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| Scott Nelson, Tim Blair, Sebastian Oppel and Sandra Nicol are planning a traverse of the Homathko Icefiled. This page is being used to help them plan logistics.
| | Tim Blair, Evan Morris, Greta Raymont and Ben Singleton-Polster are planning a traverse of the Monarch-Haiutzuk Icefiled. This page is being used to help them plan logistics. |
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| | Next Meeting: Soon!!!!! at TBD. |
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| | ==='''Schedule'''=== |
| | *April 22 to May 23 total of 31 days including travel |
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| Next Meeting: Friday night (March 31st) at S&S.
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| =='''Food'''== | | =='''Food'''== |
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| *Contact for food drops is Dale at Tyax Air: 1-888-892-9288 | | *Are we doing sleds or food drops? |
| *Sandra and Tim will call him Sunday night (April 2nd on our way down from duffy) to make a plan for the week. | | *Tim is looking into costs for flights for a food drop |
| *Whoever goes to meet him needs to take the topo maps, GPS, Flagging Tape (Scott?), Shovel, Bamboo poles.
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| ==='''Schedule'''=== | | ==='''Trip Dinners'''=== |
| *Tim: April 4,5 (preferred),11
| | 2 food groups or 1? |
| *Scott: April 3,10,12
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| *Sandra: April 6,7,13
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| ==='''Trip Dinners (for 4)'''===
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| *Tim - 5 (including 1 heavy one for cache 2)
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| *S&S - 11 (Including 1 heavy one for cache 1)
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| *Sebastian - 5
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| | ==='''Trip Breakfasts'''=== |
| | Do we want any group breakfasts? |
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| ==='''Trip Breakfasts (for 4)'''===
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| S&S are bringing one group breakfast, in the first food drop
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| ==='''Travel Day'''=== | | ==='''Travel Day'''=== |
| *April 14th - lunch, dinner at restaurants somewhere along the highway. Dinner might be hard to find along highway 20.
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| *April 15th - breakfast at the car - must bring something along (purchase in William's Lake)
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| *May 6th - last day of skiing, breakfast and lunch are in the meal plan. ? for dinner. Possibly make arrangements with Bluff Lake or Homathko Camp, or buy food at Taseko Lake lodge.
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| *May 7th - get food from restaurants, etc on the drive home.
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| Note: 1 hot lunch expected from each of us for the group <br>
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| *4 hot lunches
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| *18 cold lunches
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| == '''Travel Logistics''' == | | == '''Travel Logistics''' == |
| April 14th: We'll take two cars: Madeline and the Green Turtle. We'll drive to Bluff Lake and leave the Green Turtle there, then pile everyone into Madeline and return to Taseko Lake Lodge, where we'll leave Madeline. We'll stay the night there, then in the morning the Taseko Lake Lodge folks have offered to canoe us across the river so that we can pick up a logging road for the ski south to the Tchaikazan.
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| End of trip: The Kings will fly us to Bluff Lake, where their ranch is, and we will all pile into the Green Turtle and return to Madeline at Taseko Lake Lodge, then home.
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| == '''Group Gear''' == | | == '''Group Gear''' == |
| *Sat Phone (received) | | *Sat Phone (Ben to organize) |
| *EPIRB | | *SPOT (Tim's) |
| *2 X 30m ropes | | *2 X 30m ropes |
| *2 stoves (Tim's XGK and S&S Whisperlight) | | *2 stoves (Ben's Simmerlite and ????) |
| *Fuel, 110ml/per/day = 9.24L = 2.3L/person | | *Fuel, 110ml/per/day = ??? |
| *First Aid Kit (list items here) | | *First Aid Kit (list items here) |
| **Tim will bring: 2 tensors, 2 triangulars, bits and pieces...
| | *Binding repair kit (Voile switchback, dynafiddle, Targa Assent or whatever Evan and Greta bring) |
| **We need: Ibuprofin, muscle relaxant (purchase in Lillooet/Chilliwack), benadryl (purchase in Lillooet/Chilliwack)
| | *sewing kit (?????) |
| *Binding repair kit (Tim has parts, S&S will bring theirs) | |
| *sewing kit (Sandra) | |
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| ==='''Gear To get''' (put name beside)=== | | ==='''Gear To get''' (put name beside)=== |
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| ==='''Gear to borrow'''=== | | ==='''Gear to borrow'''=== |
| Skis (Received) <br>
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| VBL (Received) <br>
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| 3L Pot (Received) <br>
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| 30m Rope (Received)
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| Tent for Seb and Tim (Received)
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| *Tim's Mum (Jill): 604-929-0806 | | *Tim's Mum (Jill): 604-929-0806 |
| | *Ben's Parents (Genevieve and Dave): 250-746-8052 or 250-701-1054 |
| | *Frances Sharpe (Ben's Girlfriend): 778-868-8409 |
| *Mark Grist: 604-987-6336 | | *Mark Grist: 604-987-6336 |
| *Tyax Air (Dale): 1-888-892-9288 | | *Tyax Air (Dale): 1-888-892-9288 |
| *Homathko Camp (Chuck): 250-286-0962
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| *Mike King (Whitesaddle Air): 250-476-1182 | | *Mike King (Whitesaddle Air): 250-476-1182 |
| *Taseko Lodge (Sigfried Reuter): 250-305-6368 (leave message only?)
