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Family gathering at Hannah's house in Melville, Johannesburg - Copy_of_IMG_8139.JPG
Carol, Katie, Nicole, Robin and Lindsay Godfrey - DSC03445.jpg
Jan Hough, Dad, Hannah, Martin, Dave Shipley, Kim Hough and Simon at Webersburg - DSC03456.jpg
Dad's 80th birthday lunch at 96 Winery Road, near Somerset West - IMG_4750.jpg
Hannah, martin and Dad at 96 Winery Road - IMG_8148.jpg
Webersburg manor house and the Helderberg, near Somerset West - IMG_8159.jpg
Simon at Webersburg - IMG_8162.jpg
Webersburg manor house - IMG_8165.jpg
Dave Shipley, Jan Hough, Dad and Simon at breakfast at Webersburg - IMG_8169.jpg
Webersburg Manor House - IMG_8177.jpg
Simon and Ismo in the pool at Webersburg - IMG_8180.jpg
The kitchen at Webersburg Manor House - IMG_8182.jpg
Simon and Ismo demonstrating their synchronized swimming skills at Webersburg - IMG_8205.jpg
Hannah at Cape Town airport - IMG_8206.jpg
Jack Lotter, Ismo and Simon at Jack's apartment in Sea Point - IMG_8214.jpg
Ismo and Simon in Sea Point - IMG_8216.jpg
Adele McCann on Jacob's Ladder, Table Mountain - IMG_8219.jpg
Martin on Jacob's Ladder, Table Mountain - IMG_8221.JPG
Simon, Martin and Dad at Avontuur Restaurant - IMG_8222.jpg
Jean (McCallum) Verwey and Lorraine Mathewson at Avontuur Restaurant - Christmas-Day-_2_.jpg
Christmas Day 2010. On the left is Emily Kewley. Fran tore her ACL a few days earlier when skiing at Steamboat Springs (first ski run of the season, alas) and was hobbling around on crutches. - Christmas-Eve.jpg
Christmas Eve 2010. Our Anglo-Australian friend Emily Kewley (on the left) joined us for the occasion. The reindeer candelabra is a souvenir from Martin’s trip to Helsinki in the summer. - Black-Lake.jpg
Mike Walley hiking across Black Lake in RMNP on the way to climb the West Gully, January 2011; McHenry’s Peak in the background. - Grace-Falls.jpg
Gordon Laurens climbing Grace Falls in RMNP on a cold and windy January day. - IMG_8237.JPG
Rick at the Ouray Ice Park, March 2011 - IMG_8249.JPG
Rick hiking up to Billboard Peak at Silverton Mountain, March 2011 - IMG_8252.JPG
The view from Billboard Peak, Silverton Mountain, March 2011 - IMG_8261.JPG
Rick and the rest of our group about to start a descent at Silverton Mountain, March 2011 - IMG_8490.JPG
Rick hiking up Quandary Peak, May 2011 - IMG_8507.JPG
Rick descending Quandary Peak, May 2011. It had snowed a day or two earlier and we were treated to some of the best ski conditions of the season. 2011 was an La Nina year and the snowpack in Northern Colorado was more like mid-winter than late spring. - Arapaho-Traverse.jpg
John Christie and Gordon Laurens on the traverse between South and North Arapahoe peaks, June 2012 - IMG_8523.JPG
Gordon Laurens and McHenry’s Peak, RMNP, June 2011. We were hoping to climb the Big Mac Couloir (snow-filled gully up the centre of the peak) but the weather was too warm and all the snow was turning to slush. After a rope-length of climbing we retreated and as a consolation prize we hiked the descent route on the other side of the peak. - IMG_8595.JPG
Kurt Mensch about to ski down SquareTop Mountain, June 2011. Gray’s Peak and Torrey’s Peak on the horizon on the left. - IMG_8622.JPG
John Christie and Gordon Laurens on a rime-encrusted traverse between South and North Arapahoe peaks, June 2011 - June_2011_001.JPG
Martin, John Christie and Gordon Laurens on the way to Skywalker Couloir, Arapahoe Peak, June 2011 - May_2011_017.JPG
On my way to climb the Martha Couloir in RMNP with Mike Walley, May 2011 - May_2011_037.JPG
Martin climbing the Martha Couloir in RMNP, May 2011 - McHenrys.jpg
Gordon Laurens wading through slushy snow on the way up McHenry’s Peak, RMNP; Long’s Peak in the background. - IMG_8278_001.JPG
