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July 5, 2013

Numa Mountain

Friday July 05 2013 was a perfect day to escape Calgary (Stampede parade day...) so a group us did...
June 15, 2013

King Creek Ridge (Kiska tha Iyarhe)

On Saturday, June 15, 2013 I took my family up King Creek Ridge for a pleasant hike in beautiful...
June 8, 2013

Erickson, Mount

On Saturday, June 8 2013 I was joined by Wietse, Steven, Ben, Mike, Andrea and Raf for a group...
June 1, 2013

Armor Peak

Spurred on by a recent trip report on ClubTread from Jose and Fabrice, I decided that Armor Peak would...
May 10, 2013

Crystal Ridge

After traversing Parker Ridge earlier in the day, I found myself with plenty of time and a gorgeous spring...
May 10, 2013

Parker Ridge

Admittedly, after standing on the summits of 3 11,000ers only a few days previous, "Parker Ridge" does seem a...
May 5, 2013

Snow Dome

After ascending Mount Kitchener in the morning, we casually packed up camp and started heading back out, around the...
May 5, 2013

Kitchener, Mount

The day after our exciting ascent of West Twin and attempt at South Twin (including a crevasse incident) we...
May 3, 2013

South Twin Peak – Attempt

After successfully summiting West Twin we were excited to finally nab the final of the four Twin peaks on...
May 3, 2013

West Twin Peak

In 2012 I made my first attempts at peaks on the massive playground of rock, snow and ice that's...
April 26, 2013

Survey Peak

On April 26 2013 I joined Steven Song for an ascent of Survey Peak along the icefields parkway at...
April 22, 2013

Wilson, Mount

Mount Wilson has been on my radar for a long time already, ever since one of my first trips...
April 21, 2013

Big Bend Peak & Mount Saskatchewan Junior

On Sunday, April 21 2013 I joined Steven, Ben and Eric on a two peak day in which we...
April 12, 2013

Boom Mountain

Since reading about Josee and Fabrice's trip up Boom Mountain in February it's been on my to-do list. I...
March 30, 2013

Massive Mountain

Back in February 2013, Raf and So managed to negotiate a ski route up Massive Mountain that sounded much...
March 29, 2013

Volcano Peak (Little McDougall)

After reading that Jose and Fabrice had kindly set down a 'shoe track on Volcano Peak in late March...
March 10, 2013

Lawson, Little (South End of Lawson)

In my rant on the Mount Fortune trip I made it pretty clear what I think of invented peak...
March 9, 2013

Fortune, Mount

Mount Fortune is one of those peaks that's best saved for a day when you really don't have many...
February 23, 2013

Red Ridge

Kev Papke was getting close to his year-long, 50 peak fundraising effort and was in need of 4 peaks...
February 10, 2013

Emerald Peak

After reading a number of trip reports over the years on Emerald Peak in Yoho National Park, I was...
February 2, 2013

Smutwood Peak – Ski Tour

For the past few years, I've had Smutwood Peak on my radar. I originally wanted to do it in...
January 26, 2013

Pigs Back

So how does one end up on a peak about 4km due east of one's original objective when one...
January 5, 2013

Haffner, Mount

Summit Elevation (m): 2514Trip Date: January 5 2013Elevation Gain (m): 1100Round Trip Time (hr): 7Total Trip Distance (km): 10Quick ‘n Easy Rating: Class...