Tag Archives: ski traverse

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 | 8 Comments

A Traverse of the (Creek Below the) Purity Range

Posted on April 22, 2025 by Edward Riley

Alex Barth, Thomas Morrissey, Ed Riley (author) Trip Dates: April 13th – April 17th 2025 The portion of the Selkirk Mountains south of Rogers Pass, BC, is home to many remote peaks, vast glaciers and deep river valleys. Our plan … Continue reading →

Posted in Ski, Trip Reports | Tagged Rogers Pass, Selkirks, Ski Mountaineering, ski touring, ski traverse, winter camping | 2 Comments

A Long Walk in the Dark: A Single-Push Base-to-Base Spearhead Traverse

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Noah Macdonald

TRIP DATES: March 6th – 7th, 2025 PARTICIPANTS: Erik Reimers, Evan Wong, Noah Macdonald BACKGROUND: The Spearhead The Spearhead Traverse is a classic ski mountaineering route in Garibaldi Provincial Park. It is a horseshoe-shaped circuit that links Blackcomb and Whistler Mountains. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Ski, Trip Reports | Tagged overnight, Ski Mountaineering, ski touring, ski traverse, Spearhead, Spearhead Traverse, Speed Traverse, Type 1 fun, type 2, type 2 fun | 9 Comments

A Cheeky June Neve Traverse

Posted on June 21, 2024 by Erik Reid Reimers

Flavia Caprez, Alex Barth, Ivan Fediaev, and myself (Erik Reimers) After spending a couple weeks pouring over route descriptions, trip reports, forecasts, and Copernicus/Sentinel Hub satellite imagery, Flavia and I decided to start off our “June adventure week” on skis … Continue reading →

Posted in Ski, Trip Reports | Tagged Garibaldi Neve, Neve Traverse, ski traverse | Leave a comment

Ice worms, rain, and burning skins – “Interesting” Skiing on the Pemberton Icecap

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Birgit Rogalla

Pemberton Icefield traverse May 20-23, ~60km, lots of elevation Mike Cancilla, Luca Malaguti, Ross Campbell, Birgit Rogalla Following an email discussion, preparations for this trip started on Monday night (May 16th) when we all met up at the Veenstras’ place … Continue reading →

Posted in Ski, Trip Reports | Tagged 2wd, Callaghan Lake, Harrison Hut, Pemberton Icefield, rain, ski traverse, skiing, Spring, Suffering | 2 Comments

Blackcomb-Currie daytrip

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Christian Veenstra

Saturday, April 2nd. Normally, when trying to do a new (to me) ski traverse as a day-trip I end up spending far more time researching/planning the trip than I do on the trip itself (I think, for Tantalus it might … Continue reading →

Posted in Ski, Trip Reports | Tagged bivouac, Climb, climbing, daytrip, Face, Glacier, hiking, hitchhiking, McBride, ski, ski traverse, skiing, Snow, summer, Tantalus, Tantalus Provincial Park, toddler, traverse, Weekend, Whistler | 3 Comments

Bridge Lillooet Divide April 17-24 2012

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Samuel Belanger-McKoy

This TR is a bit long. I suggest reading in segments or taking the full time to read it all. Skimming pictures is less acceptable. On their way up from Vancouver, Marius Muja, Nora Lyngra, and Michal Rozworski sat in … Continue reading →

Posted in Ski, Trip Reports | Tagged backcountry, Boomerang Glacier, Bridge Lillooet Divide, british columbia, Delilah, Ethelweard, Face, Fasp, Icemaker, Locomotive, Pebble, pemberton, Railroad Pass, Sampson, Sessel, ski traverse, Thiassi, Train Glacier, Whiteout | 2 Comments

Fast and Light McBride

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Christian Veenstra

A bit of an old Trip Report (trip happened Easter 2011), but with a slideshow coming up I thought it might be good to copy it over. Not to mention that the new public TRs look great and are, well, … Continue reading →

Posted in Ski, Trip Reports | Tagged 2wd, Fast and Light, Garibaldi Park, Intermediate, McBride, Sir Richard, ski traverse, Small Group, Sphinx Bay, Weekend, Winter | 2 Comments