I like to climb mountains and make summits, but I find summer mountaineering really hard on the body. All that potential energy generated on the climb up has to be dissipated somehow on the way down and in summer this is mainly through eccentric muscle contractions and pounding through the skeletal system.
In a ski descent you will experience muscle contraction and skeletal loading but nothing like a pound down a mountain trail. If winter is on you get to rid yourself of all that potential energy doing something really special: powder skiing. Anyway this is a summer summation so on to crap about that.
I got to do a mountain in the Rockies, the Purcells, the Selkirks and the Monashees this year. Not bad as I’m only really good for so many vertical feet of descent before I start to see some damage in the form of pain somewhere.
Summer Mountaineering in the Purcells
Climbing in the Bugaboos is always a treat and with steep walls you do a lot of repelling. Great way to dissipate energy in the form of heat at the descender. I think we did thirteen 30 metre rappels coming off of Snowpatch. Thanks to my rope gun amigo MG for making it look easy.
Summer Mountaineering in the Monashees
Begbie is a classic with a lot of elevation gain (around 2232 metres / 7,322 feet), camping, glacier travel, an exposed ledge traverse and some easy, fun scrambling. I have always used tarps, bivy sacs or a cave for summer camping but this year I got so eaten by bugs up around Mount Monica that I broke down and bought a single person summer tent. It was very hot when we went in but a front was also moving in (more weather lies) and with the cloud cover it never got cold as it normally does at night at the altitude we were forced to bivy at (water). This made it hot and muggy and I was in my tarp. Worst night of bugs in my life.
Anyway when we got back to Nelson I saw a tent outside on Baker that was mostly bug mesh and I went over and bought it. Finding enough room for a two or three person tent in summer is way harder than in winter where everything is buried under snow and you can make a platform almost anywhere within reason. It’s also nice to have your own space in summer when it’s hot and sticky and single person summer tents are so light (some less that 3 pounds) that they don’t weigh much more than half a two person tent. For these reasons I like individual tents for each person in summer where as winter camping is so different that being grouped together makes more sense.
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In winter you can sleep, cook and eat all in the same place, where as in summer you have to have a different place for each activity or open yourself to critter problems. Grizzly bears being the biggest one. I found that the most important thing I brought for summer camping (besides the tent for the insects) was camp shoes instead of my usual shower sandals that I use in winter. Moving between where you cook, where the water is, where you sleep, where you hang your food and where you excrete means often moving through some challenging terrain.
So I have concluded that for me there are only two seasons: the season were the issues are bears, bugs, rain and dew; and the other season that is all about frozen water and moisture management (snow that falls as precipitation, snow that you sleep on, snow that you need to melt for drinking and eating, frost from breathing and cooking and so on).
Marmot One Person Summer Tent
I really like this tent. I’ve never owned a real one, but I can see the design details in this shelter. The opening is in a great place for ease of egress/ingress and the high tie-outs make quite stable for this kind of tent that is notoriously bad in the wind. Now when I get into camp the first thing I do is drop my pack and dig out the tent. I get only the inner mesh tent up and climb inside where I can stretch out and compose myself in comfort without the bug getting at me.
Summer Mountaineering in the Selkirks
We were hoping to climb Eagle Mountain at Rogers Pass but due to bear closures we were forced to do something else. That was a traverse of Abbott and Acton. Easy 3rd class on nice rock with some elevation gain once again.
Just read what I’ve got so far … so bad …