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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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Tagged beast, Memorial, multi-pitch, Shannon Falls, simple joy, swim, trad
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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
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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Climbing in the Waddington
Trip Date: July 27 – August 4, 2022 Trip Participants: Nick Hindley, Nick Brown, Ethan Berman, Matteo Agnoloni July 26 – The days leading up to this trip were somewhat stressful, as the weather always has the ultimate say. Our … Continue reading
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Sunny G1 on Brandywine
What do Brandywine Glacier and Katy Perry have in common? They were both a lot bigger in the early 2000s and are most definitely Hot and Cold. This weekend 60 VOCers occupied Brandywine Glacier for 2022’s annual Glacier School G1, … Continue reading
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Tagged 4wd, Brandwine, Climb, Glacier, hike, large group, mountaineering, overnight, Snow, Weekend, Whistler
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A Feature-length Pinecone Burke Traverse
Trip Dates: June 30th – July 4th, 2022 Ever since stumbling across Richard, Birgit, Vincent, and Cassandra’s 2017 trip report, the idea of doing an extended version of their “Pinecone Burke Traverse” had been kicking around my head. During a … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, backcountry, backpacking, Beautiful BC, bivy, Bootpack, Bushwhack, Climb, Coquitlam, early season, Epic, Fast and Light, Five Fingers, flagging, hike, hiking, hitchhiking, Mamquam, Meslilloet, mountaineering, multiday, overnight, Pinecone Burke park, Pinecone Burke Provincial Park, Pinecone Lake, ridge, scramble, scrambling, Slog, Snow, snow booting, Snowy, solo trip, summer, Transit Accessable, traverse, Watersprite Lake, Widgeon Creek
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Misadventures in Redneck Washington
Participants: Ana Ciocoiu, Eric Daigle Useful beta in bold Friday, May 27 In an attempt to escape the diluvial rains on the West coast, Eric and I picked the nearest dry town in Washington for a weekend climbing trip. 10pm: … Continue reading
Not Daugther Of Ice
I have been rock climbing for two years now, but before the Daugther of Ice trip was posted, I didn’t even know that ice climbing was something you could actually do – like for real. So after watching a few … Continue reading
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Tagged Daugther of Ice, ice climbing, IcyBC, Marble Canyon
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Pangea 2021: Disaster Fauna (5.11- A0, 600m) First Ascent
A much delayed trip report from August 2021. Article adapted from an entry originally submitted to the American Alpine Journal. ————– On August 15, 2021, Harlin Brandvold, Duncan Pawson, and I loaded our gear into the helicopter to make our … Continue reading