Category Archives: Trip Reports

Elevation Gain: 1,074mDistance: 17.71kmTotal Time: 6 hours 17 minutesDate: October 1st, 2023 After spending the night in Hart’s Pass, Andrea and I still had one more day to take advantage of the good weather. She had diligently planned a number of options for us and now it just came down to what we were inContinue reading “Trappers Peak”

Elevation Gain: 1516mDistance: 14.85kmTotal Time: 8 hours 35 minutesDate: October 22nd, 2023 Mount Seton is the tallest summit in the Cayoosh Range and generally a straightforward hike/scramble to the top. However, since 2021 it’s been marred by access issues as the first bridge on Downton Creek FSR was condemned by district officials. This also happenedContinue reading “Mount Seton”

Elevation Gain: 1,102mDistance: 11.29kmTotal Time: 7 hours 21 minutesDate: October 21st, 2023 Torrent Peak is an unofficially named summit on the eastern outskirts sandwiched between the Pemberton Icefield and the western end of the Rutherford Creek valley. I had never heard of this summit until Maria from SWBC Peak Baggers had blazed a trail toContinue reading “Torrent Peak”

Elevation Gain: 2602mDistance: 22.93kmTotal Time: 9 hours 21 minutesDate: October 12th, 2023 I’ve seen Mount Robie Reid’s twin summits from dozens of vantage points around the nearby ranges and most memorably from an early morning ascent of the distant Fire Spires. Just shy of 2100m it requires a further still 2600m of elevation gain toContinue reading “Mount Robie Reid”

Elevation Gain: 742mDistance: 10.5kmTotal Time: 4 hours 2 minutesDate: September 30th, 2023 Andrea, Brittany and myself had headed into the Washington Pass area for the long weekend to make an ascent of Cutthroat Peak’s South Buttress. We had scrambled all the way up to the final ridge below the buttress before deciding to bail asContinue reading “Cone Mountain”

Elevation Gain: 742mDistance: 10.5kmTotal Time: 4 hours 2 minutesDate: September 30th, 2023 Syncline Mountain is the tallest summit along the connecting ridge from Cone Mountain to Handcock Ridge. It was our final stop on a fun ramble through the Hart’s Pass area and I’d be heading up alone while Andrea and Brittany waited for meContinue reading “Syncline Mountain”

Elevation Gain: 742mDistance: 10.5kmTotal Time: 4 hours 2 minutesDate: September 30th, 2023 From Cone Mountain, Andrea, Brittany and I did some ski screeing and then a short bushwhack down to the col of Tatie Peak. The PCT trail briefly met us at the ridge line before dipping back along the south slopes of Tatie Peak.Continue reading “Tatie Peak”

Elevation Gain: 653mDistance: 8.70kmTotal Time: 5 hours 55 minutes (including lake hike and hang out)Date: September 10th, 2023 Gotcha Peak is the smaller neighbor to Gott Peak at the head of the Blowdown Creek valley. It’s easily accessed from the north via Blowdown Pass and is often combined with Gott Peak in a single day.Continue reading “Gotcha Peak”

Elevation Gain: 1,053mDistance: 13.55kmTotal Time: 6 hours 29 minutesDate: September 9th, 2023 When I originally set foot into the Blowdown Pass area, my plan had been to ascend Gott Peak and then continue traversing all the way West to Moomin Peak. However, after summitting Gott Peak and seeing Moomin, still a longs way off, IContinue reading “Moomin Peak”

Elevation Gain: 1,190mDistance: 10.86kmTotal Time: 9 hours 38 minutesDate: September 21st, 2023 Mount Sloan is sprawling granitic complex of massive ridges, ribs and buttresses that sits on the southern shores of Downton Lake. At 2720m it’s one of the taller summits in SWBC, but it has company with the likes of Mount Truax, Dickson PeakContinue reading “Mount Sloan”