It's been a pretty long haul through July. I've been out every weekend since the last of June, and needed a nice refreshing break. Good thing I had planned an exec weekend in Nordegg with a small group of UAOC exec, a past exec, and a couple friends.
We all headed out to my stand-by campsite at the West end of Lake Abraham. We met up rather late since both carpools had to leave after 6 that evening, but the party soon got under way. Crashing at 2 am, we did a super alpine start around 10ish and meandered our way up to the Water Knot Wall for some sport climbing around noon. Water Knot was nice. The rock isn't stellar, but the view off the cliff is outstanding. There's a rather crimpy 10c there which is some fun, and some sick looking 11b and c's as well. Did the 10c but will have to go back for those 11s once I get to that grade.
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| Adam poses for some product placement. Brewhouse was the brew of choice this weekend. |
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| Pim finds Water Knot pretty rad |
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| The view back towards Nordegg and the prairies |
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| And across the lake towards Hummingbird |
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| Josh TR'ing the 10c |
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| Interesting ways of drinking water! |
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| Erich decided to go for a dip in the river. Since it was running at about twice the normal speed, some safety rigging was used. |
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| Dinner on the fire |
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| We built a proper rager of a fire |
On Sunday, we headed over to The Dark Side crag. It's literally the last cliff before the prairies. We only set up two pitches, but it was still fun. There are some nice routes there and I would like to head back and properly tour out the crag.
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| The view from the top of "Wooky's Woot", which I used for faux-tography purposes |
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| The way home |
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| Katelyn on the local 10d |
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| Adam on the same route |
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| Adam is the crimping king |
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| Crimp 'till you're limp |
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| Alex smiling her way up |
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| Turning the camer upside down is the ultimate in faux-tography. |
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