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A Traverse of the (Creek Below the) Purity Range
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
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Tagged Rogers Pass, Selkirks, Ski Mountaineering, ski touring, ski traverse, winter camping
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A Long Walk in the Dark: A Single-Push Base-to-Base Spearhead Traverse
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
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Tagged overnight, Ski Mountaineering, ski touring, ski traverse, Spearhead, Spearhead Traverse, Speed Traverse, Type 1 fun, type 2, type 2 fun
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A Cheeky June Neve Traverse
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
Ice worms, rain, and burning skins – “Interesting” Skiing on the Pemberton Icecap
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
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Tagged 2wd, Callaghan Lake, Harrison Hut, Pemberton Icefield, rain, ski traverse, skiing, Spring, Suffering
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Blackcomb-Currie daytrip
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
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Tagged bivouac, Climb, climbing, daytrip, Face, Glacier, hiking, hitchhiking, McBride, ski, ski traverse, skiing, Snow, summer, Tantalus, Tantalus Provincial Park, toddler, traverse, Weekend, Whistler
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Bridge Lillooet Divide April 17-24 2012
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
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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
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Fast and Light McBride
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
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Tagged 2wd, Fast and Light, Garibaldi Park, Intermediate, McBride, Sir Richard, ski traverse, Small Group, Sphinx Bay, Weekend, Winter
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