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An Acquired Taste: Mosquitos, Beer, and Some Phelix Trail Maintenance

Saturday, 06/21/2025, 06:15 AM This trip was many firsts for me. It was my first VOC trip, my first time backpacking overnight, and my first time really even being in the backcountry. What was a universal first for our entire … Continue reading

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Observation Mountain: A Kluane Classic

  The Ä’äy Chù West is the most popular overnight trip in Kluane National Park and Reserve – and for good reason. The trail travels 22 kilometres up the Ä’äy Chù Valley from the Alaska Highway to the Canada Creek … Continue reading

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May 16th – May 20th, 2025 Participants: Joanna Gower (Wildflower Lover), Alexander Liu (Always Positive), Lukas Kunz (Quiet Force), Paul Ramu (Weather-Cursed) Stats: ~200km, ~4,300m elevation gain (Saturday morning to Monday afternoon) Route: Okanagan Falls->Okanagan FSR->Haynes Lake->KVT to Penticton->Okanagan Falls … Continue reading

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A spring day on the Neve Traverse high-route

April 13th, 2025 Julian Larson, Lorin Jacot, Erik Reimers On the beautiful traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish Nation, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, and Lil’wat Nation. With snow conditions and weather looking all-time, Julian suggested we do an in-a-day rip of … Continue reading

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IcyHot Therapy

On June 3rd-10th, Lorin Jacot and I teamed up for a week-long tour around the Lillooet Headwaters. The plan came together somewhat suddenly on May 30th, when we noticed an unusually long window of clear weather in the forecast. Given … Continue reading

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Can We Make it Up Cloudburst?

Friday, April 18, 2025: Who would turn down one last spring ski tour hurrah? In the midst of finals and formulating summer plans, Duncan Macintyre decided to post a ‘beginner-friendly’ overnight ski tour trip to Cloudburst Mountain. The idea was … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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