Canadian Rockies // The Wapta Traverse
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- Опубликовано: 9 мар 2022
- Starting at Bow Pass and working it’s way down to Peyto Lake then to the Peyto Glacier and onto the Wapta Icefield. The Wapta Traverse winds its way through the Waputik Mountains, onto and across several glaciers such as Vulture, Balfour and Niles. All together the travers covers 30 miles of Canadian scenic beauty with about 8000ft of climbing. We considered doing it in a day but I was unaware of the Canadian’s propensity for generosity and was worried we wouldn’t be able to hitch a ride back to our car in the dark. So we spent a very uncomfortable night at the Duncan hut with nothing but our hopes and dreams to keep us warm. When we did reach the road we were instantly picked up and quickly got 2 rides back to our car. Canada is awesome.
SPECTACULAR, in my opinion, "thee" best documented adventure in all the years that I have enjoyed watching Mediocre Amateur
I thought the same.
@@JamieMiles_southmainmuse was here to say the same, one of the best
Stay outta Canada ya bums! We like our mountains quiet, not overrun like yours! And quit promoting unprepared traverses! Other than that great video, love ya guys!
With all the garbage there is on YT these days, why don't these guys have a million subscribers? It's a crime.
I was thinking the same thing. Great work guys!
I did the Wapta traverse almost 40 years ago. Interestingly there was very little standing water, no river crossings at the beginning, and I don't remember the ice cave, either. The mountain peaks were distinctive and memorable. Heavy snow covered everything and we stayed in a quick snow cave one night. The most concerning part was the telemark descent through the trees at the end, where fatigue and tricky snow made us all worry about falling. Thanks for the memories!
Zero visibility on a glacier is nothing compared to the sheer terror of the conversations you might have to endure if you end up in the wrong person's truck.
God bless the day that I came across this channel
Just catching up on some of your videos that I’ve missed and wow. The adventures you guys go on and the quality of your videos are unreal. Seriously my favorite channel on RUclips, and way better than anything on network tv. Thank you for sharing and for the continued inspiration. Keep on crushing it.
Great video, and an awesome adventure. Very fun to see some of the traverse with better vis than when I did it. A note please though is the huts are unheated - other than Bow - and are meant to be wild sheltered and only as warm as the number of people in them warming them up. Using the propane is intended for cooking only - it is flown up to the hut. Also the propane will crank up the moisture in the hut. Please don't lead people astray with that description of warming the hut as much as you can with the cook stove.
Why? Who built them?
@@cooperpayne built by volunteers with fundraised money by the Alpine Club of Canada. They have to fly with a helicopter that fuel up there to use with the cooking stoves. Propane isn't constantly resupplied. Also when you burn propane you get a molecule of H2O for every molecule of propane burnt, really gets the hut humid and gear will not dry well.
You guys do not understand how lucky you were with the weather I know some who have been up 4-5 times for multi day trips and never saw any blue, well done
7:36 is such an incredible shot
Beautiful area, a 77 year old man can only watch a great video. Damn beautiful!
Even though this is only a few hours from my house (Edmonton) as I watch this...its a world away.
Wifey is very much happy now that you both are very much safe and alive.
Thanks sharing this epic and spectacular video.1🥰😍🤩💯❤
Amazed ... at how little snow and ice are left up there ? Amazed - that you were so lucky with the weather. But it was snowing while you left Duncan hut ? Amazed at how little gear and food you guys carried. You pulled it off OK, by going very fast with light packs... But did you ever wish you could have stayed up there to enjoy the high scenery for a few more days ? Yrs ago, I was a grad student at U Calgary - I did part of that trip, using Norwegian wood skis, Swix ski wax, wool pants, Norwegian leather boots. That was before the era of plastic boots and climbing skins. We visited the old Bow Hut, Peyto Hut and Balfour Hut. There was so much more ice and snow... and lots of trail breaking. A snowstorm arrived, so we did Peyto to Bow Hut in a snow storm, by compass bearings. On a different route, J fell into a crevasse up to his armpits. Very scary. He was roped, and so I held him OK with my ice axe - but then what ? I only had a few ice screws, Gibbs ascenders and Prussics... On another route, Y almost fell through a snow bridge. the bridge collapse under the heels of his skis, while K and I fell down on the other side and dug our elbows into the snow. Very scary. My goggles were all frosted, couldn't see... K had packed a little pup tent - so we sat inside the tent, cooled down, calmed down, ate chocolate bars and waited for a lull in the blizzard. Crazy G had taken a CAC course on crevasse rescue ? He told us about being lowered down into a dripping wet crevasse and hanging there, swinging in his harness. waiting for hours, getting soaked by the drips, while the team figured out how to haul him up again. It helps to have lots of people and some pulleys and snow stakes ? I think you guys were very lucky.... But you took great risks... especially by not bringing enough food or sleeping bags to wait out a storm inside a hut or inside a snow cave ? \
Did you bring shovels and snow saws to make a cave or igloo ?
