Category Archives: Hike

Hiking, Trail Running, Snowshoeing

Night at Brockton

I wanted to sign up for the VOC since before I moved to Vancouver, back when I finished studying at UBCO. But after moving, I delayed for months until I saw Ketan’s Intro to Winter Backpacking trip. I finally signed … Continue reading

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NMAG Trip: A Through Hike in the Land of the Midnight Sun

Who: Linda Kiritchkov and Mason Slavner What: Laugavegur and Fimmvörðuháls trails Where: The Highlands of Iceland When: July 2nd – 8th, 2022 How: The Neil Mackenzie Adventure Grant Snow, wind, rain, geysers, volcanic glass, black sand, Rhyolite mountains, 24hr sunlight. … Continue reading

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Iron Chef Vol.IV

On October 22-23, we completed a long and tiresome hike up to the Brew Hut, the competitors were faced with the gruesome task of making the worlds best food with whatever ingredients were brought up. Our team, The Icy Marshmallows felt … Continue reading

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Halloween On The West Knob

Participants: Kevin Lam, Noah Wyse, Justin Angsana, Adam French, Lillian McCallum, Diana Bratu, Richard Pan, Mabel Moses, Grantham Gace, Param Mody, JJ James, Chester Chan, Lucas Braun, Rehaan Raother, Sparsh Inanda, and Aaryan Raina. Halloween was quickly approaching, and many … Continue reading

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Cadwallader Range Traverse

Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/C8oyUPU9RWHq6wZU6 Map (GPS route): https://caltopo.com/m/RL1LN Back in August, Tom Curran and I wanted to do a trip that was simple (no glacier travel) and involved minimal planning since we were both exhausted with no capacity to organize a group, … Continue reading

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Potluck in Phelix (October 21-23, 2022)

Day 1: It was a great day to start out the trip. All 3 cars met up at 7:30/8pm at the McDonalds in Pemberton. There we enjoyed a mini-carb fest of burgers, fries, and ice cream. We then left all … 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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A Rip Up To Phelix

I attempted to jot down a few notes during the last night at Phelix, the are as follows… -furst dday, early am at breka -we did not run with axes pr chainsaws during this trip -the community of voc… Now … Continue reading

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A weekend of silliness at Mt Marriot

While everybody else was at Rock Party, Emily, Joe, and I went on an overnight trip to scramble Mt Marriott. Nobody on this trip was really into taking photos, so as the single Arts student on the trip (and perhaps … 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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