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ecoulthard
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Edmonton, Alberta
Canada
331 Posts
 Posted - 05/21/2010 :  2:13 PM  Show Profile  Reply to this posting
Our original plan was to ascend Mount Athabasca and possibly Mount Andromeda. Rain chased us away Saturday morning to David Thompson Country where we ascended Mount Ernest Ross. After scrambling Mount Ernest Ross we headed back to the icefields center where we found out that it hadn't been freezing overnight. There were plenty of visible avalanches, including on on the ramp of the Athabasca Glacier. We gave up on a ski ascent. After leaving the icefields center we went on a short hike I was interested in checking out. We crossing the Sunwapta which was a foot deep and hiked along the flats to the Stutfield Glacier. It took us 2 and a half hours round trip. On Sunday we decided to ascend Hawk Mountain. It was cloudy and threatened to rain on us throughout the day. We managed to gather a few ticks on our weekend as well. I counted at least 10 among the 3 of us. I was being very cautious about avoiding bush and managed to get away with only 2 ticks. We found Peter Amanns footprints in the snow on Hawk Mountain. He had been up there 2 days previously and left us a lot of fresh flagging, which made it much easier to stay on route.

Here are links to my photos from our adventures.
http://eric-coulthard.com/TripPhotos.cgi?year=2010&day=May~15&type=Scrambling&trip=Mount~Ernest~Ross&index=-1&up=
http://eric-coulthard.com/TripPhotos.cgi?year=2010&day=May~15&type=Day~Hiking&trip=Stutfield~Glacier&index=-1&up=
http://eric-coulthard.com/TripPhotos.cgi?year=2010&day=May~16&type=Scrambling&trip=Hawk~Mountain&index=-1&up=
Edited by - ecoulthard on 05/21/2010 2:14 PM

lobo
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Jasper, ab
Canada
1029 Posts
 Posted - 05/21/2010 :  2:27 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Great pictures Eric. It snowed a lot last night up there. It's good that you got your trip in when you did

no quitting
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Powell River, bc
Canada
2537 Posts
 Posted - 05/21/2010 :  5:52 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Wow,sweet pictures Really missing the Rockies!!!

sandu
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vancouver, bc
Canada
475 Posts
 Posted - 05/21/2010 :  6:02 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Nice pictures,amaising views thanks for posting

Alex

Bry
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258 Posts
 Posted - 05/22/2010 :  10:45 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Great photos, thanks for posting. Next week, I'm going to be a bit north of Mount Ernest - it's nice to see ahead of time how the area is doing for snow.
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Marilynx
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New Orleans, Louisiana
USA
301 Posts
 Posted - 05/22/2010 :  12:52 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote

Lovely shots....

Do like your slide show script.

ian779
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Peace River, AB
Canada
146 Posts
 Posted - 05/22/2010 :  1:13 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Too bad your original plan didn't pan out, but good work getting some early season scrambles instead. Your photos are simply amazing!
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