Storm Peak and the Grande Couloir (to the left of the peak). Silverton Mountain, March 2011. The previous day we hiked all the way up the couloir (1,500’ vertical) before descending. The colour and contrast in this image have been heavily Photoshopped so that you can see the ski tracks. - IMG_8419.JPG
In May 2011 Kurt Mensch and I went on a backcountry ski trip to the Chicago Basin in the San Juans. This was a rematch from the previous year when my ski bindings disintegrated just as we arrived at camp. Access to the area is via the Durango-Silverton railway (or a very long hike from the highway). - IMG_8433.JPG
Kurt Mensch on the ski in to Chicago Basin. - IMG_8438.JPG
The peaks of Chicago Basin – Sunlight peeking out on the left, Windom in the centre and Jupiter on the right. - IMG_8442.JPG
The peaks of Chicago Basin – Sunlight in the centre-left, Sunlight Spire in the centre and Windom on the right (in front of the sun) - IMG_8459.JPG
Kurt Mensch at the saddle between Sunlight and Sunlight Spire; Windom in the background - IMG_8471.JPG
Kurt Mensch on Sunlight; Eolus in the background - IMG_8481.jpg
Kurt Mensch skiing down to our camp in the Chicago Basin - IMG_8485.JPG
We had one good day of skiing at Chicago Basin, but the next day the weather turned against us. We tried to climb Mt. Jupiter (a peak that’s long been on Kurt’s to-do list) but retreated in the face of high winds and white-out conditions. We got back to our camp early in the day, and rather than spending a cold and damp night our tent we decided to make a frantic hike out to the DSRR railway to see if we could catch the afternoon train back to Durango and comfortable hotel room (there’s only one train each day). Here’s a rain-soaked Kurt back at the DSRR stop, happy to have made it back in time for the train. - IMG_0963.jpg
Martin at Chicago Basin, May 2011 - IMG_8629.jpg
On our flight to Seattle we had a nice view of the Liberty Ridge on Mt. Rainier. - IMG_8635.jpg
Sally Mizroch and Fran at the Ballard Farmers’ Market in Seattle - IMG_8638.jpg
Martin, Andrea Joubert and Fran at Andrea and Roy’s house in Issaquah, near Seattle - IMG_8649.jpg
Fran and Martin at the Vancouver waterfront - IMG_8655.jpg
Fran and Martin at Coal Harbour, Vancouver - IMG_8662.jpg
Martin and friends at Coal Harbour, Vancouver. The red figures are part of an installation called “Meeting” by the sculptor Wang Shugang. - IMG_8667.jpg
Fran and Karen Woo at Stanley Park, Vancouver - IMG_8674.JPG
Totem poles at Stanley Park, Vancouver - IMG_8679.jpg
Martin at Stanley Park, Vancouver. We rented bikes and went for a leisurely cycle around the waterfront. - IMG_8682.jpg
Karen Woo and Fran at Coal Harbour, Vancouver - IMG_8695.jpg
Fran in front of the Empress Hotel, Victoria, BC. The Empress is one of a chain of grand hotels built about a hundred years ago by the Canadian Pacific Railway, and is rather more imposing than the BC parliament building next door. - IMG_8717.JPG
Fran on the ferry from Victoria back to Vancouver, BC. - IMG_8737.jpg
Fran and Martin at Fremont Peak Park, Seattle, with the Olympic Mountains on the horizon. - P5221709.jpg
Alex (centre right), her coach Elizabeth (wearing black) and the rest of her synchronized swimming team at our home before the trip. - P6051715.jpg
Alex taking care of our lawn before we left home for a week. She was filling in for Rick who had a summer job at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. - P6291721.jpg
Fran and I made a rather rushed day trip to Victoria, BC. Here’s the inner harbour and the BC parliament building. - P6291731.jpg
Here we are doing the most touristy thing possible in Victoria, namely afternoon tea at the Empress Hotel. The sandwiches, scones and cakes were very nice, but the tea, alas, was made from rather ordinary tea-bags. And it’s best not to think of the price. - P7011756.jpg