You should watch Mountain Rescue Season One episode One for views of a deep crevasse near Mont Blanc.
The mountaineers equivalent of cardboards - LOL, I love it 😜
what’s this about an avalanche? such a gloriously glamorous word for sure. Be careful!
I love you danny💕
Wow! I hiked the Wapta in August 99, but there was 3' of fresh snow and we all put our feet in the guide's bootprints. We stopped at all the huts including a couple extra days for peak bagging. That was a week and you guys blitzed it to Duncan in a day!
Lovely video; brings back memories.
PS. Having the hut to yourselves, nobody would complain if you piled sleeping mats over yourselves.
Came here from the Xander's recommendation and OMG, where you've been all my life? Love your style, cinematography, background music, montage; everything. You're amazing. Happy to meet you!
Stunning! Nothing 'mediocre' about this trip though - but I won't quibble about the name and will just enjoy the awesomeness
This Is MAGNIFICO , great experience hundread of likes
Glad you enjoyed my hut.
Love the new editing flair and the new music. As always the content itself is wonderful as well. Keep up the good work.
Love those super-wide shots of your friend in the distance. Really gives a better scope of the topography when there's a human in the shot.
There is one constant in each video. A guy who loves nature and loves traversing it.
*LOVE* the pith helmet reference!!!!
I absolutely love this channel. Started with Kraig Adams. Found my way here. You guys are phenomenal.
One of the Best Remote Wilderness Discovery Adventures on youtube . . . you really outdid yourself on this one . . . " A TRUE WILDERNESS CLASSIC" . . . .
Always appreciate the commentary regarding risk assessment. Really helps fellow MAs
Totally awesome! Great footage. . . but OMG be careful, it may not always work out. . . I narrowly escaped a "bad ending" recently and only foolhardy luck and rock climbing skill got me out alive. I'm backing off a bit. It did look like you guys were in control on this one but darkness in a white out doing glacier travel in new terrain, yikes. . . incredible job!
Best edited video by far. Some shots looked like out of interstellar
Hey Mediocre’s keep up
The great adventures
You inspired my cousin ‘s next Vacation
This summer in Switzerland.
Changing your mindset from intimidated to awe and appreciation is a powerful tool. Another great vid. I always love seeing what you guys are doing and adding it to my own list. Currently training for my own R2R2R bid. Hopefully I only puke half as much as Danny did.
I know rim to rim is not uncommon, but I thought only masochistic Mediocre Amateurs do R2R2R (out and back). Hope it goes well. I'll be floating by Phantom Ranch in October and will have to stop in to get my lemonade and mail post cards.
God, that was so hard to watch. The way he powered through that heat exhaustion was unreal. And kinda unsettling. Always inspiriting though.
@@joshf-o6696 on the FB R2R2R group, there are multiple people doing it every week (maybe less in mid summer). I’ve been working up the courage - still feel undertrained but know that there will never be a perfect time so just have to pull the trigger and go do it, maybe in October/November.
For me, it was about going with the right person. We're going to try to beat the heat by going in April. The main down side being that the north rim will still be closed. I'll try to film as much as I can after the wheels come off. Lol
Just finished my video. We had pretty much perfect conditions on April 10. ruclips.net/video/3xj7w68IzLk/видео.html
Whatever you guys have is absolutely wonderful but at the same time there is no cure for it either... stay safe.
2:48 "we're gonna have to do some dangerous skiing through the trees" Thats like 90% of what the east coast backcountry looks like
Nice, thanks for sharing. I’m adding this to my list.
I think this is the most gear I've ever seen you guys carry.
Great adventuring and filmmaking. A Mediocre Amateur Certified Classic.
These last two are definitely your best in the last year!
