Mountain Wagon

Trip Reports, RockPhil TomlinsonAugust 17, 2017mount norquaybolted anchors, banff, rockies, route description, trad climbing, route, approach, escargot corner, norquay, rock climbing1 Comment

Searching for Dead Snails on Escargot Corner

Legendarily hard to find? Or just misunderstood? Regardless, there's snail fossils, so you should brave the approach (it's not that bad).

Trip Reports, RockPhil TomlinsonAugust 17, 2017mount norquaybolted anchors, banff, rockies, route description, trad climbing, route, approach, escargot corner, norquay, rock climbing1 Comment

Searching for Dead Snails on Escargot Corner

Trip Reports, RockPhil TomlinsonAugust 14, 2017rock, rock climbing, rockies, canmore, kananaskis, calgary, tabvar, bow valley, multi-pitch, route description, access2 Comments

Heart Line is a damn long route

I'm sorry, I must have misheard you, the route is how long?

Trip Reports, RockPhil TomlinsonAugust 14, 2017rock, rock climbing, rockies, canmore, kananaskis, calgary, tabvar, bow valley, multi-pitch, route description, access2 Comments

Trip Reports, RockPhil TomlinsonJuly 10, 2017banffbanff, rockies, bow valley, cascade, wheat kings, 5.fun, climbing, rock climbing, route description, route, access, mapComment

A Downright Pleasant Day

5.fun climbing on Cascade's Wheat Kings

Trip Reports, RockPhil TomlinsonJuly 10, 2017banffbanff, rockies, bow valley, cascade, wheat kings, 5.fun, climbing, rock climbing, route description, route, access, mapComment

Trip Reports, RockPhil TomlinsonJune 20, 2017rockies, moraine lake, lake louise, rock, grand sentinel, climbing, rock climbing9 Comments

A Humbling Reminder on the Grand Sentinel

Sometimes you get spanked by an 'easy' route...

Trip Reports, RockPhil TomlinsonJune 20, 2017rockies, moraine lake, lake louise, rock, grand sentinel, climbing, rock climbing9 Comments

A Humbling Reminder on the Grand Sentinel

Trip Reports, RockPhil TomlinsonMay 01, 2017rockies, aftonroe, rock, snow, climbingComment

Plan A: Early Season Aftonroe

Howling wind and blowing snow are no reason not to enjoy a super pleasant day of rock climbing. Right?

Trip Reports, RockPhil TomlinsonMay 01, 2017rockies, aftonroe, rock, snow, climbingComment

Trip Reports, RockPhil TomlinsonApril 29, 2017rock, rockies, bow valley, climbing, sunshine slabs, banff2 Comments

Plan F: A Sullen Return to Sunshine Slabs

Sunshine Slabs - I may never go there by choice, but I always enjoy it.

Trip Reports, RockPhil TomlinsonApril 29, 2017rock, rockies, bow valley, climbing, sunshine slabs, banff2 Comments

Plan F: A Sullen Return to Sunshine Slabs

Rock, Trip ReportsPhil TomlinsonApril 12, 2017climbing, rock, rockiesComment

The Shoe was Supposed to be Cold Dammit.

There’s a famous saying that I try to have be one of the principle drivers in my life.

“If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing in a needlessly miserable manner” – I feel like someone probably said that.

Rock, Trip ReportsPhil TomlinsonApril 12, 2017climbing, rock, rockiesComment

The Shoe was Supposed to be Cold Dammit.

Ice, Trip ReportsPhil TomlinsonJanuary 25, 2017ice climbing, rockies1 Comment

Shades of Beauty

I’d wandered out to Shades of Beauty (3 pitches up to WI4) a few weeks earlier and it had been one of the few objectives in good condition early season, but I’d only lapped the first pitch, so Paul, Nando and I decided to go take another crack and see if we couldn’t get up the whole thing. Kyle and Jenny (of Jenny’s Mountain Adventures) decided to tag along as an independent rope team.

Ice, Trip ReportsPhil TomlinsonJanuary 25, 2017ice climbing, rockies1 Comment