Sunday Morning I was awake at 5am. I don't like 5am. It's sort of offensively early - the kind of thing I'll do for a ski objective but otherwise normally avoid.

The reason for the painfully early morning is that I had plans with Katherine and Sheena that I already knew weren't going to work. The plan was to climb The Finger on Napsihu Ridge - Katherine's current nemesis route. It's twelve pitches of moderate climbing with a two hour approach so to give ourselves ample day light the plan was to start early. The problem though, was that the forecast went to shit and Sheena was out of cell reception so we had to meet up with her on the edge of Kananaskis anyway.

Sure enough, we met up and immediately decided that we were all in agreement that none of us felt like trying a long committing objective on a day when there was a high chance of lightning in the area, so we headed to the Rocky Mountain Bagel Company to load up on coffee and come up with a Plan B.

We spent a few minutes coming up with ideas of possible objectives, then checking the closest weather model and rejecting it as being unrealistic. But then a thought occurred. The upshot to being up so early though is that we had enough time to do basically anything. So why not try something huge?

Heart Line is a brand new monster line on Heart Mountain. 1.1km long (yep, we're measuring a climbing route in kilometers), 17 pitches of climbing plus four scrambling sections and graded at 5.9 A1. The aid portion is just a bolt ladder, so we didn't need any other gear, so 60m rope (or two) and a rack of 12 draws was all of the gear we needed.

A quick check of the forecast indicated that while there was likely going to be some rain in the afternoon, the forecast wasn't predicting any lightning. We could work with a forecast like that.