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[…]
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[…]