Ice Climbing

          Another winter activity which I was wishing to do finally came true: Ice climbing. Good that we did it now as the season for it is going to be over in a couple of weeks! At 8am we left Lake Louise and we drove in a van to Canmore, a little bit more than one hour down the Trans Canadian Highway. Once there we got our equipment, ice climbing boots, spikes, helmet, harness and tools, and then we drove near Spray Lake where we had to walk a little bit inside the forest. There we practiced different ice climbing techniques (basically how to walk with the spikes on our boots) before learning how to use the tools at the ice wall, which was kind of a struggle because of the flying ice chunks (that was one of the reasons I decided to use my ski goggles). So after learning all that we finally were able to go on the frozen waterfall and climb it! Everyone of us seven did great, it was an awesome experience, I did it three times getting till the 25 meter high top two times! Around 6pm we were back home, as we obviously had to stop at Tim Hortons to get some food ;)