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Lake Lovely Water and beyond

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Shane Monks O\'Byrne

30th Sep – 2nd Oct After seeing the weather forecast, plans for the weekend were a bit up in the air; shall we stay or shall we go. Amin, the trip organizer was desperately trying to organize lifts, check people … Continue reading →

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Meager Obelisk, July 22-24

Posted on July 30, 2016 by Lea Zhecheva

How it started: “Weekend plans?” – Nick Some email faff, obsessive weather monitoring and a trip change later we were in downtown picking up Ben from work.  I was really excited. My memories of Harrison thus far only included rain, … Continue reading →

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Alcoholic Traverse, July 2016

Posted on July 30, 2016 by Roland Burton

I didn’t write this TR, it was prepared by Ben Heaps, but I don’t know how to get the computer to say that. This epic began with a bad mountain weather forecast, involving thunderstorms. Accepting the risks, the trip was … Continue reading →

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Bears, Uzbeki Trout soup, and paddle boards; truly epic nonsense!

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Ross Campbell

Participants: Ross Campbell, Birgit Rogalla, Natalie Makepeace, and Gabe Frame Our week was fast hurtling towards the Canada Day long weekend and our weekend plans still consisted of a long, impenetrable e-mail faff of about 10 different options. My solution … Continue reading →

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Mt Currie Trail

Posted on June 6, 2016 by Roland Burton

A couple of years ago the village of Pemberton, hoping to attract tourists, built a trail up Mt Currie. The TH is semi-reachable by car if you can do water bars and cross small streams. None of us had ever … Continue reading →

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Blackcomb-Currie daytrip

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Christian Veenstra

Saturday, April 2nd. Normally, when trying to do a new (to me) ski traverse as a day-trip I end up spending far more time researching/planning the trip than I do on the trip itself (I think, for Tantalus it might … Continue reading →

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New Year Fiasco in Kootenay. Part 2

Posted on March 23, 2016 by Ilia Capralov

Do you know that feeling when you first get up in the morning and for several seconds have no idea where you are or how you got there? I had this same feeling that morning just before I completely woke … Continue reading →

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Learning to Survival Ski 2016 March 5-6

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Roland Burton

As sometimes happens, there’s a couple of people who want to try skiing. Not Alpine Touring with the expensive bindings, and not Tele, where they actually know how, but just a bit of survival skiing. So we head off to … Continue reading →

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New Year Fiasco in Kootenay Part 1

Posted on March 4, 2016 by Ilia Capralov

This is a story about how I and my girlfriend Dina went for a ski tour in Kootenays for the 2015-2016 winter break. The trip started on Dec 28th 2015 and finished on Jan 2nd 2015. From my previous experience … Continue reading →

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Unfinished Ungulates

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Ian Johnston

Veenstra Traverse 2015 Part 2: Unfinished Ungulates Participants: Ben Singleton-Poster, Christian Veenstra, Ian Johnston, Kevin Pierce, and Liz Lund.  After last weekend’s Zum Peak Fiasco, a return to the Coquihalla seemed necessary. Not going back would basically be admitting defeat … Continue reading →

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