Tag Archives: Garibaldi Park

Upwards to Panorama Ridge in Foggy Garibaldi (July 5)

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Michael Zima

With the weather forecast in doubt and a cloudy morning settling over the city, we set out early from Vancouver in two cars. A few last-minute additions made sure that this daytrip to Panorama Ridge would see a well-sized group … Continue reading →

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Take 2: Black Tusk and Lake Garibaldi

Posted on June 14, 2014 by Ailsa Naismith

It was a beautiful, sunny Saturday. The birds were chirping, the skies were doing what skies do, and of course no one was on time to the meeting point. However, the force was with us and we managed to assemble … Continue reading →

Posted in Climb, Hike, Trip Reports | Tagged adventure, bears, Black Tusk, Climb, dry, expert, Garibaldi Lake, Garibaldi Park, hike, leading, panorama, Panorama Ridge, rain, ridge, ski, skiing, Snow, Squamish, Stanley Park, sunny, Taylor Meadows, Weekend | Leave a comment

Beginner Friendly Intro to Scrambling: Black Tusk and Panorama Ridge

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Jens Vent-Schmidt

Trip report by Crystal To. Being native to what most VOC’ers consider a foreign suburb (Burnaby), I was fortunate enough to be picked up at an ungodly hour by Martin the Skier (there were two Martins on this trip), who … Continue reading →

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Skiing trip to Burton Hut, March 29–30

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Alfred Larsen

Trip report and photos by Endre Nerhus Oeen. On Saturday March 29th, six skiers and one on snow shoers left the parking spot near the highway in rain and foggy conditions. Some skinning and some boot packing up the Garibaldi … Continue reading →

Posted in Huts, Ski, Trip Reports | Tagged Burton Hut, Garibaldi Lake, Garibaldi Park, rain, skiing, Snow, Sphinx Bay | 1 Comment

Burton Hut Feb 19th – 21st

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Cassandra Elphinstone

It is difficult to write a better trip report than Roland’s so I thought I should just add some details and quote his summary of the trip. “Executive Summary: Sphinx Camp seemed small this year. Just Cassandra and me. Can’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Huts, Trip Reports | Tagged birthday, Black Tusk, Burton Hut, ferry, Garibaldi Lake, Garibaldi Park, Hope, huts, outhouse, ski, skiing, Snow, Taylor Meadows, turn around | Leave a comment

Playing in the Snow: Snowshoeing at Taylor Meadows

Posted on December 10, 2013 by Henry Zhang

It all began with a girl who really likes to play in the snow and who wanted to take a break from all that studying for finals: On Saturday, Dec 7, 2013, Anne Darby took a brave group of snowshoers … Continue reading →

Posted in Hike, Trip Reports | Tagged Anne, bear, beginner, Black Tusk, Garibaldi Lake, Garibaldi Park, Running, Snow, snowshoeing, Squamish, Taylor Meadows, Winter | 3 Comments

Castle Towers ascent – By Ben Heaps and Andrew Cavers

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Ben Heaps

Back in July Andrew and I got to cheakamus lake parking lot a after leaving burnaby at 6:30am. made it to the helm campground quickly, and then to the cinder cone, then up the south side of helm glacier to … Continue reading →

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A Day to Remember

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Shane Duan

Earlier this year in the winter, the club replaced the front door at Sphinx (Burton) Hut with a new one. However, the new door had a big gap at the bottom which created various problems; for example, snow drift in, … Continue reading →

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G2 at Wedgemount Glacier, September 6-8, 2013

Posted on September 16, 2013 by Cassandra Elphinstone

“The youngest writes the trip report.” This is what Olek told me before we began the hike down from Wedgemount Lake. It wasn’t that I had not heard this before but I had never taken it seriously. Last year for … Continue reading →

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The Misty Icefield Traverse (April 20-28)

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Julien Renard

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 →

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