Got an email from Garry Phillips in Canada, and some photos below:

Hi there John
Hope all is well.
Can you make up a page for our road trip on the sarvo please, ill send photos through soon. Here is a little writing though

Well we have been on the road now for 3.5 weeks. We managed to climb some great ice and mixed routes in the Canadian Rockies. High lightsd for us werr Polar Circus 5 Whitemans falls 5+ and a heap of mixed routes up to M8. Also a load of other waterfalls, but to many to name.
However the avalanche conditions on the northern slopes prevented some risk so we decided to bail early and head to indian creek.
This place is rad, splitter cracks every where. Its good to be back on warm rock . At the moment we are both preparing ourselves for yosemite, trying my best on all crack types. Off widths the hardest. Man im glad i have the big green cam!
We are camping in the desert its so special, all the stars, the towers and the howling dogs at night. Not to mention the warm camp fires. Last night there was a sand storm, we got covered in sand and then later it hailed!
We ticked some super classics here all ready supercrack, 3am crack, incredible hand crack, scarface etc etc. Its just so good.
Scarface was a bit of a battle being tight hands, but i was psyched to onsighted it.
I wish all of you back home could be here to see it. The cracks are like they have been lazer cut, either side of them is smooth blood red
walls. Its so good. One of the hard parts is deciding between simon and i who goes for the onsight!
any way take care all
garry

Photos

six shooters desert towers at sunset
simon warming up on perfect corner route
warm weather no more ice ahhhhh
sunset and playing around at campsite
carlsberg column
one of the six shooters
drinking tea on polar circus
campsite with bridget jack towers behind
Camp fire
puma g24 fingers to tips crux at end
simon leading last pitch polar circus chandallier hard ice
should be here jake my friend
scarface grade 22 insane route ring locks and tight hands
simon on classic grade 20
Garry on polar circus at night
Two happy boys
Simon on second pitch of polar circus
Mixed rock and ice climbing
Happy to have made it, blood on face from falling ice
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3 Comments

  1. Jon Nermut AUTHOR

    Some more from Garry:

    High there
    Back in town after 3 days in the desert. We are having a great time. Managed to get a few grade 24 onsights on cracks now! Took some good falls , bent the axle on one micro cam but it held (fingers to tips splitter, face in). Its rad climbing on the gear at the moment, learning the crack and gear sizes by feel. Simon and i also managed a few 25 redpoits on the cracvks as well. Tomorrow we are going to try some harder ones. May be super cat of the desert!
    To all those back home id highly recommend this place as for a road trip. Its cheap being here, the people are friendly and the weather (touch wood) is perfect. Between 17 to 24 degrees.
    There are also so many climbs from finger tips to chimneys! the protection is also so good (ie. not flaring) After all this there is a bolted abseil for fast descents. One thing though they mainly stop after 30 meters, this is strange because really there is way more climbing above!
    May be though its to protect the vegetation on top! any way take care all
    garry and simon

  2. Jon Nermut AUTHOR

    Added a bunch more photos sent from Garry and Simon in the desert, check em out above.

  3. dean rollins

    jealous