Posts Tagged ‘Fernie’
MAST – Mountaineering
26 September
Together with my fellow friends from the MAST program, Luc, Tucker, Eric, Justin and Ryan, I went on my first real Mountaineering trip. We went to Catamount / North Star Glacier, BC – Canada.
Today (26 th ) it rained and we decided to stay low in the woods to avoid setting up our tents in the rain and heavy wind expected up on the mountain by the glacier’s base. After having lunch we set up camp and decided to scout the trail for tomorrow we headed of up the mountain with lighter packs. The steep way up was covered partly with scree and we got small flashbacks to the Mt Fisher trip two weeks earlier. After little more than an hour hiking we reached finally the top of the morane and the base of the majestic glacier! It was SO large we all stood there eager to get our crampons on to test them and see how they are to walk on. Brian held the leaches short and said we had to wait until tomorrow before we got up on the glacier. A bit dissapointed we turned back to our camp after finding a better camp spot beside the glacier which we will advance to tomorrow before the first day of glacier skills were taught. Read the rest of this entry »
MAST – Three Sisters Hike
2 September
With blue skies and some small summerish clouds on the skies I was picked up by Trevor, Ryan and Mia outside my house. We were to climb the local mountain here in Fernie called The Three Sisters.
Trevor took us in his 4WD up on the backside of the mountains and we started our hike around 10.30am. Read the rest of this entry »