Banff, a place I could spend a life time and not touch the surface......
and when Sherrie called and said her ticket was book, I started counting the days!
and when Sherrie called and said her ticket was book, I started counting the days!
So, I left Colorado (bye Andrew) crossing my fingers that I somehow had gained enough fitness to keep up with Sherrie.....The fittest people on Earth! Our first day out we chose to run up Mount Chinamen (that's not what its called now, they changed the name to be more PC (Ha Ling Peak)) and possibly link it up with Mount Lawrence Grassi. The ridge-line at the top of Chinaman was sooo cool, but smoke filled the skies so the views were not that great.
So both of these peaks can be climbed easily in a day with somewhat little difficulty.....put the link up reads "difficult route finding, third class rock scrambling, must be confident with exposure and risk...." And then as we continued to move upwards, fearing for our lives, we began to think....well, they got this description right!
Nonetheless, we did make it to the top, and it was beautiful. A great first day that gave us quite a bit of incite for choosing routes for the rest of the trip....grade three by The Scrambles book is out of my league! It was a long day out, nobody got hurt, we learned a ton about scrambling in Canada....Proud of ourselves, our abilities, decision making skills, and route finding.....do I need to ever do it again......probably not!
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