Category Archives: Climb

Scrambling, Rock Climbing, Mountaineering, Ice Climbing

!GURI |AIB (The White Streak)

Learning to Route Develop and Big Wall Climb in Spitzkoppe, Namibia Preparatory Ramblings     Preparatory Ramblings It has taken me some time to submit this report. On my return from Namibia, I was greeted by a series of emergencies … Continue reading

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Ensakwatch Enchainment

Trip Date: September 19th, 2022 Participants: Noah Macdonald, Will Raleigh-Smith On Sunday, September 18th at around 3pm, Will asked if I was free to climb the next day — he was itching to get on some alpine rock before the … Continue reading

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Frey, Argentina: Among the Agujas

Trip date: January 9 – 14, 2023 Trip participants: Nick Hindley, Steve Stosky, Sam McEwen, Esther Li, Duncan Pawson, Val Fazio, Alissa Butcher, Natasha Beaulac, Nick Brown, Graham Haber, Tara Hartzell, Matt Hill Frey is an alpine area in the … Continue reading

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Chek Ice Climbing

Trip Date: Feb. 24th 2023 Trip Participants: Ethan Somji, James Maltman, Kaylie Robinson This fall and winter, James Maltman and myself and have spent a lot of time wandering about Chek Canyon. On one day that we were there we … Continue reading

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Cardiac Arête (maybe more like ‘Arrête’) 5.10d

Trip Date: October 10, 2022 Participants: Avery Soule, Fiona Landwehr, Sarah Knude, Sonia Landwehr, Tyler Soule For some context: ‘arrête‘ means ‘stopped’ in French, whereas an arête is a corner of rock. This pun will make more sense as you read … Continue reading

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Getting My Ass Kicked in the Tantalus

For full disclosure, I am mostly writing this trip report for its humorous value, and to pad the journal. I had wanted to go to the Tantalus in general, and climb the East ridge of Alpha specifically, for a while. … Continue reading

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Smith rock climbing trip

Our group arrived to the Smith Rock state park campground late at night on Thursday.  The night was chilly but nothing that five layers and stuffing oneself inside the backpack couldn’t solve.  We woke up the next day and took an … Continue reading

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Climbing Skywalker (5.8) in Memory of Will Ungar

Trip Date: October 16 Participants: Avery Soule, Evan Wong, Henry Stensland, Sonia Landwehr On September 2, 2022, our friend Will Ungar passed away in a climbing accident. There is so so much that could be said about Will, and much … Continue reading

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Exodus Glacer

Exodus Glacier Oct 15-16, 2022 With each passing weekend dawned the ‘last weekend of sun’, and as a relative newbie in Canada and Vancouver, I was eager to get into the mountains with some locals before the end of summer … Continue reading

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Sky Pilot and Mt Habrich Traverse

Me and Henrik were set to climb Mt Garibaldi via Brohm Ridge that weekend, thinking it would have been nice to sneak in some alpine action this late into the season. But the lack of up-to-date information on the Warren … Continue reading

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