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Elevation Gain: 3,383mDistance: 35.89kmTotal Time: 33 hours (across two days)Date: March 18th, 2023 Mount Breakenridge is the highly visible and prominent summit at the north end of Harrison Lake. It rises over 2300m above the lake where a multi-kilometer snow/ice field rests on its broad summit flanks. Hidden further beyond on the north end ofContinue reading “Mount Breakenridge”

Elevation Gain: 945mDistance: 12.07kmTotal Time: 6 hours 47 minutesDate: March 11th, 2023 Mount Chief Pascall is one of the smaller summits in the Joffre Group/Duffey Lake area, but that is by no means a detractor. It’s an exceptionally popular peak owing to a short 10-12km round trip and sub-1000m elevation gain. However, it’s most popularContinue reading “Mount Chief Pascall”

Elevation Gain: 1,295mDistance: 22.13kmTotal Time: 6 hours 46 minutesDate: February 16th, 2023 I saw Silverdaisy Mountain for the first time while making an ascent of Mount Brice with Matt, Steven, Elise and Chris back in early January. Elise and I had actually been planning to do a ski ascent of it, but changed our plansContinue reading “Silverdaisy Mountain”

Elevation Gain: 1,161mDistance: 14.75kmTotal Time: 7 hours 29 minutesDate: February 12th, 2023 Silver Peak is one of many interesting summits that dot the busy Snoqualmie Pass area in Washington. It stands at ~1708m, boasting over 600m of prominence and offering an excellent vantage over the Alpental Area. Elise had suggested we do it as aContinue reading “Silver Peak”

Elevation Gain: 966mDistance: 12.74kmTotal Time: 6 hours 19 minutesDate: January 27th, 2023 Gin Peak is a rather small summit located just West of the Whistler ski village. It’s a super popular ski touring destination with a well established up-track and numerous ski lines down. For those reasons, it really caught my attention for the upcomingContinue reading “Gin Peak”

Elevation Gain: 1,152mDistance: 21.19kmTotal Time: 8 hours 59 minutesDate: January 20th, 2023 Andrea and her friend Nicole were planning to do a ski touring objective around the Sea2Sky area in the coming week and had invited me to join along. They were having a hard time coming up with an objective and so that’s whenContinue reading “Telemagique”

Elevation Gain: 2045mDistance: 22.93kmTotal Time: 8 hours 47 minutesDate: February 9th, 2023 Mount McLean towers 1000 plus meters above the Seton Lake area at a total height 2427m. It’s the highest summit in the Mission Ridge and presides in the wind scoured rain shadow of the coast mountains. The summit is not particularly challenging fromContinue reading “Mount McLean”

Elevation Gain: 629mDistance: 11.92kmTotal Time: 4 hours 24 minutesDate: January 10th, 2023 After a massive outing on Mount Brice, I was in need of a break. However, I was still keen to get out on my skis and do something in the coming days. Andrea was ready to join me and we settled on theContinue reading “Iago Peak”

Elevation Gain: 2,268mDistance: 33.82kmTotal Time: 11 hours 20 minutesDate: January 5th, 2023 Mount Brice is a bit of an obscure peak located in the odd void between the Skagit Valley and Manning Provincial Parks. Historically the area has been used for mining and logging, especially further North near Claimstake and Silverdaisy Peak. Brice itself, seesContinue reading “Mount Brice”

Elevation Gain: 357mDistance: 6kmTotal Time: 1 hour 42 minuteDate: March 28th, 2022 Kelowna had one more nice day in the forecast, before I was slated to head back to Vancouver. So, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to do another summit with views around the Okanagan. My mom was keen to join in again andContinue reading “Spion Kop”