Tag Archives: traverse

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 →

Posted in Hike, Trip Reports, Workhike | Tagged beginner, Brandywine, helicopter, hike, pemberton, Running, Snow, traverse | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Ski, Trip Reports | Tagged bivouac, Climb, climbing, daytrip, Face, Glacier, hiking, hitchhiking, McBride, ski, ski traverse, skiing, Snow, summer, Tantalus, Tantalus Provincial Park, toddler, traverse, Weekend, Whistler | 3 Comments

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 →

Posted in Ski, Trip Reports | Tagged bikepacking, Castlegar, climbing, huts, kayaking, kootenay, Nelson, Rossland, Running, Salmo, ski, skiing, Slocan, Snow, summer, traverse | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in Ski, Trip Reports | Tagged beginner, dry, Garibaldi Lake, Garibaldi Park, Harrison Hut, powder, rain, Red Heather, Red Heather meadows, ski, skiing, Snow, summer, toddler, traverse | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Ski, Trip Reports | Tagged backcountry, Castlegar, hike, hiking, Hope, huts, kootenay, mountaineering, Nelson, Salmo, ski, ski touring, skiing, Snow, traverse, Winter | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Hike, Trip Reports | Tagged 4wd, Alpine Climbing, Baker, Chilliwack, Climb, climbing, Face, ridge, scrambling, traverse, Veenstra Traverse, Weekend, Zum Peak | Leave a comment

Nov 8-9: (ad)Venture up Brew Hut

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Fangwen Zhao

I was dying to escape the city when I signed up for the Brew Hut trip. Saturday morning finally came around, and though already exhausted, I eagerly “popped out of the ground” at Burrard Station to meet with Roland and … Continue reading →

Posted in Huts, Trip Reports | Tagged backcountry, Brew Hut, Firewood, hike, ridge, Snow, traverse, Weekend, Whistler | Leave a comment

In search of an Epic on Shuksan

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Neil Mackenzie

In the early mists of time, when the world was but a primordial soup, Alex and I made a plan to go climbing. As the months drew by Alex suffered many a sleepless night (due to the arrival of his … Continue reading →

Posted in Climb, Trip Reports | Tagged adventure, Anne, Baker, Climb, climbing, duffey, Epic, Glacier, leading, mountaineering, ridge, scramble, scrambling, shuksan, Snow, traverse, washington, Winter | 3 Comments

Best Scramble-to-Suffer ratio: Marhor to Needle Traverse

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Dmitri Oguz

At 9pm on a Friday night, after tossing around a few other ideas, Piotr and I decided that Marhor-Needle traverse sounds like a fun way to spend a day, and by 7am the next morning we were on the way … Continue reading →

Posted in Climb, Trip Reports | Tagged bear, Climb, Coquihalla Summit, fall, hike, Hope, Intermediate, ridge, scramble, scrambling, Slog, Suffering, traverse | Leave a comment

Glacier School G1

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Katie Cullen

-Photos by Nathan Starzynski Lesson 1: The Alpine Start On the morning of September 5th, 55 or so VOCers keen to learn about glacier travel could be found winding their way up towards Cypress Peak for Glacier School, G1. Alpine … Continue reading →

Posted in Climb, Other, Trip Reports | Tagged climbing, Cypress, dry, fall, Glacier, Glacier School, Hope, instruction, leading, ridge, Running, scramble, self-arrest, Snow, summer, sunny, traverse, Weekend | 2 Comments