Posts and Trip Reports

After a couple of very long and full days spent on a 5th recorded ascent of Mount McConnell, deep...

Mount McConnell is one of those peaks that got onto my mountain list somehow and just stayed hovering somewhere...

I somehow convinced Hanneke to join me at least to North Molar Pass and we set out on a...

Day 6 was the last day of the group trip and the first day of my solo effort. It...

As usual for WCPP over the past few trips, all of our pre-planning kind of went out the window...

After a ~900m descent from our Alcantara / Brussilof bivy, I was feeling pretty bagged for some reason. I...

There really wasn't a choice, was there? After a successful, and fun, ascent of Mount Brussilof we almost had to take advantage of...

Somehow, despite planning a trip into the Lyell Icefield to climb the last of the Lyells (IV) that I...

After scrambling Silverhorn Mountain solo on Friday the 13th of July and going to Canmore for supper with Phil...

Long before Andrew Nugara made Silverhorn Mountain much more popular than previously with his new guidebook, I'd been interested...

Summit Elevation (m): 2965Trip Date: Sunday, July 8, 2018Elevation Gain (m): 2400Round Trip Time (hr): 18Total Trip Distance (km): 42Reference Trip: Police MeadowsQuick...

As we were ascending Simpson Ridge to the NW of Simpson Peak, we kept looking for possible routes that...

For years now I've wondered what the Police Meadows were like. There isn't very much written about this place...

As of July 2018, Simpson Ridge had been on Phil and my peak hit list for more than a...

While standing on many of the peaks lining the Sunshine Meadows area in Banff National Park, one's eyes are...

For some reason, Fatigue Mountain had been on my radar for many years by the time 2018 rolled around....

After successfully completing my second ascent of the diminutive Citadel Peak (with it's not-so-small views), Phil and I returned...

On a beautiful sunny, wintry May 1, 2011 I was joined by Raf and Mel on a ski trip...

After our trip up Mount Morrison and Owl Peak earlier in the week, Phil and I had been thinking...

As we traversed to the summit of Mount Currie, my eyes were immediately drawn to a distinctive ridge running...

After being only the 6th summit party in the last 31 years to stand on Mount Morrison's summit, Phil...

Ever since skiing Mount Turner (Morrison's slightly higher neighbor to the north) in April of 2017 my stoke for...

Since we were camping in the area over the weekend of June 15, I decided I might as well...