Tag Archives: dry

Team Alpine Start and the Sunshine Coast Trail: June 20- July 1, 2013

Posted on July 24, 2013 by Cora Skaien

Introduction (Cora): A few months back, my friend Ionatan contacted me and asked me if I would be interested in joining him on the Sunshine Coast Trail near Powell River. This trail is 180 km long, and includes many … Continue reading →

Posted in Hike, Trip Reports | Tagged adventure, backcountry, bear, bears, cougar, day trip, dry, Face, ferry, flagging, fog, hike, hiking, Hope, Horseshoe Bay, huts, Mud, outhouse, Powell River, rain, Rainy Day, scrambling, skiing, Sunshine Coast | 2 Comments

Phelix Scrambles July 13-14

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Deb Conrady

Bright and early Saturday morning, the Campbellmobile picked me up for my fourth VOC trip: a weekend of hiking and scrambling around Phelix Hut. It was Ross’s 40th trip, overall, but his first trip as an organizer. It got off … Continue reading →

Posted in Climb, Huts, Trip Reports | Tagged 2wd, 4wd, Climb, climbing, Dmitri, dry, Golden Ears, hike, hiking, Hope, Mt Aragon, Mt Gandalf, pemberton, Phelix Hut, rain, ridge, Running, scramble, scrambling, shadowfax, Snow, Snowy, Squamish, summer, Waddington Hut, Weekend, Whistler | 3 Comments

Introduction to Mountaineering

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Boris Dalstein

So it was on this Saturday June 8th, 2013, that the first Introduction to Mountaineering took place, at Cypress Mountain. According to what I’ve read, it is meant to be a one-day introduction to mountaineering, on real snow, but not … Continue reading →

Posted in Climb, Trip Reports | Tagged Baden Powell trail, beginner, Cypress, day trip, dry, expedition, fall, Glacier, mountaineering, Running, self-arrest, ski, Snow | 2 Comments

Brewski Brew Ski

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Marie-Eve Myrand-Lapierre

Rain and a lot of snow… pretty much the same weather than the last attempted trip to Brew Hut two weeks ago. Because we were only 5 instead of 20, we came to the conclusion that we would be faster, … Continue reading →

Posted in Huts, Ski, Trip Reports | Tagged Brew Hut, dry, hike, hiking, outhouse, powder, rain, Running, ski, Snow, Squamish, turn around, Whiteout | 1 Comment

Hot Times in Hot Springs – October 13-14

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Carolyn Prentice

As Artem Bylinskii put it in his trip description – “it is the off-season, when our climbing gear is stored, and ski gear hiding from rocks” – so really, what else is there to do other than spend the weekend … Continue reading →

Posted in Other, Trip Reports | Tagged adventure, Climb, climbing, dry, hike, Keyhole Hot Springs, rain, ski, Weekend, Whistler | 1 Comment

Semaphore Lakes Scramble (August 25-26)

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Laurent Roberge

My first trip with the VOC! I had done a lot of hiking in my pre-VOC life, but never much scrambling. I decided that a beginner friendly trip to Locomotive and Face Mountain would be a great introduction. On Saturday, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climb, Trip Reports | Tagged beginner, canoe, dry, Face, Face Mountain, Glacier, hike, hiking, leading, Locomotive, Locomotive Mountain, paddle, pemberton, ridge, scramble, scrambling, Semaphore Lakes, Snow, Snowy, Train Glacier, Whistler | 1 Comment

Canyoning, Canyoneering, or Can-yawn-ing

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Artem Bylinskii

On the weekend of August 24-25, Marcin Mirski, Phil Daoust, and myself went canyoning on the North Shore. With a stark lesson from Phil that it wasn’t called canyoneering and that only Americans called it that way, while the rest … Continue reading →

Posted in Other, Trip Reports | Tagged adventure, Cypress, Dmitri, dry, hike, Marcin, North Shore, scrambling, Weekend | 7 Comments

May Long at Skaha Bluffs

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Greg Dennis

Friday: Clash of Civilizations Team Sexy Sunglasses (Christina, Greg, Sabrina and Yvan) packed into the (tentatively-named) Blue Bullet right after work Friday and, longing for dry rock, headed for Skaha. Sabrina is American and Christina is fresh-off-the-boat from Germany, so … Continue reading →

Posted in Climb, Trip Reports | Tagged bear, boat, Climb, climbing, Coquihalla Summit, dry, fall, hike, Hope, leading, rain, Running, Skaha, Skaha Bluffs, Weekend | Leave a comment

Snorkelling at the Duffey

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Kate Wootton

Well we had to begin the day with a somewhat brutal 4am start, with a pick up at 4.45am, but some napping in the car helped me top up on energy somewhat! We reached the car park early (an extra … Continue reading →

Posted in Ski, Trip Reports | Tagged adventure, beginner, dry, duffey, Elfin Lakes, fall, pemberton, powder, ski, skiing, Snow, Telemark, Weekend | 1 Comment

A Wedge-Currie Traverse: from Blackcomb to Pemberton by ski (Feb 3-5)

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Breanne Johnson

The moon is full, casting shadows across the frozen, snowmobile tracked Green river road. I skin along, my skis scraping whenever they cross over ice chunks separating car tracks from snowmobile tracks. It’s 2:00am and my mind is on repeat, … Continue reading →

Posted in Ski, Trip Reports | Tagged adventure, backcountry, bear, climbing, dry, Face, fall, fog, Garibaldi Park, Glacier, Hope, Joffre, Mystery Creek, overnight, pemberton, powder, ridge, Running, scrambling, ski, skiing, Snow, sunny, Tantalus, Tantalus Provincial Park, traverse, turn around, Weekend, Whistler | 1 Comment