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Anderson River Valley: Intermediate Bushwhacking
Trip date: July 5-7, 2020 Trip Participants: Nick Hindley, Nick Brown, Daniel Alacoque The Anderson River Group is one of SW BC’s many, many hidden gems. The access FSR is just a little over 2 hours from Vancouver, and the … Continue reading
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Climbing in Cathedral Provincial Park
Trip Date: July 9-13, 2020 Trip Participants: Nick Hindley, Nick Brown, Daniel Alacoque In-keeping with my general theme of posting trip reports significantly after the fact; here is write up of our trip into Cathedral Provincial Park in mid-July 2020. … Continue reading
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Impromptu Rockies Road Trip
This trip report is ancient history, from early-September 2018. I wrote it but for some reason never posted it anywhere. The trip report feed has been pretty quiet lately for obvious reasons, so here’s some light reading of a coupl’a … Continue reading
New Routin’ at Phelix
After fleeing poor weather in Central BC, we came up with a backup plan to spend our week in familiar territory around the Phelix Creek area, putting up some new routes close to Brian Waddington hut. Aug 20 After a … Continue reading
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Pangea, Coastal Granite, and the Age of Discovery
Trip Participants: Harlin Brandvold, Nick Hindley, Duncan Pawson A journey into the remote, unexplored big walls of BC’s rugged Coast Range. Aug 10: We left Vancouver in the not-so-early morning on August 10th, Harlin’s truck loaded up with climbing gear, … Continue reading
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A Hard Lesson About a Soft Rock
This is the story of the time I fell 10m, ripped all 3 pieces of gear, and caught myself on an Arbutus tree at my belayers feet over a 20m drop. Lesson of the day: limestone is not granite; it does not hold … Continue reading
Car-less Sky Pilot Solo
Disclaimer: Soloing is dangerous. Stay well within your ability level, always tell someone where you’re going, have a back up plan. Or just don’t do it. December 14th 2017 I had just finished my last exam and was finally … Continue reading
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Tagged car-free, car-less, day trip, Sea to Summit, self propelled, Skypilot, Slog, solo
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Asulkan Valley Base Camp
The original scheme for this trip was to ski some big lines in one of the more seldom visited, but undeniably magnificent areas of Southwest BC; The Tantalus Range. In the days leading up to the pre-trip however, conditions were … Continue reading
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Tagged 2wd, Asulkan Valley, backcountry, Camping, Intermediate, multiday, overnight, reading week, Rogers Pass, ski, ski touring, skiing, Snow, Winter
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The time we “didn’t” climb Siwash Rock
The following TR is entirely hypothetical and the pictures are photoshopped, probably. “Siwash itself is not a quality climb – using the standard ‘star’ system of quality ratings it wouldn’t get even half of a star” – Bivouac.com How could … Continue reading
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Tagged climbing, gong show, midnight mountaineering, rock climbing, Siwash, Stanley Park
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