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Mt. Matier February 11th/12th 2012
Mt. Matier Veronika Schmitt, Todd Mackenzie, Charlie Beard, Erica Lay, Knut Kitching Good weather and low avalanche danger made the decision to climb Mt. Matier easy. It was around 7 am when Todd, Charlie and I picked up Knut, who … Continue reading
Waitangi day Sphinx
With 23 officially ‘going’ on the trip and more besides, there was 30-ish of us all told that headed up to sphinx this past weekend, including several first-time ski-trippers. On Saturday the weather could not have been better. The sky … Continue reading
Posted in Huts, Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged First-Time, Glacier, large group, leading, powder, ski, skiing, Weekend
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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
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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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New Years at Phelix
Philip, Olek, Annie, and I headed up on the 30th. We left Vancouver a full two hours after everyone else, but none the less, reunited at the trailhead with the big crowd. Breanne was supposed to be coming from across … Continue reading
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Tagged Climb, climbing, Face, Glacier, Mt Aragon, powder, ridge, scrambling, shadowfax, ski, skiing, Snow, turn around, Whiteout
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Locomotive Mountain – Entrainment Group (Oct. 15th – 2011)
After an early start on Saturday morning (October 15th) the entrainment group started from the trailhead parking lot northwest of Pemberton. This was at an elevation of about 1380m. The group decided to set a high tempo to reach the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2wd, autumn, daytrip, Enchainment, Face Mountain, Glacier, Intermediate, Locomotive Mountain, scramble, Semaphore Lakes, Small Group, Snow
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