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We Have Moved !!!!!

Canmore, Alberta December 20th, 2000

What a busy year we had - skiing in Colorado and Canada well into May , a great summer in Europe with over 17 weeks OnTop and upon return to the US in October we packed up the big U-Haul and made the long anticipated move north to Canada.

Our “primary” residence is now in Canmore, 15 minutes from Banff, with hundreds of kilometers mountain ranges in National and Provincial Parks in our new backyard: Banff, Jasper, Yoho, Bugaboos, Kananaskis, Kootenay just to name a few. Most importantly, we upgraded our living situation from Heather’s one bedroom basement suite to a great house (picture soon to come on this very page) with the most wonderful views of all the peaks that line the Bow Valley to the west of Canmore.

Winter has been rolling in with some delay this year - not at all in regards to the temperatures, but rather to snow. An unusual split in the jet stream over the pacific that lasted several weeks took most of the moisture that is usually B.C.-bound further south into Utah and Colorado - enjoy guys! It looks like we are now back to the normal pattern and the systems are rolling into the Selkirks and Monashee Mountains the way they are supposed to. The delay in snow accumulation will not have any effect on the ski touring that I have planned this year starting in April, but it sure did have an effect on my heli-ski guide work with CMH. We are now scheduled to open our Revelstoke operation on January 2nd, which is a full month later than originally planned. This is not all bad, because it gave us some more time for settling into our house and to do lots of ice climbing around here, since the conditions have been really shaping up well lately. Actually, more specifically, Heather settling and Jorg ice climbing.

This unforeseen free time will also give me the opportunity to add some more scheduled trips to our 2001 program, which will show up on the web page within the next few weeks. Among those new trips: Ice climbing weeks in Banff National Park, non-technical 12 day hike in the German and Austrian Alps with visits to the 4 Castles of “mad” Bavarian King Ludwig II, 1 week glaciated peaks traverse in the Monte Rosa Range in Switzerland/Italy, 13 days best Via ferratas around Cortina, Italy, 6 day hike with camping in the Canadian Rockies, 10 days biking in the Provence, 12 days rock climbing in Southern France, 7 day Ski Touring trip in a backcountry hut in the Selkirks etc.

Heather is also currently doing some work for CMH while applying for teaching positions. We are planing to be back in Colorado for most of May and be back in Europe for the summer again.

Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions regarding our program our just to chat and catch up, either by e-mail or with our new toll free number 1-866 609 2146.

Have a very merry Christmas and a happy new year,

Jorg & Heather Wilz

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