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The longest distance between two points: five days backpacking in the Grand Canyon
Day One: Saturday, April 19, 2025. I awoke to the sound of birds, with a stiff breeze billowing my tent fly. Poking my head out into the morning air, I took a deep breath as the first rays of light … Continue reading
Posted in Hike, Trip Reports
Tagged backpacking, Grand Canyon, Intermediate, Mid Group, Spring, Tonto Trail, USA
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Wrottesley Odyssey
Mount Wrottesley is the large dome-shaped peak visible across Howe Sound from the Sea-to-Sky Highway, Cypress Mountain resort, most of the Howe Sound Crest Trail, and the UBC area. Like most Vancouverites, I’d seen it hundreds of times, but never … Continue reading
Posted in Climb, Hike, Trip Reports
Tagged Box Canyon, hiking, mountaineering, scrambling, snowshoeing, solo trip, Spring, Sunshine Coast, Weekend, wrottesley
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Mellow lines at Cerise Creek (Steep Lines at Steep Creek Vol. 5)
With a beautiful March 23rd weekend forecast predicting better ski conditions up high, our small but mighty “Steep Lines at Steep Creek” group of four (Alex Barth, Flavia Caprez, Ana Ciocoiu, and myself, Erik Reimers) made the decision to switch … Continue reading
Posted in Huts, Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged Keiths Hut, Mt Matier, Ski Mountaineering, ski touring, Small Group, Spring
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Triple D (donut) Ride · April 29th
I saw this ambitious expedition pitched as a Triple D. Researching into the International French Adjectival System (IFAS), a regular D: difficile (difficult) represents hard, more serious with rock climbing at IV and V, snow and ice slopes at 50-70 … Continue reading
Posted in Cycle, Other, Trip Reports
Tagged bike, cycling, Deep Cove, donuts, First-Trip, Small Group, Social, Spring
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Burton Hut Money Box Installation (June 17-18, 2018)
On June 17 we set out to Burton Hut. We went on the Rubble Creek Trail. Garibaldi Lake was melted out, so we had to do the dumbest trip ever. We first went on Taylor Meadows. We could see the … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, backcountry, Black Tusk, british columbia, Burton Hut, Epic, Garibaldi Lake, Garibaldi Park, Glacier, Helm Creek, hike, hiking, huts, Marmots, Mt. Garibaldi, overnight, Phyllis Engine, provincial park, ski, ski touring, skiing, skitouring, Small Group, Snow, Sphinx Bay, Sphinx Hut, Spring, Suffering, sunny, Taylor Meadows, Weekend, Workhike
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Easter limping out of Phelix Hut
Easter limping out of Phelix Hut The day I heard that there were mountains named after Lord of the rings characters, I knew that I wanted to go there sometime. Luckily Robert Lachance organised a Skiing trip to Phelix Hut … Continue reading
Posted in Accidents, Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged accident, Easter Weekend, large group, Mt Aragon, Phelix Hut, ski touring, Spring
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North Shore Triple Crown
Nick: “My butt hurts”. Me: “There’s a reason for that – it’s because you’ve been able to sit down”. We joked as we strapped our skis back onto our bikes for the last time, just before sunset outside the “Crazy … Continue reading
Posted in Trip Reports
Tagged bike touring, bike trip, car-free, cycling, Cypress, North Vancouver, self propelled, Seymour, ski, ski touring, skiing, Spring
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Stairs: An account of the Baden Powell Trail
After waking up at the obscenely early time of 5:30am on a Saturday, I made my way to the bus stop, hopped on to the first bus that came by and struggled not to fall asleep as I made my … Continue reading
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Tagged Baden Powell, Baden Powell trail, beginner, beginner-friendly, car-free, day hike, day trip, Dayhiking, daytrip, Deep Cove, ferry, Grouse Mountain, Lynn creek, Lynn valley, Mid Group, North Vancouver, Quarry Rock, rainy, Rainy Day, Spring, sunny, type 2 fun
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Southern Rockies Whitewater Triple Crown: Daisy/Slate/East
Welcome to Crested Butte, Colorado: In spring, the snow melt makes some of the best kayaking in the world. It lasts about a month, then it’s dry. The runs here are steep and high up, cutting through slate out of … 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
Posted in Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged 2wd, Callaghan Lake, Harrison Hut, Pemberton Icefield, rain, ski traverse, skiing, Spring, Suffering
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