Martin at Discovery Park, Seattle. - Aquateens.jpg
It wasn’t easy to get good photos of the synchronized swimming competition with my point-and-shoot camera, so here’s a montage of some low-resolution images of Alex and the rest of her team. In case you were wondering, the whole routine including lifts and jumps has to be accomplished without anyone touching the bottom of the pool. - SAM_9060.jpg
Fran and Martin at the Ballard Farmers’ Market in Seattle - Alex_Icarus.jpg
Alex climbing Icarus in Eldorado Canyon, Sept 2011. - Alex-Martin-Atlanta.jpg
Alex and Martin at the wedding of Martin’s colleague Kevin Reimer in Atlanta, October 2011. - Christmas-Eve.jpg
Martin, Fran, Rick and Alex with our friend Emily Kewley on Christmas Eve. - Flagstaff.jpg
Rick, his girlfriend Tate Reed and Fran in Flagstaff, AZ, October 2011. - Fran-Alex-Atlanta.jpg
Fran and Alex at Kevin Reimer’s wedding in Atlanta, October 2011. - IMG_0744.JPG
Rick at the start of the S. Kaibab trail, Grand Canyon, October 2011. - IMG_0782.JPG
Rick crossing the Colorado River at the base of the Grand Canyon, October 2011. - IMG_0817.JPG
Rick, Tate and Fran at the Desert View Watchtower, Grand Canyon, October 2011. - IMG_3842.JPG
Martin at the summit of the Third Flatiron, en route to climbing the “Top Ten” Flatirons in a day, an outing that he unwisely embarked on in 95+ degree heat in August. - IMG_8899.JPG
Alpine Club of Canada camp at the base of Mt. Tsar in the Canadian Rockies, where Martin spent a week in July 2011. This was one of the few days that the summit of Mt. Tsar was actually visible. - IMG_8971.JPG
The SW Corner of the Saber, a route in Rocky Mountain National Park that Martin climbed in August with Anders Fridberg. - IMG_9005.JPG
Alex on the way to a climb of Stairway to Heaven in the Flatirons, August 2011. - IMG_9037.JPG
Rick spent the summer working in Yellowstone Nat’l Park in Wyoming. In late August Martin drove up there to collect him and on their way back home they stopped to attempt a climb of the Grand Teton (in the background on the left). - IMG_9042.JPG
Martin on the way to the Grand Teton. - IMG_9044.JPG
Rick at the entrance to Garnet Canyon, on the way to the Grand Teton. The peak in the background is the Middle Teton, not the Grand. More than one party has headed up to the Middle Teton by mistake. - IMG_9048.JPG
Rick on the way to the Grand Teton, with Nez Perce and Cloudveil Dome in the background. - IMG_9067.JPG
Rick on the Lower Exum Ridge, Grand Teton, with the Middle Teton in the backgound. - IMG_9072.jpg
Rick at the top of the Lower Exum Ridge, Grand Teton, with the Middle Teton in the backgound. - Kieners.jpg
Martin on his way to a climb of Kiener’s Route on Long’s Peak (Rocky Mountain Nat’l Park) with Kurt Mensch in July 2011. - Merry-Christmas.jpg
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Alex and Rick at Vail, December 2011. Not much snow to be seen. - S-Kaibab-Trail.jpg
Martin hiking down the S. Kaibab trail, Grand Canyon, October 2011. - Snowy-October.jpg
The view from our back window after the first snowfall of the season, October 2011. - St-John-1.jpg
The view from the villa where Fran, Alex and Emily stayed in St. John. - St-John-2.jpg
Alex, Fran and Alex’s friend Emily Hawkins (on the left) in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, July 2011. - Tsar-Camp-1.jpg
Crossing the glacier at the base of Mt. Tsar, with the Clemenceau Icefield in the background. We retreated from half-way up Tsar on account of sloppy wet snow on top of steep, loose rock (normally the rock’s dry by this time of year). - Tsar-Camp-3.jpg
Flying out from Tsar camp; Mt. Shackleton in the background.