We're super psyched to have recently partnered up with Alpine Threadworks as Ambassadors and Product Testers for their lines of custom sewn mountain products. Clean, Functional and Durable has long been what our Guides look for in their packs and we're pumped to be able to work with the owner and chief designer, Neil Warren, on a line up of products you'll be seeing us put through their paces on our future programs. Cloud Nine Guides will also be providing demos of many of the packs in the Alpine Threadworks line up so that you can try before you purchase on any of our programs.

Jen Ormsbee and I had originally planned to attempt a big mixed alpine route just north of the Icefields Centre. Humble Horse on Mount Diadem would have been a great bet if it wasn't for the crazy hot temperatures we've had the last week or so, but avalanche and rockfall hazard would have been too much of a hazard to be reasonable and we needed an alternate venue.