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Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Walsh, Slawinski Establish Roadside Alpine Line

Two weekends ago, Audrey Gariepy and I made an attempt on a prominent, unclimbed feature along the Icefields Parkway. For years I'd been eyeing the rocky cocktail, which ascends the big quartzite corner/chimney system high above Shooting Star on the west aspect of Mt. Wilson (3260m). In a 27-hour car-to-car effort, we climbed nearly three quarters of it. But Audrey left the Rockies for her tree-planting season, so this past weekend, April 5-6, Raphael Slawinski and I teamed up and sent the route...

Taken from: Alpinist Magazine.

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