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Baker
Having lived in Langley for a year I have been under the gaze of Mount Baker and have always wanted to climb it. Further, I had seen it from Vancouver Island, Sky pilot, Seymour, Grouse, Strachan, Coliseum and therefore had … Continue reading
Castle Towers ascent – By Ben Heaps and Andrew Cavers
Back in July Andrew and I got to cheakamus lake parking lot a after leaving burnaby at 6:30am. made it to the helm campground quickly, and then to the cinder cone, then up the south side of helm glacier to … Continue reading
Scrambling Around Wedgemount Lake
Photo credits: A: Adrian Armstrong R: Ryan Stelzer Leaving Vancouver and stopping at Squamish Mcdonalds we started up the trail at 7:40 AM. The weather was perfect on the first day. It took me 3 hours 5 minutes to get … Continue reading
Posted in Climb, Trip Reports
Tagged Climb, Face, Garibaldi Park, Glacier, scramble, scrambling, Squamish, Wedgemount Lake
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Glacier 1
Talk about wanting to do glacier 1, one student took a taxi all the way from North Vancouver to the Chance Creek logging road turnoff from Hwy 99. Next we had a bit of a cluster %*$% and parked 2 … Continue reading
Posted in Climb, Other, Trip Reports
Tagged Cypress, Glacier, North Vancouver, scramble, Snow
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Beyond Elfin Lakes
Upon seeing the trip post with the title “Beyond Elfin”, I was immediately intrigued. What is it like back there? I heard that the initial plan was to camp on night 1 of 3 at Mamquam Lake, explore and camp … Continue reading
Posted in Hike, Trip Reports
Tagged Climb, climbing, Elfin Lakes, hiking, Opal Cone, ridge, scramble, Snow
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