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| *Kerstin Bleitgen (Sebastian's girlfriend): 778 999 6084
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| *Sandra's parents (Tom and Julie): 604.228.1029
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| *Scott's parents (Annette and Ross): 604.736.1253
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| *Elkins Creek Ranch : 250-394-7054 or 250-394-7354
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| *CAA avalanche forcast : 1-800-667-1105 | | *CAA avalanche forcast : 1-800-667-1105 |
| *East side of traverse weather: [http://www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/city/pages/bc-60_metric_e.html Tatlayoko Lake] | | *East side of traverse weather: |
| *West side of traverse weather, if the weather is coming from due west: [http://www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/city/pages/bc-89_metric_e.html Port Hardy]
| | *West side of traverse weather, Bella Coola: |
| *West side of traverse weather, if the weather is coming from southwest: [http://www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/city/pages/bc-19_metric_e.html Campbell River] | |
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| == '''Trip Plan''' == | | == '''Trip Plan''' == |
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| | TBD |
| !Trip Length
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| !Weather Days
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| !Peak Days
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| !Travel Days
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| |22
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| !Day
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| !Distance (km)
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| !Elev Gain (ft)
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| !Elev Loss (ft)
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| !Days of Food
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| !Camp Location
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| |South end Taseko Lake Depends on how far we can drive <br>
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| |@ 5500' south of RCAF Peak
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| |Easy valley travel if snow covered. <br>
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| |6500' @ toe of Tchaikaza
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| |Ditto. <br>
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| |@ 8200' on Edmond Glacier
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| |Pretty easy glacier travel with one short steep climb and one short steep descent.
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| |2700
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| |3200
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| |At food drop GR395426
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| |Long descent, steady not steep climb. 7 days in drop
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| |3500
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| |3500
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| |7 to 9
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| |SE end Ramose Glacier
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| |May be too far with big packs? Could easily split up this section
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| |2000
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| |N toe Norrington Glacier
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| |Variations possible
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| |@4600' in Boulanger Creek.
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| |A long day. Some relatively low elevation travel down Boulanger Creek at the end of the day. <br>
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| |3100
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| |@6900' on Stilly Glacier.
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| |Longish day. Some valley travel around 5000'; some potential avi hazard in terrain trap (south and north facing slopes).
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| |@7700' in Sasquatch Pass. Longish day. Taking the big horseshoe variation around the steep slopes west of Stilly Glacier.
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| |6 days in food drop. Food cache in the vicinity of Sasquatch Pass <br>
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| |On the Homathko Icefield
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| |Exit Galleon Creek 6 days later <br>
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| == '''Map''' == | | == '''Map''' == |
| Starting at the north end of Lower Taseko Lake, ending at Bute inlet (traveling from east to west).
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| [[Image:homathko_traverse.jpg]]
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| *Link to Stikine: [[Stikine-Iskut_2009]]
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Tim Blair, Evan Morris, Greta Raymont and Ben Singleton-Polster are planning a traverse of the Monarch-Haiutzuk Icefiled. This page is being used to help them plan logistics.
Next Meeting: Soon!!!!! at TBD.
Schedule
- April 22 to May 23 total of 31 days including travel
Food
- Are we doing sleds or food drops?
- Tim is looking into costs for flights for a food drop
Trip Dinners
2 food groups or 1?
Trip Breakfasts
Do we want any group breakfasts?
Travel Day
TBD
Travel Logistics
TBD
Group Gear
- Sat Phone (Ben to organize)
- SPOT (Tim's)
- 2 X 30m ropes
- 2 stoves (Ben's Simmerlite and ????)
- Fuel, 110ml/per/day = ???
- First Aid Kit (list items here)
- Binding repair kit (Voile switchback, dynafiddle, Targa Assent or whatever Evan and Greta bring)
- sewing kit (?????)
Gear To get (put name beside)
Gear to borrow
Sleds??
Phone Numbers
- Tim's Mum (Jill): 604-929-0806
- Ben's Parents (Genevieve and Dave): 250-746-8052 or 250-701-1054
- Frances Sharpe (Ben's Girlfriend): 778-868-8409
- Mark Grist: 604-987-6336
- Tyax Air (Dale): 1-888-892-9288
- Mike King (Whitesaddle Air): 250-476-1182
- CAA avalanche forcast : 1-800-667-1105
- East side of traverse weather:
- West side of traverse weather, Bella Coola:
Trip Plan
TBD
Map