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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.

 

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2 of 49 Early morning over the parkway
1 of 49 Those early morning starts...
4 of 49 Athabasca Glacier
3 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
15 of 49 Almost at the summit
17 of 49 Mt Columbia looks to be in good shape
16 of 49 Columbia!
14 of 49 The parkway
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
42 of 49 Down!
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

andromeda climbing skyladder

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