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G2: Intro to Advanced Alpine Swimming
G2: Intro to Advanced Alpine Swimming As plans for the destination of G2 ran through a series of locations, any serious goals were thrown out the window. It was for this reason Lachlan, Neil and I found ourselves hiking up … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, Climb, climbing, dry, Dry tooling, Face, fall, Glacier, hike, hiking, mountaineering, Nepal, ridge, Snow, Squamish, Wedgemount Lake
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NE Buttress of Slesse
The NE Buttress of Slesse is a long and classic climb up a very intimidating mountain and draws climbers from all over the Pacific NW. Rated 5.9 with up to 25 pitches, apparently most climbers either bivy on the way … Continue reading
Team Alpine Start and the Sunshine Coast Trail: June 20- July 1, 2013
Introduction (Cora): A few months back, my friend Ionatan contacted me and asked me if I would be interested in joining him on the Sunshine Coast Trail near Powell River. This trail is 180 km long, and includes many … Continue reading
Posted in Hike, Trip Reports
Tagged adventure, backcountry, bear, bears, cougar, day trip, dry, Face, ferry, flagging, fog, hike, hiking, Hope, Horseshoe Bay, huts, Mud, outhouse, Powell River, rain, Rainy Day, scrambling, skiing, Sunshine Coast
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The Misty Icefield Traverse (April 20-28)
On April 20, Piotr Forysinski, Ben SP, Clemens Adolphs, Stephanie Grothe and I (Julien Renard) decided to put an end to the month long email faff that was threatening to overload my email account and finally go explore the Misty … Continue reading
Posted in Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged Alpine Climbing, backcountry, Baker, bivouac, Climb, climbing, Epic, Face, fishing, Garibaldi Neve, Garibaldi Park, Glacier, Judge Howay, Lillooet River, McBride, North Shore, pemberton, rain, ridge, scramble, ski, skiing, Skookumchuck Hot Springs, Snow, Suffering, trad, traverse, turn around
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Headwind and (eventual) happiness-Deception Pass Dash 2012
The horn blows, over a hundred paddlers all around me start paddling like mad, and I think to myself CRAP, as my left hand is in my poggie, and the right one isn’t yet. But lets rewind to the start. … Continue reading
Scrambling Around Wedgemount Lake
Photo credits: A: Adrian Armstrong R: Ryan Stelzer Leaving Vancouver and stopping at Squamish Mcdonalds we started up the trail at 7:40 AM. The weather was perfect on the first day. It took me 3 hours 5 minutes to get … Continue reading
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Tagged Climb, Face, Garibaldi Park, Glacier, scramble, scrambling, Squamish, Wedgemount Lake
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Semaphore Lakes Scramble (August 25-26)
My first trip with the VOC! I had done a lot of hiking in my pre-VOC life, but never much scrambling. I decided that a beginner friendly trip to Locomotive and Face Mountain would be a great introduction. On Saturday, … Continue reading
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Tagged beginner, canoe, dry, Face, Face Mountain, Glacier, hike, hiking, leading, Locomotive, Locomotive Mountain, paddle, pemberton, ridge, scramble, scrambling, Semaphore Lakes, Snow, Snowy, Train Glacier, Whistler
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Pirateering Camp 2012
I arrived at the club room on the August 29th to meet with other people interested in heading up to Mountaineering Camp. After some discussion with those in the room, it seemed like the Chehalis Range didn’t suit our skill … Continue reading
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Tagged Cerise Creek, Climb, Face, fall, Glacier, Joffre, leading, MEC, mountaineering, outhouse, rain, ridge, scramble, ski, Snow, traverse, turn around, Whiteout
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Springbok Arete on Les Cornes
After a successful climb of the Grand Wall with Michal Rozworski (my summer goal), Michal and I decided we needed to test our rock prowessness on something a bit bigger and in the Alpine. After throwing around a few ideas, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alpine Climbing, Climb, climbing, Face, fall, leading, ridge, scramble, Snow, summer, traverse
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Liberty Ridge
July 5th After being skunked for weather on the past two consecutive weekends, the forecast was finally looking up. Nick Matwyuk and I had been eyeing Liberty Ridge on Mt. Rainier ever since our abject failure on Mt. Logan in … Continue reading
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Tagged Baker, Climb, climbing, Face, fall, Glacier, Hope, mountaineering, ridge, scrambling, Snow, sunny
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