I’m later to comment- but after watching a lot of mediocrity, this has to be your breakthrough video. Seriously, this was amazing and I know nothing of sking or navigating life-threatening cold. That was some of the most beautiful landscape, I’ve ever seen. When you are old - even older than myself-- you can look at this with your grandkids and say, “I was one crazy MotherF’er.” 😂
Nice, have fond memories of simular experiance.
beyond gnarly, per usual
Coming from a guy who is native to northeast Afghanistan which has tremendous Hindu Kush mountains, the entire Ice Fields Parkway drive is as good as it gets. From Mount Temple and Morraine Lake to Lake Louise and Bow Lake or the Athabasca Glacier, this is an amazing place, winter or summer.
Multiwaptauniverse...it's awesome..thanks.
Your sprinter van is so badass!
Hats off to those friendly Canadians for giving you rides so quickly. The only time I've had to hitchhike back to my car was after doing a few days backpacking in the backcountry in Yellowstone. I took almost an hour and a half to get a ride and I was only going 15 miles.
Gonna need a ride in the Beartooths this summer. Hope for better luck!
The views! Amazing!!!
keep up the awesome content you guys keep me hyped up to keep going out in the mountains and doing bigger and cooler things. Also, It's always great to sit down and watch one of your guys videos.
Disappearing fast . Great video.
Definitely one of the best adventures so far. Would be awesome to see you guys tackle something difficult in the northeast like Mount Katahdin in winter. Thanks for all the inspiration material!
Very nice to see the traverse and experience it again from newby's eyes..great video and ENERGY from you fellows, ....definitely your best mediocrity so far! Impressive effort ! Cheers!
WOW!!!! That ice-cave was incredible !!
I wondered if anyone was going to comment on the misuse of the hut propane. Otherwise, nicely done.
unreal landscapes
Tremendous production
New Zealand Mountain huts all have blankets ... sure you don't know what smelly climbers been wrapped in them but they are very welcome for fast and light people. (I'm neither now). Ski touring by proxy. Well done guy's
Absolutely one of the best ever MA videos. Incredible scenery and videography. Wow.
All your videos are unreal
This was definitely one of your most ‘on brand’ adventures and one of the most awesome. Great camera work and editing.💪🙏
This was pretty badass being in the middle of nature at it's greatest
A favorite video. I start my mornings with your adventures. You guys are super inspiring .
One of my favorite adventures. Stunning views!
Thanks for a great video!
Video quality is awesome 👌
"I wonder what made those mounds!"... as he is standing in a glacial moraine...
I love the music!!
What a paradise for ski mountaineering!
Very very nice video after great masha allah
second vid I have seen of y'all.....I wanna go one time !
Love that the last few uploads have been from my backyard!! You picked some good ones for when you were here.
Beautiful !
Done this traverse four times plus the Bow-Yoho plus shorter trips based out of the Bow Hut, and I have to say, your snow was "interesting" - lol.
Love your content.
Spectacular!
This was fantastic!
So good - keep up the good work guys!
Once again an awesome video and you guys are awesome
One of your best, thank you
My Dad Bod needed this
Great video !!! Thank you for showing this spectacular tour or traverse 💪👍🍀👏👏👏👏 kind greetings from Austria
This was amazing! So inspiring and honestly thank you!!! It's just a joy to watch these adventures. Can't say thank you enough!
Absolutely incredible.
Superb! Thank you
Great footage, guys. Just awesome!
You two are a great duo, I really enjoyed this!
Wow! Such an awesome adventure!
I love your videos!! amazing, the editing is great. and I got hyped every second in the video for the views and the remote place in the mountains, great job!!
So dope! Great work as always
I definitely was a little nervous when you tried to open the door the first time and it wouldn't open! Great video as usual!
Love this stuff!
You guys live an awesome life!!!
Always makes my day to see a new MA video posted. Awesome trip. Cheers!!
You guys are great! Keep coming up to Canada and doing these kinda adventures :)
INCREDIBLE video. So well edited.
Dude...I KNOW after that Ice cave, you guys were WAY out...probably way way farther out than you originally thought with the gear you brought That is REAL adventuring dudes. Legit awesome in every way
Wow! What an adventure! That ice cave was amazing! Thanks for another great video.
Absolutely beautiful, one of my favorites from you guys! Excellent job on the production!
Wow dude ! that looks Epic !
Awesome to see you guys came up here to Canada! You guys are massive inspiration for me in ski touring. Cheers, Stay safe!
That ice cave was spectacular. Great adventure.
Great job guys! Amazing scenery and vlog skills!
Dude this was absolutely rad! Well done and mad respect! I couldn’t even fathom what it must’ve been like to be there!
You guys smashed it. Great Vid! Love the Rockies!
U guys are amazing.