Skyladder, Andromeda

May 23, 2015 Jeremie

A great climb on the skyladder yesterday. Perfect conditions, zero gear placement, fast travel… this route could have been solo’d.

1 of 49 Those early morning starts...

2 of 49 Early morning over the parkway

3 of 49 Athabasca Glacier

4 of 49 Athabasca Glacier

5 of 49 Early morning walks..

6 of 49 The objective (on the right)

7 of 49 Base of the skyladder

8 of 49 Foot of Andromeda

9 of 49 Across the valley to the snowdome

10 of 49 Athabasca Glacier

11 of 49 My two climbing compadres

12 of 49 Ready for the next lead?

13 of 49 Steepness of the skyladder

14 of 49 The parkway

15 of 49 Almost at the summit

16 of 49 Columbia!

17 of 49 Mt Columbia looks to be in good shape

18 of 49 Top of the Athabasca Glacier

19 of 49 Andromeda Ridge Walk

20 of 49 Overexposed, but you get the idea

21 of 49 Enjoying the Andromeda ridge walk

22 of 49 False summit, true summit yonder.

23 of 49 Gopro Jens!

24 of 49 Cornice Navigation

25 of 49 Ridge Walk

26 of 49 Athabasca on the other side off the AA col

27 of 49 Saskatchewan Glacier below

28 of 49 Big times in the rockies

29 of 49 Columbia looks like an easy walk right now

30 of 49 Mt Forbes and Lyells

31 of 49 Mt Bryce in the foreground

32 of 49 Diadem route we did last summer

33 of 49 Athabasca summit

34 of 49 Mt Forbes

35 of 49 Looking west from the icefields

36 of 49 My mountaneering friends

37 of 49 Guns kiss

38 of 49 Guns kiss

39 of 49 My climbing partners

40 of 49 Sketchy looking webbing on the AA col

41 of 49 Decent to the AA col

43 of 49 Sketchy looking webbing on the AA col

44 of 49 Sketchy looking webbing on the AA col

45 of 49 Our decent down the AA col

46 of 49 For scale

47 of 49 See our tracks?

48 of 49 The skyladder!

49 of 49 Silverhorn

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