The Outfitting Year in Pictures on the Wild Coast

Ardent said:
We have some huge glaciers on the north coast but try to stay off them, risky with clients. If we have to put on crampons and buddy up then we're probably going too far with clients.

Still probably one of the most beautiful natural features you can experience, is a spectacular blue glacier as you well know. Solid rivers, neat sleeping beside them and listening.
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Yeah probably not a good idea. There are likely not too many clients that are equipped or prepared for self rescue from a crevasse. It's probably south of where you are but climbing Mount Waddington with an overland bushwhack approach from the coast is on my bucket list.

Ardent said:
Great pic from the Andes in the next post! Where did you guys go? I climbed Huayna Potosi in Bolivia back in 2003 or so to join the 6,000m club. Sounds like you guys went a good bit further.
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The picture was on Coropuna in Peru. It tops out at +/- 6400 metres depending on ice thickness.

Prior to the climbing we did a 6 day Kayak trip down the Cotahuasi river through continuous class 3 to 5 rapids for 120km and explored dozens of Inca and Wari ruins that are only accessible by kayak or chopper. The "Cota" is reportedly the deepest runnable canyon (11,000 ft+) in the world and has only been run about 20 or 25 times since the first descent by National Geographic in the early 90s.

Yours truly in the middle of a class 5 called "River Right for Your Life"



Camped in the bottom of the canyon amongst the ruins of an Inca village:



The world truly is an incredible place with far too many things to see and do in one lifetime. Hell I probably couldn't even see all I want in just BC. Thanks for posting your pics they are awesome.
 
Excellent thread - excellent pictures - thanks for posting Angus.

I've been looking for one of those Tyto 1.1 knives had no idea what they were called or who made them so thanks for the name going to order one with an orange sheath and a load of spare blades.

I'm definitely missing being in the remote wilderness areas of BC its been 8 years now since I worked solo out in the bush.

I really have to get my act together and get back out there again...
 
My hat off to you and your wife Species! Those are exactly the kind of proper deep adventures that tug at my heartstrings. I have an urge to canoe the navigable length of the Amazon, but that takes retirement time and may no longer physically be able to hack it. Maybe my boys will take an interest when they're in their late teens, that'd be an amazing trip.

When younger and before kids I did several long South America trips but focused on Amazon forays with a taste of climbing out of La Paz before heading down to Santa Cruz. We're blessed here in BC indeed too, I'll never see even just all the hunting territory if I was at it every day til I died.
 
Camp Cook said:
Excellent thread - excellent pictures - thanks for posting Angus.

I've been looking for one of those Tyto 1.1 knives had no idea what they were called or who made them so thanks for the name going to order one with an orange sheath and a load of spare blades.

I'm definitely missing being in the remote wilderness areas of BC its been 8 years now since I worked solo out in the bush.

I really have to get my act together and get back out there again...
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Thanks Cam for the kind words, know prospecting has taken you to many interesting corners of BC few see. I'm hoping to do some Steelhead scouting with the floatplane on a lake / river system we haven't tried this month, new ground always gets the tingle going... and an excuse to go there, be it fishing or minerals. :)
 
leveractionjunkie said:
Angus you are an all around class act and one hell of a great representative, both of your industry and hunters on the whole. May you have many continued years of business success and adventure. Enjoy your family and all the riches of life.
Thanks for sharing it all with us.
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That is far too kind to accept but I appreciate the compliment lever.

rar said:
very nice pictures .
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Thanks, an awful lot of time encapsulated in these brief pics. Lots of stories that pics cannot tell, not so sure about the picture being worth a thousand words.

samdunc said:
Beautiful stuff!!
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Thanks Sam- and if you ever find yourself with an M70 .375 H&H to loose gimme a shout! :d
 
Species8472 said:
Yeah probably not a good idea. There are likely not too many clients that are equipped or prepared for self rescue from a crevasse. It's probably south of where you are but climbing Mount Waddington with an overland bushwhack approach from the coast is on my bucket list.



The picture was on Coropuna in Peru. It tops out at +/- 6400 metres depending on ice thickness.

Prior to the climbing we did a 6 day Kayak trip down the Cotahuasi river through continuous class 3 to 5 rapids for 120km and explored dozens of Inca and Wari ruins that are only accessible by kayak or chopper. The "Cota" is reportedly the deepest runnable canyon (11,000 ft+) in the world and has only been run about 20 or 25 times since the first descent by National Geographic in the early 90s.

Yours truly in the middle of a class 5 called "River Right for Your Life"



Camped in the bottom of the canyon amongst the ruins of an Inca village:



The world truly is an incredible place with far too many things to see and do in one lifetime. Hell I probably couldn't even see all I want in just BC. Thanks for posting your pics they are awesome.
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Awesome pics!

How did the Inca access the area having (presumably) neither kayaks nor choppers.

Lots of stuff to see in SA off the beaten path.
 
kronald said:
Your selling your hunting area? I saw some of your pictures on an add? My cousins are looking, they're on the island.
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For many reasons it's better to be listed right now. But it's a very long process and I just reviewed my licence for another five years, non-refundable, so not planning on anything happening soon. :)

MiG25 said:
Awesome pics!

How did the Inca access the area having (presumably) neither kayaks nor choppers.

Lots of stuff to see in SA off the beaten path.
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Would have been trails that likely eroded away, my wife and I have hiked portions of them and they rivaled the Romans for their roads. And, they were tougher than us modern folks!
 
MiG25 said:
Awesome pics!

How did the Inca access the area having (presumably) neither kayaks nor choppers.

Lots of stuff to see in SA off the beaten path.
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The Inca built a trail network into the canyon that fell into disuse after the Spanish killed them off. As Angus mentioned between erosion and being a seismically active area the trails were gone in few generations.

Pics from the same trip of Inca remains exposed by erosion and/or landslide:



 
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I'm not trying to single you out, just an FYI. This thread already got cleaned up once by the mods due to some very "persistent" questioning by another member. I think the OP said about as much as he wants on the topic. Let's leave this thread for pics please.

kronald said:
Maybe Im missing the point, But your areas listed for sale but your not selling lol!?
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kronald said:
Maybe Im missing the point...
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Yes, you are... and tell your alter-ego "69firebird" to take care of his own business...

Two posts since 2014 and both on this thread... yeah, no agenda in that... you went back to an old profile to further your agenda... well it has been reported...
 
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Mik123 said:
I'm not trying to single you out, just an FYI. This thread already got cleaned up once by the mods due to some very "persistent" questioning by another member. I think the OP said about as much as he wants on the topic. Let's leave this thread for pics please.
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Same guy, Hoyt has a sharp eye, and thank you for that. I'm sure we'd get along fine over coffee but the internet is a strange place.

Out locally getting the plane ready for the season, and boating in supplies next week.

 
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