Ice climbing in the Ghost, Canada: Wicked Wanda

Ice climbing in the Ghost, just outside of Calgary, Canada. I was working from home for a few days but managed to get out early in the morning and do this climb before returning at work at lunch. It's only about a 30-40 minute hike from the car, and one 50-55 meter pitch of great ice. The temperature was below -20 C, very chilly and hard to avoid the screaming barfies!

For more see http://sightly.net/peter/trips/ghost/wickedwanda/

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Category:

Sports

Tags:

• ice climbing
• climbing
• Canada
• Ghost
• Wicked Wanda
• Ghost River
• Ghost River Valley
• Calgary

[fultonville]

Nice climb! You gotta love them GoPro's eh? Did a bit wearing one on Polar Circus. Good fun.

[petervalchev]

@fultonville Cool! Do you have a link to a polar circus video?

[SixtyAteOutdoors]

Sick route. I was gearing up for the season and saw this vid. What camera and mount did you us? the POV is excellent!

[petervalchev]

@SixtyAteOutdoors Thanks! It is with a GoPro HD with regular helmet mount.

[sstrong42]

You did that on your lunch break?!

[petervalchev]

Not quite, it takes half a day w/ the driving, so "before lunch" :) It's actually just one pitch and about 30-40 minutes approach so it goes pretty quick. Cheers!

[Qwert666able]

nice cauliflower ice!

[fultonville]

Sent my effort on. Also now I know to put that little rubber dealy in the buckle that holds the camera to the mount. Doing that helps cut out that creaking noise. Hope the vid ain't too tedious!

[honorcard]

F'in' A!

[petervalchev]

Thanks!