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Whyte Museum Show

Date: 15th November 2006

I’ve been working on a new slideshow for the Whyte Museum, “20 years of icicles.” Originally I had planned to mainly do the relatively recent history, but then I started thinking about the eras before I was climbing in the Rockies. I called a few friends from that era, and suddenly I had some amazing shots of the “early years” of waterfall ice in the Rockies, absolutely great stuff. So the title now should really be, “Almost 40 years of Icicles” in the Rockies, I’m really fired up to share some great photos from back in the day from various pioneers of waterfall ice climbing. The energy and excitement of those photos from the early 70s to mid-eighties is just too good not to share. When I look at these photos I just have to smile, these guys were somewhere between flat-out crazy and very gifted climbers, likely a lot of both. Thanks to everyone who has graciously shared their photos and stories with me (who knew that warm milk laced with sugar was the ultimate anti-hyopthermia conconction? Thanks Tim Auger), it’s gonna be a fun show.

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