Thread: N Face of Clemenceau

Quite the year in the Rockies/Selkirks and one of those don't show you mom what you skied lines



Here's Clemenceau - http://www.biglines.com/articles/mt-...ifson-lefebvre



Here's N face of Bryce

http://www.biglines.com/articles/mt-...-chris-brazeau

S face of Sir Sandford

http://www.biglines.com/articles/mt-...elkirks-canada

Impressive. Those boys have been getting it done in fine style. Very tricky route finding below the pic. Be nice to see the complete line. Skied the traditional west face a few yrs ago and stopped and looked at the north for a long time on our way to Columbia. No real clean line with tons of holes. Major props. I'm not sure, Ptor may have skied tnf. Alot of vert of holes to link together

Nope Ptor skied the W face the week after I was there and got weathered with Jonny simms, Jonny Red. But i could be on crack and wrong

Your probably correct. I might be confused with an attempt and a non trad ski line on n twin. West face? Of n twin

I'm not familiar with that line. there's a ton of unskied area around that part of the Rockies along with the CUmmins area though. That N face must be the proudest line there

Big lines being slayed up there this year! Impressive effort and in style. Well done.

It's been a stellar year.

i love reading stuff like this. thanx

Bad ass. Nice work by all involved. You wouldn't catch me anywhere near faces like that, but I guess that's not saying much!

We skied the W. face in the early 90's, which we thought was rad for a couple skinny little guys on skinny little tele skis. I don't think we even looked at the N. face as a ski line, not even in our imaginations. Things sure have changed.

Is that funky hut still there. on the moraine to the W. of Clemenceau?

the old ACC hut? Full of mould & abandoned as far as I know (although it might still be there).

Grassi Hut has been demolished. It was a POS

A video of the Sir Sandford descent is at

http://vimeo.com/40676292

The summit shot is superb.

I'd post more pictures Stan and keep this thread alive but people on this site are internet keyboard jackoff hacks that really aren't interested in big lines because they can't possibly conceive of anything outside their podunk little bumps - they'd rather rag on some poor douchebag missing out of Alta.

Originally Posted by LeeLau

I'd post more pictures Stan and keep this thread alive but people on this site are internet keyboard jackoff hacks that really aren't interested in big lines because they can't possibly conceive of anything outside their podunk little bumps - they'd rather rag on some poor douchebag missing out of Alta.

haha, lots of stupid stuff lately. kind of repetitive and embarassing for this place. i think there's lots of lurkers that appreciate threads like this.it can be intimidating, especialy when good stoke gets bashed. its fun watching what these amazing skiers can do.probably never do lines like these but fun to dream, so BUMP in the hopes of more greatness

ps; good link as well Stan. looks like challenging conditions

The forum was pathetic all year. Usually its just summer.

Here's the S face of Sir Sandford from a picture I took a while back from Rogers Pass. Alta can suck its dick

don't let the turkeys get you down, lee. you've consistently posted the best stuff since i've been here. it would suck worse if you quit. i love the big lines.

Originally Posted by LeeLau

The forum was pathetic all year. Usually its just summer.

Here's the S face of Sir Sandford from a picture I took a while back from Rogers Pass. Alta can suck its dick

ok cool. this thread needed that pic. it just towers above everything. thanks, it was hard to tell what was below the roll in the vid

Here's Tusk, Irvine and Shipton which are on the other side of Clemenceau. We skied from 40ft below Irvine getting stopped by facets





Clemenceau S face from the Tusk Glacier. The W face is in the skyline. The N face is behind.

http://www.leelau.net/2007/fairymead...orncolpano.jpg - big ass pano of all Bryce, Clemenceau from Ironman - Unicol in the Adamants area so maybe not so good to embed. I remember being so proud that I scouted an iceclimb line off Pioneer Peak and skied it. That's sweet f all compared to some of these other lines

The lurkers certainly appreciate these TRs. I was on top of Clemenceau in the late 90s. Only skinny skis though. Beautiful spot.
Thanks for posting. Brings back some great memory's.

Great line but that entire area looks to have serious, untapped potential.

Here's one. North Face of Tour Ronde. Skied by it in 2006. Not a huge face but looks nicely steep. I wonder if it has been skied. This is near the south end of the Jordan Range of the Monashees traverse:

Saw this on Biglines. The rockies have been going off this spring. This, Mt. Bryce, Sandford ect ect.

The lack of interest on TGR seems kind of fucked up. Too many blowhards that can't think outside of their own pathetic resort bump.

Originally Posted by adimmen

Great line but that entire area looks to have serious, untapped potential.

Our weather was shit but I took pics of this

Irvine and Shipton - http://www.leelau.net/2005/clemencea...lanepano05.jpg .Look at Shipton's N face. Windfucked at top but big face

W face of Shipton here - http://www.leelau.net/2005/clemencea...eastview11.jpg

neat. makes me wonder what else has been going down, both this year by others, and by these guys in the past...I would love to read more stories!