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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
Posted in Climb, Trip Reports
Tagged Baker, Climb, climbing, Face, fall, Glacier, Hope, mountaineering, ridge, scrambling, Snow, sunny
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May Long at Skaha Bluffs
Friday: Clash of Civilizations Team Sexy Sunglasses (Christina, Greg, Sabrina and Yvan) packed into the (tentatively-named) Blue Bullet right after work Friday and, longing for dry rock, headed for Skaha. Sabrina is American and Christina is fresh-off-the-boat from Germany, so … Continue reading
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Tagged bear, boat, Climb, climbing, Coquihalla Summit, dry, fall, hike, Hope, leading, rain, Running, Skaha, Skaha Bluffs, Weekend
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8 days of Yosemite climbing
The drive to Yosemite took a full 24 hours with Jacob Cramm driving most of the way, a stop for groceries, and a stop to replace a radiator hose and coolant. It was my third day in a row of … Continue reading
Snorkelling at the Duffey
Well we had to begin the day with a somewhat brutal 4am start, with a pick up at 4.45am, but some napping in the car helped me top up on energy somewhat! We reached the car park early (an extra … Continue reading
TR Mt. Rohr February 18th and 19th 2012
The not-quite-the-summit-yet-shot taken by Scott MacPherson. Veronika Schmitt, Anne Vialettes, Nicole Ong, Steffen Randahl, Scott MacPherson, Andrew Hill, Isabel Verse, Thomas Vogel, Jake Alleyne, Anna Stemberger, Thierry Heger, Adriana Muja. Anne and Veronika organised a great trip up to Mt. … Continue reading
Posted in Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged Anne, backcountry, fall, leading, Mt. Rohr, overnight, rats, ski, skiing, Snow, Squamish, Telemark, turn around, Weekend
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Skiing Trip to Mount Cayoosh
On Saturday Feb. 25th a group of five VOCers including Jess, Diego, Ian Ryan and myself headed towards Joffre lakes to summit Mount Cayoosh and do some skiing, or in my case rather more or less controlled falling down snow … Continue reading
A Wedge-Currie Traverse: from Blackcomb to Pemberton by ski (Feb 3-5)
The moon is full, casting shadows across the frozen, snowmobile tracked Green river road. I skin along, my skis scraping whenever they cross over ice chunks separating car tracks from snowmobile tracks. It’s 2:00am and my mind is on repeat, … Continue reading
Posted in Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged adventure, backcountry, bear, climbing, dry, Face, fall, fog, Garibaldi Park, Glacier, Hope, Joffre, Mystery Creek, overnight, pemberton, powder, ridge, Running, scrambling, ski, skiing, Snow, sunny, Tantalus, Tantalus Provincial Park, traverse, turn around, Weekend, Whistler
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Crossing of Tasman sea, Nov 2011 – Jan 2012 (part 1)
Four men (James Blake, Andrew McCowan, Nigel Cherrie and yours truly) have completed an unassisted crossing of the Tasman sea in a row boat from Sydney to New Zealand (landing in the Bay of Islands). This was only the second … Continue reading
Posted in Paddle, Trip Reports
Tagged boat, christmas, climbing, expedition, fall, kayaking, overnight, Running
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Lessons Learned in an Intro to Backcountry Skiing
Attendees: Helene, Alex, Kate, Noriko, Marius, Skyler, Faroe, Adriana, Olek, Knut, Jannu, Simon, Brett, Frans, Artem, Jessica. Trip Report by Kate and Frans. After spending most of Friday on campus in the rain and not knowing whether the trip was … Continue reading
The Dismal Ski Trip of Gloom (Jan 7-8, 2012)
While the Friday potluckers trickled home in the early hours of Saturday morning, I set my alarm for a few hours later. A snippet of sleep, and I was suddenly zooming up the sea to sky. Having given up a … Continue reading