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Mt. Joffre

With only one day of school behind me, I missed the next one to climb. After doing the Spearhead the previous weekend, I was not looking forward to the coming semester. My dad was hoping to get out and do a couple of big training days before an upcoming work trip. I jumped on the opportunity to mountaineer. One of the mountains that was not climbed from my Logan training list was Joffre Peak. I had summited Matier (the next mountain over) and loved going to/near Joffre park. We would ascend via Cerise Creek, as we had been on the … Read more
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Slalok

 

On April 10 my dad, my dog and I left our house. It was a cloudy day, but my dad thought that we would still be able to make it up Mt. Slalok. It is situated beside Mt. Matier and across from Mt. Joffre. It is in many photos of people who hike the Joffre Lakes trail, the coastal equivalent of Mt. Victoria at Lake Louise. We reached the trail head of the Joffre Lakes at 9:45. Soon after that we left the empty parking lot. It was fairly clear as we crossed the first lake and ascended to the

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First Ski of the Season

Yesterday, October 30, 2016, I went skiing. I’m so excited that I got the chance to ski this early in the season. My family, (my dad, my mom, my younger sister and me) set out in the morning. We drove from our house, up the Duffy lake road and to the Joffre Lakes parking lot. We hiked up to the third lake with our skis on the side of our bags and our ski boots inside them. They trail was icy and slippery, but we avoided falling. We were planning on heading up towards the Mattier Glacier and skiing down … Read more