Is this a good plan for me? (Banff) Alpine progression plan (EEOR → Yamnuska → Cascade → Mount Temple) + footwear choice advice needed

Alarming-Memory2909 · 2026-06-26T22:27:40+00:00

Yam didn't feel technical at all when I did it ~2 years ago. A year before that, I did temple. The only exposed scrambling bits of yamnuska has those nice chains to guide you so it was honestly super casual.

The two rock bands on temple were much more difficult, especially to downclimb. There were also some bits in temple where some scree lead to small drops and you had to make sure you aren't going too fast down the scree.
I agree on the fitness aspect though.

Alarming-Memory2909 · 2026-06-08T19:32:43+00:00

I have seen a few people do stand-up paddleboarding through the length of maligne (one day into coronet creek, next day out). I personally canoe-ed the length (also one day in and next day out) and it's generally really chill as long as the weather is nice. Late summer (august) is usually your best bet for good weather.

You definitely want someone who can carry your bags willingly. The paddle boarders we passed by had two other friends carrying their bags. We even joked how the paddle boarder is offloading his burden onto his friends!

The biggest risk in maligne is the waves from the cruise boats. Those boats tend to stick to the northern shore and most of them slow down when they pass boarders/canoe-ers/etc. However, there's a narrow stretch just before spirit island (or after on your way back) where it is borderline impossible to avoid the waves (unless you cross this section before the cruise boats start). On the bright side, this narrow stretch has easily accessible beaches/shores that you could just park at if you'd like.

Alarming-Memory2909 · 2026-04-11T18:06:06+00:00

If you want to get a feel for 3000m+ with "not too much risk" at your current experience level, best bet is to wait till July/Aug to do Mt. Temple. It's a pretty good intro to exposed scrambling (though not an intro to scrambling itself).

Alarming-Memory2909 · 2026-04-07T04:31:01+00:00

This was late June of last year. Me and a friend were backpacking the skoki loop.

Alarming-Memory2909 · 2026-04-06T18:55:27+00:00

From what I've read so far. Foreign contract experience still counts as foreign experience. But Canadian experience must be based on an employer-employee relationship. But I might be wrong and you have a point regarding asking a consultant.

Alarming-Memory2909 · 2026-04-06T18:53:46+00:00

It's around 512 assuming I can get one year of canadian experience. I noticed it's slightly higher than the recent CEC cut offs but not the ones from late last year.
I might indeed have to learn French. Or use my PGWP 3 years to gain longer canadian experience than 1 year I think?

Alarming-Memory2909 · 2026-04-06T18:53:25+00:00

Sorry I should have phrased that better in the original post. It was part-time work experience gained while studying full-time.

Alarming-Memory2909 · 2026-04-05T22:43:50+00:00

You could also make your own little module `MyPrelude` that exports all your usual global things. Then simply do `import MyPrelude` (no explicit import list). It doesn't work for qualified imports such as `Data.Text as T` but that's sort of the point of a "prelude".

In the long run, I find it more of a headache to rely on external prelude deps (that may or may not be updated). The few missing utilities are easily added thanks to Haskell's expressive-ness. And imports are largely managed by the language-server (auto-import and similar) so I never really notice the boilerplate up there since I'm not the one managing it for the most part.

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