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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Dec 12, 2008 - 02:01am PT
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I dig Canada...
what's not to like? Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, The Cowboy Junkies..
and climbing there is great...
lots of good memories
great summer weather!
real glaciers
lady bugs!!
one of the all time great highways in the world
You could live a hundred lifetimes and not exhaust the good places to go there.
My only gripe is that Canadians talk funny, except the Québécois... words like "glacier."
We were at the Athabasca Hotel after stuffing Loonies into the pay shower at the laundromat... the waitress was very nice and complemented us on the fact that we showered before buying dinner... after being outback for 11 days (3 of which are depicted in the camping scene on the Columbia Icefields above)... my friend Mike ordered a bottle of Almaden (ok, so the wine list wasn't that sophisticated) and our waitress took it upon herself to correct his pronunciation...
"AL-mod-in" which Mike took issue with... the debate went back and forth, Mike finally pronounced his authority on this, he had grown up in Almaden Valley (long before it was "Silicon Valley")... end of argument...
...what's with the diction?
anyway, it was a great dinner, the beef is excellent and after 11 days of even my camp cooking it was fun to have something that didn't have to be reconstituted with the addition of water, usually a hard one battle involving a change-of-state...
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Dec 12, 2008 - 02:03am PT
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Oooo! MightyHiker ladybug troll!
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apogee
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 12, 2008 - 02:27am PT
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PTPP:
"...but I have noticed an uncanny consistency in the qualities of the Canadians I have encountered, including great intelligence, articulation, rationality, ... and a self-effacing humility from which the rest of the world could take many lessons."
Better?
I forgot to mention the Canucks incredible sense of sentence structure.
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Dec 12, 2008 - 02:30am PT
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Bugaboos
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Dec 12, 2008 - 02:36am PT
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What's not to like?
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apogee
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2008 - 04:31pm PT
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Chris2
Trad climber
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Dec 13, 2008 - 04:41pm PT
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O Canada...(I do love that song). When the Canadians win an Olympic medal, I always try to be near the tele to hear the your anthem.
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Scott Wayland
climber
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Dec 13, 2008 - 04:55pm PT
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More Canadian peaks and climbing photos, please! I made many trips into the Rockies (7 or 8), got up some peaks, sat around in the rain and snow a lot, and have a deep, abiding love for the place and its people. I don't know if I'll ever be back, but some of my fondest memories are of climbing in Canada.
One fine experience was waking up after an open bivy on the descent from the East Ridge of Mt. Temple. We'd climbed that long couloir on the north face in very icy conditions to gain the ridge. Crap for rock, glorious weather, we awoke to a stunning panorama of the Valley of the Ten Peaks in the golden light of dawn. I consider that to be one of the best mornings of my life. The woman who would become my wife was with me on that one. It remains one of our greatest adventures. We hiked down through Larch Valley in a blissful daze. Oh, Canada!
Scott
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apogee
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2008 - 05:28pm PT
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My 'apogee' license plate has lived here for 15 years.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Dec 13, 2008 - 09:37pm PT
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hey there... say, tonight i'm starting backwards here... not sure if i already posted here, or not, but:
three cheers for cananda, a most beautiful and vast land of beauty---though i have never been there, i sure love the pics... though i have never been there, i reckon i'd sure the folks i'd run into, too...
and, though i love the pics, i must confess---i surely reckon that the winters must be a mite hard up there... :)
so i've heard tell...
:)
love that cananda, though...
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Dec 14, 2008 - 02:26pm PT
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Dec 14, 2008 - 02:48pm PT
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MH2
climber
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Dec 14, 2008 - 03:19pm PT
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Young snots, not that this forum has any, probably don't realize how big the ranges are up here 'cause they don't get to wait for Oplopanax to come down over dial-up.
Canada isn't all snow, rubble, and hockey.
It has itty-bitty climbs, too.
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Anastasia
climber
Not here
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Dec 14, 2008 - 07:09pm PT
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Ice axes, check...
Crampons, check...
Warm clothes, check...
Willing to remove layers without shame, check...
Learning to properly say "aie"in a sentence, check...
Having a like for fine wine and beer, check...
Love hockey, check...
I'm ready, so when are we going?
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Dec 14, 2008 - 07:50pm PT
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MisterE
Trad climber
My Inner Nut
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Dec 14, 2008 - 09:19pm PT
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Tami,
My picture..geez, i thought it was Chek looking North to Garabaldi, but the perspective seems different...maybe Whistler area?
It was a higher cliffband with a Northward-traversing approach.
Yipes! - I must be getting old.
Erik
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 15, 2008 - 01:03am PT
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Erik's photo looks like Mt. Fee and area, on the Squamish-Cheakamus divide.
As there is a nearby climbing area that is sometimes called "Chek" (an abbreviation for Cheakamus), I should mention that the word is pronounced "Chey-ack-a-muss". More Coast Salish, I think, but no glottal stops this time.
So Chek should be pronounced something like "Cheyk".
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Dec 15, 2008 - 02:25am PT
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whadidisay?!
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dickcilley
Social climber
A cova Dos Nenos
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Dec 15, 2008 - 09:24am PT
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Heres to the 70s Toronto crew led by the late George Manson.Rob Rohn,Mike Tchipper Sp?,Steve La Belle,Dave Lanman,etc.Really good climbers and good friends.
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