by Don Chodzicki The annual Thrashers Rock Climbing trip took place during the May long weekend. Roughly 30 section members gathered in the Wasootch Creek area of Kananaskis to test their climbing skills on rock slab. Morning of Day 1 participants started with a refresher of proper belay technique followed by warm-up climbs on "D" [...]
The ACC Sask's annual Choppers Ice Climbing trip took place in February 2011.20 participants headed out to Nordegg, Alberta for ice climbing combined with hot tubbing as a recovery. Day 1 had the group head out to Balfour Wall to accommodate an unexpected Adventure Race at one of our planned locations.The day started [...]
Ice Climbing Adventures by Robin Silver When I was first asked by my friend Drew to go on the ice climbing trip I immediately had two thoughts... 1. There is no such thing as ice climbing, itβs just a fancy way to ask me to help him clear snow from his roof 2. You should [...]
One of the blogs we occasionally follow is The Mountain World. A recent post of theirs told the story of some rope testing results.The story should serve as a reminder to all of us who use ropes for climbing (I have an old one I use only for winching down trees, so it doesn't count!). [...]
by Kendrick HamiltonThis year the Sask section hosted the second "Thrashers Reloaded" rock climbing trip. We tried moving away from a long weekend as an experiment this year, the idea being there would be fewer people if we climbed during the week. So this year we tried Sunday July 19th to Tuesday July 21st. Saturday [...]
