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By Ueli Steck
October 20, 2007:
I am back from a good day of climbing. finally we had dinner in the Pub in Canmore. The weather is still Canadian, snow and wind... But anyway we are still motivated and we went to Riptide. A good hard Ice climb. The climb just like the description written in the Guidebook: The route is more psychologically than technically difficult. Long sections of snow covered, hollow and thin ice is normal. Ok and then we had spindrifts all the time... We were both totally wet on the end of the Day. But happy we climbed another great route in the Rockies. Tomorrow we will go back, we have seen today a great mixed Line to the right of Rocket Man on Mount Patterson. We go and have a look if we can open a new nice Mixed Route.
October 23, 2007:
Sunday we climbed the first 3 Pitches of this new line. Its a wonderful mixed line. Quite hard. It took us 11 hours to go up and do three pitches.
We are quite happy the upper part looks like ice and after [that] we come in to Rocket Man, a route thats to the right. So we have done all the work and now the next time we have to free climb the whole route.
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