Posts and Trip Reports

If you've read my Cockscomb Mountain trip report, you should not be surprised that it's been weeks since my...

The sun was hot and the sky was "summer blue" as we drove the dusty, bumpy, rocky road that...

Cockscomb Mountain has a few things going for it. No matter how many peaks you've done, as long as...

On Friday, June 3rd 2016, I found myself in the back of Ben’s SUV, turning off the Trans Canada Highway...

After easily hiking to the top of Mount Baldy near Beauvais Lake in the Castle Wilderness, we turned our...

After scrambling Prairie Bluff and hiking Mount Backus the day before, the kids and I woke up on Sunday...

After scrambling Prairie Bluff in the morning, we found ourselves with plenty of time for a short objective on...

After squandering a perfectly good weekend, followed by a disappointing May long weekend, I was more than ready for...

For Mother's Day 2016, Hanneke wanted to go hiking. That was fine with me! After doing a bit of...

I've been dreaming of climbing the highest peak in Banff National Park and 8th highest in the Canadian Rockies...

I wasn't sure that I would manage to summit my last 11,000er on the main Columbia Icefield in the...

As I lay in my truck at the Kinney Lake parking lot I could hear the Robson River gurgling...

After building our camp, it was obvious that Resplendent wasn't a go for Saturday. Clouds were intermittently covering the...

Thrift Peak has been on my radar for a while now, it was cemented as an objective while on...

Summit Elevation (m): 2453Trip Date: March 05 2016Elevation Gain (m): 1500Round Trip Time (hr): 11Total Trip Distance (km): 25Quick ‘n Dirty Rating: Class...

I still wasn't feeling 100% on the last weekend of February 2016. I decided that the forecast was too...

After I wasted almost 4 hours of driving the weekend before, I was 'ready' to once again make the...

On Sunday, February 7 2016 I finally managed to get out to Abraham Lake along Hwy 11 in David...

On Sunday, January 24, 2016 I was joined by Mike Mitchell for a long ski tour up Unity Peak...

Phil Richards and I decided that Commonwealth Ridge would make a nice first summit of 2016 - and we...

Originally I was planning to attempt skiing Little Galatea, an outlier of the much larger Mount Galatea. After Matt...

Despite a very chilly forecast, Wietse, Bill and I decided that we'd brave the -20 degree temps near Sunshine...

After taking some time away from summits after my busiest year yet in the Rockies, I felt it was...