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Mt Logan 2015

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Mt Logan 2014

Near perfect weather and people brought us to the top in very quick time. Summit day was cold -25c and 60 kph wind.

Rich and Luki on the Main Summit Mt Logan 5959m

Luki on Canada's Highest Point. Mt Logan 5959m — Luki on Canada’s Highest Point. Mt Logan 5959m

Thanks Stefan for this video.

Rockies Ice 2011 with Peter and Sue

Mt Colonel Foster

A guided traverse south to north of Vancouver Islands Mt Colonel Foster.

Land slide lake (open) and Foster (still ice covered)

Looking at top of Snow Band and Main Summit

Rich and Rod climbing back up to the NE Summit

Some History

1992

June, Mt Logan Kings Trench

1995

May, Hubsew

1996

October, China Alps, Da Shu Shan range, with Fred Becky, Jia Condon, John Chilton, the late Steve Must, and Mark ??? from NZ

1998

May, Lauchlan Ridge

June, Baffin Island

2002

Jan, Naomi

April, Bella Coola filming with the late Gilles Voirol. See a tribute by Janci Hadik below

June, arrive in Chamonix
July, Mt Blanc
Aug, Zermatt, Grindelvald
Sept-Oct Greece, Kalymnos

2003

July, Anna

Pemberton Young Life goes Alpine

Dave Treadway of Pemberton Young Life www.younglife.ca organized a three day ski touring trip to Cerise Creek in Feb 2010. School was out for the olympics. Time for some higher education with Rich.

DSCN4002 — Short break on the Vantage-Mattier Col

DSCN3906 — Breaking trail up the Joffre ridge

DSCN3956 — Full cabin, but warm and dry, good for lounging

Sucess on Canada’s Highest Summit, Mt Logan 5958m

In May of 2009 I led an expedition for Canada West Mountain School to Mt. Logan. We had a very patient crew who kept up their spirits for around 12 days until the weather cleared enough to let us fly onto the Quintino Sella glacier at an elevation of over 2000m.

Skiing down was even a bit hard too. It takes two days!

Thomas Laussermair on Mt Logan 5958 or so meters above sea level. The first of his Panamerican Peaks Project. Mt Logan. http://www.panamericanpeaks.com

Mike Spencer and Lucille de Beaudrap on the top of Canada

Descending to the Plateau Camp. Prospectors Peak on the left and Queen Peak on the Right

Hey we found a tent? Hans Kammerlander ran into some trouble and we found is abandoned camp at 5000m

Mike rising above Kings Peak after looking way up at it for over a week.

The Big White Out. Finding our way around the Big Crevasse.

Martin and Loose Wheel hangin’ in the cook shelter

One of the tougher days, pulling sleds up to Kings Col

Logan on left, Kings Peak on left and the Kings Trench center

Team members from left. Martin Fichtl (assistant guide), Thomas Laussermair, Rich Prohaska (Guide), Mike Spencer, Lucille de Beaudrap

The following videos are from Thomas. See also: http://www.panamericanpeaks.com

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Joffre Central Couloir

Just over a week after the super fun descent of Twin One Couloir Jason was up north for another day on the steeps. The stability was still good and over the last week we had 1 – 2 cm per day. Just perfect I thought for an attempt on the Joffre Central Couloir. After a predawn start from Mount Currie we set up the Duffy for the Cerise Creek trailhead. As forecast the sky remained mostly cloudy for the day which is what I was hoping for. As the temperature was warm we needed the cloud cover to keep the looming cornices and mushrooms strong and cool.

The couloir was very firm in the center and it was a good idea to have the crampons for the entire climb. The descent was very tricky at the top due to the the concave shape of the upper couloir. After the exposed rock in the upper section the snow became better for the rest of the descent (well except for the center runnel)

P1000659 — Skinning up the Joffre glacier morraine.

: rich climbing just above the chimney; beautiful granite of the couloir

jay at the changeover

jay slipping down through the crux section near the top

getting wider and the snow betterits still pretty steep!

Author: Rich Prohaska