 Doorjamb
Mountain and Loder Peak
- Canadian Rockies
Oct 15/2001
Doorjamb Mountain and
Loder Peak. Well...it's not always that you can squeeze two peaks
into 1:23. Got to Doorjamb first, that was at 1:06. Down to the car
in 2:38.
The scramble to Doorjamb
is easy except for the steep section which may be characterized as
moderate, but not very. The section of ridge from Doorjamb to Loder
is easier and fun too.
Took my new digital
camera this time. It's light and the pics are for free as long as I
have a computer to down load to. Perhaps Microsoft will fix that for
me. New OS, no pics.
It was the first new
peak for a while, with respect to the pace I've taken this year that
is; which was frenetic compared to the laid back yesteryears. I felt
very strong today, like I could keep pushing and pushing.
I know why I feel so
strong inside. It's the vegetarian diet.
Back to the mountain.
If your looking for an enjoyable scramble with lots of slabs to walk
up, then this is well worth it. I like it better than the more
popular Heart Mountain across the valley.
To get there just
drive to the Exshaw-Sebee turnoff on the trans-Can, go to the 1A, go
left (west) past Mount
Yamnuska to the ridge, turn left at the gravel pit (I think
that's what it is) then immediately right and park on the gravel
shoulder. The ridge awaits you only five minutes away. Have a good
one, but take wind gear, she a breezy.
Next: Live like me for about 24 hours.
A rambling preamble to the Middle not the Little but wish it were but she wasn't a sister.
 espair
is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It
is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt
or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches
the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of
goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
Graham Greene
1904-1991, British Novelist
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