 Mount
Ball and Beatrice Peak
- Canadian Rockies
Tom Seto and I
scrambled up both mountains in one day from the top of Hafner creek
about three weeks before 911.
The approach to the top of the creek took about six hours, a lot
more than Kane's guide book suggests.
The bivi site was
nice but the smoke from a nearby forest fire was intense and some
interesting photos were had. I got dizzy for a moment.
The traverse between the two summits
was fun, with one spot of ice to deal with. I used my adz to cut a
single step in but I'm not sure if Tom used it on his way back, a
down climb. I did.
Tom did an
ice glissade down from the summit but I clawed my way back up to the
safety of rock after a few slippery step's. Took a bit longer but
was preferable to an ice burn.
I found the bush whack much easier on return. It helps
to get the trail finding skills in shape. The log jumping and obstacle
course made for lots of bending, heaving and other bodily movements
that with a full pack was a good workout.
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Tom
holds the
summit register. It had a note from Glen W. Boles dated 1969 and
was pristine
Glen along with
Don Forest is a member of the Grizzly Group and one of
the co-authors of The Rocky Mountains of Canada North and
South, a two volume set of Rocky Mountain Guide Books that is no longer in print
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This is in my estimation the most beautiful photo I've
ever taken. The sun was setting through the smoke and then we saw
this thing.
This cloud was like an awesome omen, at once beautiful but
also strangely awful. At the time I thought of it as an angry
God.
In retrospect it
seems almost surreal that this moment came along when it did.
An end to a chapter in my life and the story of this world. |
I'm glad I went on this trip
instead of the Castle Mountain trip we had planned on.
Unfortunately my friend Ann never made it. I would have loved
it if she had come but nobody could be found to take care of her cat, Blue.
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believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that
myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are
more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over
experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I
believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum
American Writer, Minister, Working Cowboy
 e know that we have passed
from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]
Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
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