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(Stats include all 7 days)Elevation Gain: 4,388mDistance: 104.8kmTotal Time: 7 daysDates: Sept 3rd to 10th On the morning of the 8th, I woke up after a very restless night of sleep after ascending Mount Davidson the previous night with Andrea. We were now day 6 into our 7 day Chilcotin traverse and this was goingContinue reading “Mount Cunningham”

(Stats include all 7 days)Elevation Gain: 4,388mDistance: 104.8kmTotal Time: 7 daysDates: Sept 3rd to 10th Andrea and I were now on day 4 of our 7 day Chilcotin traverse and we had just finished reaching Mount Solomon the previous day and were now resting around Lizard Lake for the morning. Our plan was to reachContinue reading “Mount Davidson”

(Stats include all 7 days)Elevation Gain: 4,388mDistance: 104.8kmTotal Time: 7 daysDates: Sept 3rd to 10th Mount Solomon is not a particularly coveted objective in the South Chilcotin range, but it is one of the few named summits in the area and it happens to be on the Sheba ridge traverse route (On that note, manyContinue reading “Mount Solomon”

(Stats include all 7 days)Elevation Gain: 4,388mDistance: 104.8kmTotal Time: 7 daysDates: Sept 3rd to 10th For a long while it’s been a goal of mine to do a multi-day ridge traverse in some remote range in BC. I do most summits by a single day push, but I’ve often dreamt of doing a long ridgeContinue reading “Mount Sheba”

Elevation Gain: 1,334mDistance: 14.2kmTotal Time: 13 hours 41 minutesDate: August 28th, 2022 Before heading into Washington for a long weekend, Andrea and I had been searching around for fun alpine objectives to take on. We first settled on doing a few summits in the Washington Pass group, but then decided we should search a bitContinue reading “Vesper Peak”

Elevation Gain: 699mDistance: 11.28km (likely not accurate due to climb)Total Time: 8 hours 58 minutesDate: August 26th, 2022 Andrea and I were originally planning for a 3 day adventure in the Tantalus range in the coming weekend, but a forecasted rain storm on our summit day forced us to call it off. Our back upContinue reading “Liberty Bell Mountain”

Elevation Gain: 1,128mDistance: 15.08kmTotal Time: 12 hours 27 minutesDate: August 21st, 2022 Mount Habrich is a prominent granite summit located just North of the Sky Pilot group and visible along many parts of the Sea2Sky highway. While it offers a scramble route on the NE side, it’s apparently difficult to access and not a veryContinue reading “Mount Habrich”

Elevation Gain: 1,461mDistance: 13.73kmTotal Time: 17 hours 32 minutesDate: August 6th/7th, 2022 Nesakwatch Spires is a dual set of steep granite spires located in the southern end of the Chilliwack Valley and the immediate neighbors of Mount Rexford. This area is super popular among alpine climbers thanks to a number of challenging, aesthetic routes upContinue reading “Nesakwatch Spires”

Elevation Gain: 2,186mDistance: 25.42kmTotal Time: 3 daysDate: July 31st, 2022Stats include all days in the Vayu Massif area Elise, Derek and myself were now on our third and final day exploring the Vayu Massif area. We arrived into the area on the 31st with enough beta to succeed in ascending Mount Vayu’s NW Ridge andContinue reading “Bhima Peak”

Elevation Gain: 2,186mDistance: 25.42kmTotal Time: 3 daysDate: July 31st, 2022Stats include all days in the Vayu Massif area Vayu E1 is a smaller neighbor to Mount Vayu easily accessed via the south col. While the peak doesn’t have it’s own official name, it does possess ~176m of prominence and so that makes it eligible forContinue reading “Vayu E1”