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25th November 2025
Will Gadd's Guide to Canmore (updated November 25, 2025)
Note - If I've left your favorite place off the list please drop me an email I'll include it.
Canmore has really taken off in...
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25th November 2025
We welcome a lot of visiting and new local ice and winter alpine climbers to the Canadian Rockies every winter for a simple reason: It's the best ice climbing in the world on ave...
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11th November 2025
Only two years late, but I hope the result is worth it! Great John Price photographs, and everything I've learned and unlearned in the last 40-plus years of swinging, hooking, stein pul...
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4th February 2025
"You know, sometimes I sit at home, you know, and I watch TV
And I wonder what would be like to live in some place like
You know, The Cosby Show, Ozzie and Harriet
You know, where Cops co...
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14th November 2021
UPDATED NOV 2025 Version here, more in-depth.
2017 version below.
Welcome to the Canadian Rockies, home of an epically long ice season, epic amounts of ice climbing, expensive be...
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23rd October 2021
Canadian Rockies Climbing Cycle: Ice, Alpine, Rock, repeat!
By Will Gadd, November 2021
I'm often asked, “So, what’s the best season to climb in the Rockies?” I wrote the followi...
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27th January 2021
What can I do about climate change?
Why do anything? For me, it's personal. In the last five years I’ve worked on glacial/climate research projects in Greenland, Africa and Canada, and ...
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9th December 2017
"Well, I didn't hit him the picks so I wasn't trying to kill him!" Twenty years ago two enraged Colorado ice climbers in Boulder Canyon went at each other with their ice tools. One of the de...
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13th September 2017
Three Sisters Traverse Notes.
Will Gadd, Sarah Hueniken, July 4, 2017
Notes written September 12, 2017. Big thanks to Ben and Cia Gadd for the pickup, pizza and beer!
The Three Sisters d...
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26th June 2017
Alpine climbing is awesome. Being up high, the sun rising, moving over vast amounts of terrain while feeling comfortable, deep experiences with friends, it's just a great form of climbing. ...
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