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Spearfishing in the Red Heather Lagoon, Jan 4-6 2019
After a bunch of people dropped in and out, venues changed and emails flew around, Devlin and I ended up by ourselves in a snow cave on a Friday at Red Heather, with the rest of our party arriving the … Continue reading
VOC Europe New Year’s 2019 Trip
VOC Europe is a loose collection of VOCers who left Canada and wish to bring the VOC spirit to Europe (example trip). Join our facebook group or write me (Tobias Klenze) a message: [email protected] Good overnight trips need only a … Continue reading
A Beginner’s Birthday in the Backcountry
Never having been on a backcountry ski trip before, I have no points of reference on how these things go – so excuse any presumptuous writing on my part. D The rain was cold as I trudged down main mall in … Continue reading
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Tagged beginner, beginner-friendly, december, Elfin Lakes, Garibaldi Park, ski, ski touring
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Mount Rainier via The Fuhrer Finger
A ski descent Dates: May 19-21, 2018 Participants: Duncan Pawson, Tobias Huxol, Justin Krawetz Note from the author: I apologize for my tardiness. I was debating whether or not to write a TR for this trip as it’s a … Continue reading
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Easter limping out of Phelix Hut
Easter limping out of Phelix Hut The day I heard that there were mountains named after Lord of the rings characters, I knew that I wanted to go there sometime. Luckily Robert Lachance organised a Skiing trip to Phelix Hut … Continue reading
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Tagged accident, Easter Weekend, large group, Mt Aragon, Phelix Hut, ski touring, Spring
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Lillooet Headwaters “Surge” (April 21-25, 2018)
** Brief aside about the TR title: Too much “in-doctor-nation” (pre-medical and medical schooling) has conditioned my mind to only think “SURGE” after LH… Since waters can surge just like hormones, and we completed this trip relatively quickly, I thought the … Continue reading
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The Engine and The Guard
An early season ascent of Phyllis’ Engine and a standard season ascent of The Guard Dates: April 25 – 28, 2018 Participants: Duncan Pawson, Nick Hindley, Tobias Huxol Prologue: The trip planning started as all classics do, with a good … Continue reading
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Little Brew Adventure
Roland, Aaron, and I went up to Brew, and stayed one night. We called it a workhike, and figured that there would be things to do, such as carry journals, empty the cashbox, measure the doorframe, and deal with the … Continue reading
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A Minor Brew Hut Fiasco: Turds
Participants: Anita, Devlin, the tirfor, poop and me On Friday, April 27, Anita (not of the VOC), Devlin and I started off towards to Brew Hut with the heaviest post hole digger I could find and a couple buckets labelled … Continue reading
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Winter Camping at Fat Dog
(trip report by Sarah Mitchell) Despite the strange trail name this trip was super fun including lots of rainy snow, cool mystical views of cloudy mountains, and most importantly – our top-notch snow fort kitchen. We started the day (after … Continue reading
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