Archive for the ‘Adventure’ Category
Lake City Ice
This morning Pete and I headed out to Lake City to sample some of the new ice in the Lake City Ice Park. It’s not a very large park, at least compared to Ouray, but it’s a very chill setting. When we arrived in town at about noon, there was absolutely nobody out on the [...]
Ouray Ice Festival 2010
As you all know by now, we start every year by attending the Ouray Ice Festival with our friends Andy and Gretchen. We’ve often climbed a bit of ice around town before the festival, but this November and December were just crazy with other trips, and I can’t climb because I can’t wear my harness [...]
Oh Canada!
After crossing the border into Canada (see the previous post), we headed north past several small towns. Interestingly, many are much cleaner and more affluent in appearance then their counterparts just south of the border. I wonder if the Canadians think of this part of Canada as the “Deep South”? At any rate, we continued [...]
What’s for you in Banff, eh?
Yup, that’s what the customs officer asked us as we crossed the border from Montana into Alberta early on Thursday afternoon. I was thinking, are you serious?, but I answered politely. I guess they’re probably more paranoid at the small back-country border-crossing deeply in unabomber territory than in other places.
So far, we’ve been having an [...]
LaSunder Cave
Last weekend, I ran a trip to LaSunder Cave. It’s one of the caves managed by the Colorado Cave Survey (CCS) and has a rather restrictive access policy. There are generally speaking only 10 trips per year (2 for every NSS grotto in Colorado) with at most 5 cavers (trip leader included) per trip. Since [...]