hiking Hkusam Mountain - August 3 2024 The lowest and easiest of the 4 ultras on Vancouver Island. This is a short and sweet objective with great views and great prominence for the stats nerds. Definitely worth a visit!
hiking Mount Brew - July 28 2024 A decently long hike up to a very prominent mountain looking over Lillooet and The Duffey. The trail is a bit primitive, and there's a little scrambling, but a wonderful ridge to a p1000 peak is definitely worth it
scrambling The Copilot - July 27 2024 A fun, slightly more challenging sub-peak of Sky Pilot in Squamish. Plus, if you're willing to haul some skis up, you can get some surprisingly late-season turns!
hiking Train Glacier Traverse - July 21 2024 A fun little traverse with quick alpine access and good scrambling in Pemberton above the popular Semaphore Lakes area, popular amongst hikers and campers
hiking Evans Peak - July 14 2024 A small and easily-accessed peak in Golden Ears Provincial Park, this is a digestible, though somewhat steep, hike for those not looking for a full-day outing. It can be combined with other mountains to get a longer outing, though.
hiking Beauty Peak - July 13 2024 A fairly short, slightly bushy side-trip along the Crown Mountain trail. Access is a bit of a grey area, and while the views are good, they're not unique, so this is only for the ardent peakbaggers out there
hiking Crown Mountain - July 13 2024 The high point of the Grouse Mountain group of mountains, Crown is deceptively difficult due to the ups/downs required to get there (especially if you don't take the gondola up). The standard route is fairly non-technical, but harder routes are also available
scrambling Canadian Border Peak - July 7 2024 A fun, challenging scramble on the northern of the two Border Peaks, which straddle the US-Canada border near Chilliwack, BC and Glacier, WA
hiking Church Mountain - July 6 2024 A short and sweet hike to a nice viewpoint, and a fun scramble to the true summit for the adventure-inclined, with lots of options to make things as challenging as desired
hiking Broken Top - July 1 2024 A fun scramble peak, though with a bit of a long approach. Doing it in spring on skis can make that approach fun instead of tedious, though we were a bit too late for that
hiking Lava Butte (Oregon) - June 30 2024 A small cinder cone south of Bend. It isn't particularly impressive, but it offers an easy summit for die-hard peakbaggers, and an accessible viewpoint for everyone else
ski mountaineering Mount Bachelor - June 30 2024 A nice, fairly prominent Cascade Volcano near Bend, Oregon. The easiest way up is to shell out for a lift ticket during ski season, but coming up for a late June ski tour is a pretty cool option too (and cheaper!)
ski mountaineering Mount Ronayne (Y Couloir) - June 28 2024 A fun ski objective that holds snow quite late into the year, and is a p600 to boot for the prominence-oriented peakbagger with a penchant for skiing
hiking Sawchuk Peak - June 21 2024 A first internet ascent for me, otherwise a short (if you can drive all the way) and steep bushwhack+scramble with some pretty decent views
hiking Brohm Hill - June 20 2024 A small, forested, bushwhacky bump near Brohm Lake, not worth visiting unless you're a dedicated peakbagger in need of a quick+dirty p100
hiking South and Middle Needles (North Vancouver) - June 16 2024 2/3 of the needles (ran out of time), a classic ridge hike+scramble in North Vancouver, commonly chained with Lynn Peak in a long hike, or done as a bike+hike by approaching on the Seymour Valley Bike Trail
trashbagging Mount Lolo - June 10 2024 A p600 just northeast of Kamloops, but with a rather uninteresting ascent (it can be driven probably even in a 2WD vehicle, with a minute or two of tress-walking to get the true summit)
ski mountaineering McCrae Peak - June 9 2024 A fun ski peak with some spicy scrambling (at least in shoulder season) to top out. p600 for those who are into that. Plus, the road goes up super high so you can skin to/from the car even in June!
hiking Wild Horse Peak - June 2 2024 A small sub-peak on Wild Horse Ridge, which is the way up to Mount Kerr, the top of the Marble Range near Lillooet, BC. A nice tack-on peak to the day for the ardent peakbagger
hiking Mount Kerr - June 2 2024 A scenic p1000 peak at the top of the Marble Range and the so-named Provincial Park. Or so I hear, we went up on a rather stormy day. A nice, straightforward hike for those seeking a pleasant day out, or something to do on a less-pleasant one that isn't technical
hiking Bear Mountain - June 1 2024 A simple but long hike near Harrison Hot Springs with decent views along the way. Bikes would definitely be the best way to have fun here, though
hiking Mount Agassiz - June 1 2024 A p600 near Agassiz with no real trail, but some fun offroad driving on the way, and the hike is short and simple despite the lack of trail. Good for a rainy day IMO
hiking Sumas Mountain Peaks (Abbotsford) - May 25 2024 There are 6 peaks with 100m of prominence in the Sumas Mountain massif in Abbotsford, BC. Sumas Peak is the highest, but if you're going there, you may as well catch em all!
ski mountaineering Mount Thielsen - May 20 2024 Quite an excellent ski mountaineering objective. Parking right off the highway, pretty short approach which should be skiable as long as there is snow, fun skiing, and a cool summit scramble. Plus over 1000m of prominence for the stat nerds :)
ski mountaineering Mount McLoughlin - May 19 2024 A peak I first saw driving home from California in 2022, a gorgeous triangular skier's paradise rising right over a beautiful lake, I knew I had to come and ski it. I was right, one definitely needs to ski this mountain at some point in their life
