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Touring Tetrahedron (bike+ski)
It was the week before the Easter long weekend, and a ski touring VOC trip to Tetrahedron that I was planning on going on had just been canceled for reasons of snow conditions (for fairly good reason). However, my weekend … Continue reading
Posted in Cycle, Huts, Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged bike, bikepacking, car-free, overnight, ski touring, skiing, Small Group, Snow, Sunshine Coast, Weekend, Winter
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Cambria Icefield
The Thirteen Pass Route follows the iconic Skyline Trail from its start near Jasper to near its end, but before the Skyline’s final descent to Maligne Lake, the Thirteen Pass Route breaks off and connects to the Eight Pass Route, … Continue reading
Pacific Spirit Ultramarathon
Date: March 24th, 2024 Participants: Noah Macdonald, Alex Beauchemin, Ine Østmo, Maiya Callister, Sean McKay TRIP REPORT: On March 24th, 2024, five VOCers set out to cover every trail in Pacific Spirit Park in a single push. No one in … Continue reading
Posted in Other, Trip Reports
Tagged Pacific Spirit, Running, trail running, ultramarathon
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Mellow lines at Cerise Creek (Steep Lines at Steep Creek Vol. 5)
With a beautiful March 23rd weekend forecast predicting better ski conditions up high, our small but mighty “Steep Lines at Steep Creek” group of four (Alex Barth, Flavia Caprez, Ana Ciocoiu, and myself, Erik Reimers) made the decision to switch … Continue reading
Posted in Huts, Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged Keiths Hut, Mt Matier, Ski Mountaineering, ski touring, Small Group, Spring
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It’s Now or Neve (Reflections On A Single Push Traverse)
March 24, 2024 The Build-Up The Garibaldi Neve traverse needs no introduction. This 41 km gauntlet has been run by many a VOCer, often before they really know what they’re getting into with ski touring. The high alpine icefield demands … Continue reading
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Phelix Demolition
Realizing I wrote this article for the journal but never put it on the website, so here you go! An 8+ month old trip report. Also, coincidentally very apt that this gets posted next to Jeff’s ‘wasps’ trip report. Dates: … Continue reading
Posted in Hike, Huts, Trip Reports, Workhike
Tagged demolition, Phelix, rain, roof, wasps
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Wasps (censored version)
The VOC has its share of glorious epics. Ideally these end up as a trip report or a journal article, and if they don’t, word-of-mouth only keeps them alive for so long. It’s always best if a real participant writes … Continue reading
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Khaos in Kazakhstan
The following is a trip report about our (Anton Afanassiev, Ben Sommerfeld, and Ketan Desai) fairly chaotic and injurious trip to Kazakhstan that happened last summer. Also joining us were Anelia Mynzhasarova and Bree Kehler. Now that the journal is … Continue reading
Posted in Accidents, Hike, Trip Reports
Tagged accident, hiking, international, NMAG, scrambling, summer
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Burns & Turns 2024 (Minus some Turns)
It all started in the wee hours of the morning the Saturday of reading break… (Okay, I’ll stop trying to sound Scottish now). My car group had surprisingly very minimal faff for the morning of a VOC trip. So to … Continue reading
Taking our skis for a walk: An attempt on Mt. Glendinning + Sloquet Hot Spring
Participants: Julian Larsen (me), Duncan MacIntyre, Stefanija Rekasius, Xi Liang After a long stretch of assignments and midterms I had one goal for reading break: absolutely forget about school. This necessitates a VOC trip or two, so I signed up … Continue reading