Weekend Whipper: Swinging Trad Fall on Stout Rockies Mixed Climb

Readers, please send your Weekend Whipper videos, information, and any lessons learned to Anthony Walsh, awalsh@outsideinc.com. 

This week’s whipper comes to you from the Great White North, a place where winter persists well into spring—if that makes sense.

Zach Colbran was projecting the sandbagged classic Lowe Impact, a beautiful gear-protected quartzite pitch beside Louise Falls. Lowe Impact begins steeply in a corner before traversing hard right to a hanging ice dagger. Colbran said he and two friends had been working the line as a group and had been taking smaller falls while attempting redpoints.

“I knew I had a really bomber #2 Camalot in the corner, and the fall would be fairly clean, so I committed to the traverse without placing anything,” he wrote to Climbing. “I almost made it to the ice before blowing it. Haha.”

Although it was a lot of air, Colbran was uninjured in the fall and pink pointed Lowe Impact soon after, the culmination of a fun mini-project this winter.

Happy Friday, and be safe out there this weekend. Thanks to Jon Walsh for the video.

Watch more Weekend Whippers:

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