It is 515am, after 4 days waking up early my body clock is wondering why I am not getting up to go climbing. I see pink clouds in the distance surrounding mount Yotei and the urge to go out is too great. I get dressed and go for a phenomenal trail run. It has snowed […]

The short version: 7:47 of climbing to reach the summit on our 3rd attempt this week. Great team work and excellent gear to make it through the icy parts towards the summit. The long version: we wake up at 345am, finish prepping our gear most of the backpacks have been prepared last night. We start […]

Nice day today, 5am wake up, 7am we are off on the trail after I forgot my poles at home and Pat and Xav went to pick them up while I kept the gear. Weather is overcast but a few rays of sun appear here and there. Amazing view as we gain in altitude. Quickly […]

Yesterday we had a long evening preparing the gear, planning the climb. The goal was to get close to the summit, camp one night, ski down the crater and back up and down tomorrow. Time on the mountain: 5:47 Ascent: 363m -> 1134 -> 363 Weather: overcast, cold -5 (with windchill prob -15) Mount Yotei […]

All packed, safety gear, food. 921am, Ready to go.

Xavier goes for an off-piste course while Patrick and I use the day to train, check the gear, check the snow conditions on Mount Yotei. We buy crampons for the split-snowboards, apparently it was icy on top of Mount Yotei a few days ago and without crampons we might not be able to finish the […]