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Ascents as various tick types as ice by Alastair McDowell

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Grade Route Gear style Quality
Tue 28th Feb 2017 - Icefields Parkway
Polar Circus
WI5 Polar Circus Ice 500m Mega Classic
Mega classic ice route in canada. 7 hrs car to car

 
Mon 27th Feb 2017 - Icefields Parkway
Weeping Wall Lower Weeping Wall
WI4 Left-hand Ice 180m
Fun easy climbing great conditions mostly in the dark en route to Weeping Pillar on upper tier. Follow the lines of v threads! Popular route!

 
Tue 17th Jan 2017 - Icefields Parkway
Weeping Wall Lower Weeping Wall
WI3 WI3 II Snivelling Gully Ice 180m
Easy gulley, wet conditions, finished on more direct line about WI4

 
WI5+ WI5+ III Central Pillar Ice 180m
Easy to the cave then a monster pumpy pitch out of the cave and up the sustained vertical ice. Wet snowing conditions. Epic!

 
WI5 WI5 III Right-hand Ice 180m
Very cold day, I lead first pitch and stood at belay for at least 2 hours in miserable conditions while my partners climbed through. Bailed from near the top

 
Sun 8th Jan 2017 - Mount Dennis
WI4 Guinness Gully Ice 250m Very Good
Four great pitches up large curtains in the gulley. Led all the pitches

 
Fri 6th Jan 2017 - Stanley Parkway
Marble Canyon
WI5+ Tokkum Pole Ice 30m Classic
Steep and pumpy ice, although well hooked out

 
Wed 4th Jan 2017 - Lake Louise
Louise Falls
WI4 WI4 - 5 Louise Falls Ice 110m Very Good
Three great pitches. Fun climbing into and then exiting the ice cave. Screaming barfies on last pitch

 

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