Tag Archives: Bushwhack

IcyHot Therapy

Posted on June 20, 2025 by Thomas Morrissey

On June 3rd-10th, Lorin Jacot and I teamed up for a week-long tour around the Lillooet Headwaters. The plan came together somewhat suddenly on May 30th, when we noticed an unusually long window of clear weather in the forecast. Given … Continue reading →

Posted in Ski, Trip Reports | Tagged alpine start, backcountry, Bridge Lillooet Divide, Bushwhack, Lillooet River, Meager Creek, mountaineering, ski traverse, Spring, Suffering, traverse, type 2 fun | 9 Comments

Harrison Hut Workhike (Fall 2024)

Posted on November 28, 2024 by Quintus Zhou

Trip Leader: Duncan Maclntyre Participants: Lyra Gui, Juliane Bonnefoy, Sophie Wigman, Joseph Chiao, Sara Bellman, Timm Rohweder, Zihan (Quintus) Zhou Note: please refer to Duncan’s report which will be published shortly after this one for details regarding the hut and … Continue reading →

Posted in Hike, Huts, Special Reports, Trip Reports, Workhike | Tagged Bushwhack, Harrison Hut, Meager Creek, Snow, snowshoe, Workhike | 7 Comments

Taking our skis for a walk: An attempt on Mt. Glendinning + Sloquet Hot Spring

Posted on February 28, 2024 by Julian Larsen

Participants: Julian Larsen (me), Duncan MacIntyre, Stefanija Rekasius, Xi Liang After a long stretch of assignments and midterms I had one goal for reading break: absolutely forget about school. This necessitates a VOC trip or two, so I signed up … Continue reading →

Posted in Hike, Ski, Trip Reports | Tagged Bushwhack, Harrison Lake, hike, hotsprings, ski | 7 Comments

Foggy Beginnings, Slippery Adventures, and Spooky Scenery: Bushwhacking at Mt. Seymour

Posted on October 17, 2023 by Amelie Korzec

We started off with a very foggy drive up to the Mt. Seymour parking lot, where it was hard to identify which cars were part of our group through the intense fog, but eventually we started on our way to … Continue reading →

Posted in Hike, Trip Reports | Tagged Bushwhack | 2 Comments

A Feature-length Pinecone Burke Traverse

Posted on July 15, 2022 by Thomas Morrissey

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 →

Posted in Climb, Hike, Trip Reports | 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 | 4 Comments

Stupendous Mountain Smackdown, March 1, 2019

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Jeff Mottershead

Vanderhoof claims that it’s the geographical centre of BC, implying that the geographical centre is distinct from the normal centre. They have a number of big signs to that effect. Wikipedia claims that there has long been debate about how … Continue reading →

Posted in Ski, Trip Reports | Tagged Bushwhack | 2 Comments

2018 Womyn’s Traverse – Skyline Trail aka Treelined Trail

Posted on March 28, 2018 by Heather Filyk

Welcome to the story of the annual Womyn’s Traverse Bushwhack. We (Else, Heather, and Dakotah) are all relatively experienced and wanted an objective with a little bit of adventure and unknown, while keeping with the traverse theme; … Continue reading →

Posted in Ski, Trip Reports | Tagged adventure, Bushwhack, Manning Park, Skyline, Women's traverse | 2 Comments