Posts and Trip Reports

I knew I was overdoing it when making plans for Sunday October 6th 2019. I tried to recruit a...

As I tossed and turned in the pitch black night, I found myself wondering (and not for the first...

Trip Date: Monday, September 23 2019 Round Trip Time (hr): 4.5 Total Elevation Gain (m): 750 Total Trip Distance (km):...

An unbelievable smorgasbord of bubbling brooks, golden larches, high passes, rushing streams, waterfalls, glistening alpine lakes, hidden routes, ancient...

A quick, fun, moderate scramble up Mount Lillian over Buller Pass in Kananaskis Country during larch season, somewhat tempered...

After spending just under 4 hours to the summit of Phillipps Peak earlier in the day, it felt a...

I highly enjoyed and highly recommend Phillipps Peak for scramblers looking for a short and somewhat challenging scramble in...

A long awaited journey to the summit of the highest peak in the huge Castle Mountain massif with views...

Honestly, I'm not sure what I was expecting from our day on Clearwater Mountain but in the end it...

People might wonder what the big deal is for me and these silly peaks that few people are even...

A long awaited journey up one of Banff's more remote and hard to access mountains.

A 3.5 day journey into the heart of Banff National Park triangulated by the Pipestone, Clearwater and Siffleur Rivers.

Summit Elevation (m): 2758, 2560 Trip Date: Saturday, August 31, 2019 Round Trip Time (hr): 9 Elevation Gain (m):...

Arete Peak has been on my radar for a while now. When I ended up with a midweek day...

When the dust finally settled on our Saturday plans it was Wietse, Cornelius, Richard, Trevor and I leaving the...

Obviously this is an unofficial summit but I don't care about that sort of thing anymore. I expected some...

From the col we looked up at the obvious "boulder gully". We put on our helmets as it looked...

Was it really possible that the mountain was so often ascended yet we could find no trip reports other...

As Kaycie and I lay in our tent on the first morning of our 15 day canoe trip in...

After biking, hiking and scrambling for many hours and many kilometers in the past 28 hours or so it...

When we crested Shale Pass we were surprised by the dramatic NE aspect of Chirp Peak with its unique...

Finally, after 1.5 hours of steep hiking we topped out on a high point on the southwest ridge with...

After enjoying a nice supper break at our Tomahawk Pass bivy site, Joanna, Phil and I set off up...