

Looking over the edge of the East Side

Wolfe

Continuing on

Tricky climbing

Rest stop at one of the false summits

Snow patches

The chains

The chains got everyone pretty excited

Past the chains it didn't get a whole lot easier for a while

Nearing the summit

This is the top anchor for Diretissima, a rock climb that ascends the center of the vertical face to Yam's summit.

The former large cairn is gone. Just a couple of baby cairns now.

The view from the top

Coming down the west side

Getting a bit tired...

Just as we ran out of water we reached the spring!

A glorious day, and an accomplishment that all of the kids will be proud of for life. The view of Yam from the Rez.

Canoeing on the Bow River

On Wednesday our adventures took us on to the Bow River to practise our strokes. We mastered the draw stroke, cross draw, sweeps, backstrokes, and eddy turns.

The Stoneys feel read for the Kananaskis River!!

Camp Chief Hector Canoeing

Canoeing on Chilver Lake was a lot more exciting than anticipated with a couple of gnarly portages. Thigh deep mud and the thickest willows imaginable made for a formidable challenge. The Stoneys rose to the challenge victorious.

Jura Creek