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The longest distance between two points: five days backpacking in the Grand Canyon
Day One: Saturday, April 19, 2025. I awoke to the sound of birds, with a stiff breeze billowing my tent fly. Poking my head out into the morning air, I took a deep breath as the first rays of light … Continue reading
Posted in Hike, Trip Reports
Tagged backpacking, Grand Canyon, Intermediate, Mid Group, Spring, Tonto Trail, USA
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An Almost Workhike to Burton Hut (A Garibaldi Mini-Epic)
There is a bit of a ventilation problem at Burton Hut (aka Sphinx Hut). It seems we did too good a job sealing gaps and insulating the hut. Knowing this, John Sherk and I started scheming a workhike to add … Continue reading
Posted in Huts, Ski, Trip Reports, Workhike
Tagged Epic, garibaldi, Garibaldi Neve, ski, Workhike
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Winter Longhike 2025
When I moved to Vancouver several years ago, I instantly fell in love with the mountains and decided I needed to experience this thing known as “winter camping”. Did I understand what it entailed? Certainly not. I just wanted to … Continue reading
Posted in Hike, Trip Reports
Tagged beginner-friendly, Brockton Point, First-Time, large group, Longhike, Mt. Seymour, snow caves, snowshoeing, Weekend, Winter
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Wrottesley Odyssey
Mount Wrottesley is the large dome-shaped peak visible across Howe Sound from the Sea-to-Sky Highway, Cypress Mountain resort, most of the Howe Sound Crest Trail, and the UBC area. Like most Vancouverites, I’d seen it hundreds of times, but never … Continue reading
Posted in Climb, Hike, Trip Reports
Tagged Box Canyon, hiking, mountaineering, scrambling, snowshoeing, solo trip, Spring, Sunshine Coast, Weekend, wrottesley
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Self Propelled Ski Summit Attempt of Pelion
Summiting Mount Baker (Koma Kulshan) via a self-propelled bike ski trip has been my primary objective for the past year. On every clear day in Vancouver, Baker peaks out of the horizon, prominent in the skyline. My winter revolved around … Continue reading
Posted in Cycle, Ski, Trip Reports
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Trip Dates: April 19-21, 2025 Trip Participants: Alexander Liu, Ayano Miyamoto, Lillian McCallum, Marie Sandler, Matilda Ridge, Morgan Tidler, Roseisa Weeraratne, & Sarah Tischer Have you ever been on a VOC trip where you set-off after 10am and arrived back … Continue reading
A Traverse of the (Creek Below the) Purity Range
Alex Barth, Thomas Morrissey, Ed Riley (author) Trip Dates: April 13th – April 17th 2025 The portion of the Selkirk Mountains south of Rogers Pass, BC, is home to many remote peaks, vast glaciers and deep river valleys. Our plan … Continue reading
Posted in Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged Rogers Pass, Selkirks, Ski Mountaineering, ski touring, ski traverse, winter camping
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Mother of Ski Mountaineering 2025
March 29th-30th Nelson Fretenburg, Finn Nieland, Alain Zhiyanov, Leon Chen, Elias Bowman, Alex Levy, Xander Hudyma Yu, Ed Riley, Tristan Russell, Erik Reimers On the beautiful traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish Nation and Lil’wat Nation. As the weather … Continue reading
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Finding My Ski Legs at Steep Creek
When I arrived in Vancouver in September, I didn’t think that I would ski that much. The closest I had been to a ski slope in the last six years was one made of diamond shaped plastic bristles, 96m above … Continue reading
Posted in Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged access, Beekers cabin, community, fall, inclusive, ski touring, Steep Creek
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My Toxic Relationship with the Splitboard
Like that ex you keep going back to hook up with after they hurt you, I have a similar relationship with the club splitboard. A couple of months ago, I had an absolute horror show on that board at … Continue reading