The Team Sherpa Blog

prologue This was our traditional summer trip to the mountains. I’ve been doing these trips to the mountains for good fifteen years now and the pattern has stayed pretty much the same. During the winter season, first WE and later years I, have used skies and then on summer we just put one feet in front of the other. In both cases going up is
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Okay. I concede. We’ve entered into the shoulder season here in the rockies. This past weekend told the story of this summer’s last adventure before getting ready for real snow. Tangle Ridge (2900m) was the destination for Saturday, and after a late sprint from Edmonton down to the Columbia Icefields on Friday night we settled into our sleeping bags for a chilly night. We are
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The sun had just crept out by the time we’d had breakfast. Everybody was fairly stiff from our scramble up Sunwapta the day before, but we were all still keen to go up again. Today we would attempt Wilcox peak- a more technically demanding objective than Sunwapta, but with less elevation gain and a much shorter climb. Rowan was almost humming with energy, Guillaume was
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Touristmap: Molde 1 : 50 000 UGLAND IT GROUP Kvannfjellet is the highest mountain in Fræna, and one of the highest mountains in our area. Coming from Averøy and Eide you pass the sign to Trollkyrkja. A minute or two later the sign to Syltesetra appears and you turn left. The road passes Syltesetra and leads you to this sign. Simple as that! The trail is not marked,
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After looking through my journal this past weekend, I wondered how the summer dissappeared so quickly. Months have gone by since I shared my journey through Peru with 3 perfect strangers and I have yet to share my stories. To no further delay, enjoy… Journal: May 11-May 15, 2008 Day 1 - The Begining - Soray Pampa There is something so strange, yet so invigorating about traveling, trekking and camping with complete
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After a month of cycling through Tanzania and Kenya, it was time to climb another rmountain! I didn’t plan on climbing Mt. Kenya, had already sent all my warm gear home in fact, but being in Nanyuki and seeing it’s peaks rise above the clouds, the mountain called: climb me, climb me! I had to do it alone this time, and am not that experienced that
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This was a simple trip of up and down, that ended up with some fantastic sidetracks. Carmen picked up my brother Rowan and I on Saturday after work, and together with my sister’s fiancé Guillaume the four of us headed West out of town towards the mountains and adventure. Our plans were not solid, but the weather was forecast as stable. With a setting sun,
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