This version of the Garibaldi Park traverse from the Mount Currie trailhead to Red Heather was based on Christian Veenstra’s route, which linked up the[…]
Fast and Light Al-pie-nism: A Traverse of the Tantalus Range
July 18-19 2020 Trip Report by Nick Matwyuk. Photos and captions by Rich. When I was thinking of a summer trip to do with a[…]
Back of Beyond Buttress – Mount Ichor
September 5, 2020 For some weird reason, Susie decided to drive four hours away from Squamish with me to climb an obscure six and a[…]
South Needle
May 23, 2020 Out of the three Needles north of the Lynn Peak ridge line on the North Shore Mountains, the South Needle is the[…]
Armchair Traverse – Mount Cook to Mount Weart
A Pie to Sky Adventure June 30, 2019 In early summer, Caroline J. and I scrambled the Armchair Traverse, which consists of the ridgeline between[…]
Columbia Icefields Pie-Fecta
May 7-11 2017 Five days, three summits, one dense chocolate pie, lots of sunshine and clouds on the largest icefield in the Canadian Rockies. The[…]
Southern Straits Race Report 2017
The forecast was looking quite favourable for the fast and light boats in the 49th annual Southern Straits race. If the race had started a[…]
Mount Mulligan
Dec 25, 2016 Mount Mulligan is a small summit, mostly forested except where logged (and quite extensively!), just southeast of Squamish. Unlike the Red Heather[…]
Chief Pascall Ski
Jan 21-22, 2017 The South Coast was hammered by the mango express between Jan 16-19, 2017, with a series of warm and wet storms originating from the Philippines.[…]
Cayoosh Mountain – Rock and Roll and North Glacier Ski
Jan 14-15, 2017 I spent two days skiing in the Cayoosh Mountain area of the Duffey Lake Road. It hadn’t snowed since Monday, which was[…]