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Ice-scape to Brandywine Glacier: an Unofficial Glacier School
Pre-Glacier School: I’d like to start off this report with another huge thank you to Jeff Mottershead. Thanks for teaching us the ropes literally and figuratively on glacier traversing and for babysitting 11 eager ‘kids’ for a weekend. The first … Continue reading
A Ski Descent of Mt Robson (Kain Face via the Patterson Couloir)
Trip Date: May 7th-10th, 2024 Participants: Noah Macdonald, Charles-Antoine Leblanc Summitting and skiing Mount Robson has been a dream of mine for longer than I can remember. On May 9th, I finally made that dream come true. Brevity is a virtue … Continue reading
Posted in Climb, Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged Alpine Climbing, alpine start, Epic, Mount Robson, overnight, Rockies, Ski Mountaineering, ski touring, Spring touring
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Phelix Hut Gets a New Hat – Construction Weekend 2
Brian Waddington Hut 2023 Roof Renewal, Phelix Creek Aug 5-7, 2023 Participants: Braydon Massoud, Quintus Zhou, Mykal Bakker-Westeinde, Sonia Landwehr, Jeff Mottershead, Jacob Grossbard, Haley Foladare, Sam Viavant, Nadine Bruneau, Juliane Bonnefoy, Rachel Bates, Joe Meyer, Alex Beauchemin, Aaron Lee, Avery … Continue reading
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Touring Tetrahedron (bike+ski)
It was the week before the Easter long weekend, and a ski touring VOC trip to Tetrahedron that I was planning on going on had just been canceled for reasons of snow conditions (for fairly good reason). However, my weekend … Continue reading
Posted in Cycle, Huts, Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged bike, bikepacking, car-free, overnight, ski touring, skiing, Small Group, Snow, Sunshine Coast, Weekend, Winter
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Cambria Icefield
The Thirteen Pass Route follows the iconic Skyline Trail from its start near Jasper to near its end, but before the Skyline’s final descent to Maligne Lake, the Thirteen Pass Route breaks off and connects to the Eight Pass Route, … Continue reading
Pacific Spirit Ultramarathon
Date: March 24th, 2024 Participants: Noah Macdonald, Alex Beauchemin, Ine Østmo, Maiya Callister, Sean McKay TRIP REPORT: On March 24th, 2024, five VOCers set out to cover every trail in Pacific Spirit Park in a single push. No one in … Continue reading
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Tagged Pacific Spirit, Running, trail running, ultramarathon
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Mellow lines at Cerise Creek (Steep Lines at Steep Creek Vol. 5)
With a beautiful March 23rd weekend forecast predicting better ski conditions up high, our small but mighty “Steep Lines at Steep Creek” group of four (Alex Barth, Flavia Caprez, Ana Ciocoiu, and myself, Erik Reimers) made the decision to switch … Continue reading
Posted in Huts, Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged Keiths Hut, Mt Matier, Ski Mountaineering, ski touring, Small Group, Spring
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It’s Now or Neve (Reflections On A Single Push Traverse)
March 24, 2024 The Build-Up The Garibaldi Neve traverse needs no introduction. This 41 km gauntlet has been run by many a VOCer, often before they really know what they’re getting into with ski touring. The high alpine icefield demands … Continue reading
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Phelix Demolition
Realizing I wrote this article for the journal but never put it on the website, so here you go! An 8+ month old trip report. Also, coincidentally very apt that this gets posted next to Jeff’s ‘wasps’ trip report. Dates: … Continue reading
Posted in Hike, Huts, Trip Reports, Workhike
Tagged demolition, Phelix, rain, roof, wasps
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Wasps (censored version)
The VOC has its share of glorious epics. Ideally these end up as a trip report or a journal article, and if they don’t, word-of-mouth only keeps them alive for so long. It’s always best if a real participant writes … Continue reading
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