Category: Skiing

Feb 18, 2025 The day was quintessentially coastal with the looming fog. We skied down through the fog traversing our way to Ledgeling Couloir and started bootpacking up. The moist coastal snow was supportive and secure without crampons. Topping out the couloir we headed east along the ridge through two short third class steps. The…

Feb 9-12 2025 Day 1 – Bow Lake to Bow Hut (7km 490m) Knowing we had a short approach we started off in the afternoon by Bow Lake. The wind ripped across the lake and through my softshell, making me question whether the views would be worth the forecasted -30 lows. The approach was straightforward…

January 28, 2025 The dry January had us skiing bulletproof crusts and waiting for snow. Seeing a trip report from Alan Blair on Peakbaggers, I was surprised to see how good the coverage was in this low elevation couloir. I headed out with Mait and Darrion to try and get this somewhat obscure line. We…

Dec 31st, 2024 With high hopes of stable cold storm snow Darrion and I headed off the Ledge basin to try for the “longest” couloir (about 400m vertical drop) in the Ledge/Sky Pilot group. Nai couloir is tucked away out of view from the rest of the basin, so we didn’t quite know what we…

May 14-15, 2024. Via Coleman-Deming Route. Growing up in Vancouver I have looked up at Baker my whole life, it seems natural to want to climb it. It has been on my list for years, but never quite happened. With a cruiser itinerary spending the night up there we skipped the eye watering alpine start…

March 24, 2024 After very little backcountry skiing this March due to tumultuous weather and wild avalanche conditions we were excited to have a perfect looking weather window for a day long traverse. We decided on the Spearhead Traverse, the weather really only looked good enough for a single day push, but I was looking…

February 16-17, 2024 The Big Howie couloir takes a proud line down the NE face of Mt. Howard. It starts at a notch in the ridge, goes down a steep couloir for about 300m then opens up onto a small pocket glacier before making it’s way through a series of cliff bands for a total…

Feb 6, 2024 Eager to get out skiing the promise of blue skies and stable avalanche conditions lured us into trying to ski the widespread boilerplate crusts from the recent pineapple express. We left Vancouver early headed for the Duffy and Cayoosh Mountain. After the drive up, we had our skis on heading up the…