Outdoor Year 2013

This is the 3rd year I am writing the annual summary of the activities and exploration that me and Zuzka have experienced. Never give up living an interesting and adventurous life with new and memorable experience.

2013 I improved my confidence in rock climbing and accomplished first multi pitch climbs. I now have a playboat that I learned some new moves on and I taught Zuzka basic WW kayaking skills. Zuzka also became a freerider and is comfortable in powder and steep terrain. We spent numerous nights in backcountry, skied powder, learned a little bit of alpine touring and as the highlight of season we visited Alaska for the 3rd time. Alaska, and I have to say it once again, is the greatest place on earth and everyone should taste it at least once in the lifetime. We explored another new part of AK in Prince William Sound - Cordova and Valdez. We also visited my favorite city Vancouver again.

The 4 highlights of 2013:

•  getting back to freeride skiing and skiing the Delirium Dive on Sunshine and back gullies of Lake Louise
• climbing the Kid Goat 5.8 multi pitch route
• kayaking 100km solo overnight trip on Kootenay River (WW2)
• kayaking Copper River on Alaska during the 5 days expedition

For 2014, I would like to set a goal as experience winter camping, get into easy trad climbing and kayak more rivers with overnights.

Kayaking

1. Upper Kananaskis River
2. Lower Kananaskis RIver (with Zuzka)
3. Bow River - Golf Course
4. Spray River - 6km walk in - UF!
5. Bow RIver - Muleshoe Parking (with Zuzka)
6. Upper Bow River III+/IV-
7. Healy Creak, Sunshine, III, solo, out of canyon climb
8. Bow River - flood water, Redearth to 1A Exit
9. Bow River + pipestone r. finish, Lake Louise (with Zuzka)
10. Elbow River, campground to Bragg Creek
11. Bow River, Ghost Dam down (with Zuzka)
12. Mistaya River, III, Upper section
13. Kicking Horse classic run, IV-
14. Yoho River, lower section, IV, Dan swam
15. Cascade River, canyon run, in storm
16. Kootenay River - rest area to Canal flats, solo 100m, 1 night out (forgot headlamp, bear before dark on left bank, I love my comfy Dagger Mamba- 6 + hours in boat first day)
17. Copper River, AK, Chitina to Cordova bridge 339, 5 days, flood stage, bears, cold, glaciers, 2 nights + one day downtime,
18. Johnson Lake, Banff

Climbing

• Tunnel Mountain Blackband
• Tunnel Mountain Industrial
• Sunshine Rock
• Spray Slabs
• Rundle Horn (multi 2x)
• Heart Creek
• Tunnel Scoop, Ballista 2 pitches
• Guides Rock, Aftenroe multi
• Tunnel Mountain, the shoe multi
• Kid Goat multi, Yamnusha area

Hiking and biking

• Guides Rock (sheep chilling under cliffs, before sunset solo) 
• Kid Goat spring explore
• Smith Lake, castle junction, bald eagle
• Surprise Creek, Rock Lake, deep snow, wet a cold, warming up with fire, plastic sacks on feet, moose by cabin

• Marbel Canyon - kootenay
• Silverton Falls, castle junction
• Brewster Rock (by sunshine rock)
• Kananaskis Lakes bike 35km (pocaterra, whyskey jack), hike lake side, moose with little one on camp, 

• Dog Mountain , seymour, Vancouver, BC
• Lighthouse park, Vancouver (snake)
• Burgeau Lake, 40+ Mountain Goats on the slopes, bridges washed out, marmots 
• Bow RIver trail Lake Louise
• Fairview Lookout, Lake Louise
• Bloom Lake, wolf hauling
• Glacier Lake, icefields 2 nights, one of the beautiful places deep in the valley, bushwack to the glacier view, goats by the river before dark

• Hawk Creek, arnica lake, 3 days, kootenay , mosquito
• Cadron Lake, peyto lake, creek crossing, nice ridge and moraine hike
• Bow Hut, glacier access
• Cirque Peak and dolomite valley, BC camping 2 nights without camp site
• Berg Lake + trips around Mt. Robson, 3 nights
• Gun Sight Mountain, Glenn HWY, AK
• Alyeska Mt. under tram, Girdwood, AK
• Biron Glacier, AK
• Redearth Valley bike and hike to Shadow lake (snow starting)
• Lake O Hara, 2nights, alpine route cicrle, Zuzka fell on ice to face on flat road
•  Ha Ling Peak, Canmore
• Castle Mountain Lookout and cliffs