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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
Lizzie Creek Cabin New Year’s Trip
Dec 30 – Jan 2, 2017 The skiing around Christmas was awesome this year, with lots of good powder skiing on the North Shore, mostly[…]
Seven Mile Creek Headwaters via Cayoosh Creek
Dec 3-4, 2016 Note: This area sees quite a bit of snowmobile traffic in the mid-season. If you want to ski here, it’s probably best[…]
Rohr Trees
Nov 26-27 This was my first ski trip up to the Duffey this year. I usually like to wait a little bit before the lower[…]
Grouty Ridge East
Nov 19-20, 2016 The last meeting of the South Coast Pie and Beer Club on Grouty Ridge went really well, so I was keen to[…]
Halloween Grouty Ridge Ski Tour
Oct 29-30, 2016 With low expectations for the ski conditions the Halloween weekend, I took a few different steps to hedge against a bad time. I[…]