Tareef's Mountain Misadventures

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Mount Cheam - August 20 2022

Cheam Range, Chilliwack, BC 2104m After the previous weekend's "incident", I needed a more relaxed objective I could do without risking any high-impact events that'd get my family/doctors even more mad at me w/ my rib injury. I also got into a thread on Facebook not-too-long ago where someone

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Yukness Mountain - August 14 2022

Bow Range, Yoho, BC 2851m After failing to bag Huber and Victoria in spectacular fashion, I was hurting for a consolation peak before we headed out from Lake O'Hara for the day. So, I set my sights on Yukness, and after some convincing, I got Logan on board, while Amour

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Huber Ledges (Failed Attempt at Mount Huber + Mount Victoria)

Yoho, BC After a long trek up the Lake O'Hara Fire Road and a short detour up Wiwaxy Peak, our party (me, Logan, and our friend Amour) had to get up the Huber Ledges to make camp, and maybe make an attempt on Huber before the end of our Saturday

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Wiwaxy Peak - August 13 2022

Bow Range, Yoho, BC 2703m For the last weekend of our 2022 "Month in the Rockies", we wanted to go out with a bang. Despite my general avoidance of overnighters due to my digestive condition, I was feeling good enough that I could do a night without being miserable, and

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Mount Hector - August 6 2022

Murchison Group, Banff, Alberta 3394m After getting our toes wet in glacier travel and feeling like "real mountaineers" back on Mount Garibaldi, we'd been itching for some more ever since. So, shortly after starting our 2022 "month in the Rockies" trip, we joined an 11,000ers group in the hopes

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Big Sister (Faith Peak) - August 1 2022

South Banff Ranges, Canmore, Alberta 2936m Being the last day of the Civic Holiday long weekend, and with us having very intentionally bagged The Judge on Saturday to give us a buffer day of rest (and to let our least scramble-friendly group member head home from our Canmore Airbnb for

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The Judge - July 30 2022

Brisco Range, Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia 2739m For our civic holiday weekend, we knew there had to be a couple peaks bagged, at least. So, Saturday+Monday made the most sense, since rest is somewhat useful. As for what to do, since the 4th member of our group was

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Big Beehive - July 24 2022

Bow Range, Lake Louise, Alberta 2270m This was the final peak on my "Lake Agnes Circuit", bagging all the peaks surrounding the aforementioned lake in one grueling day. This report picks up from the Devil's Thumb, where I started making my way down toward the Big Beehive at about 9:

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Devil's Thumb - July 24 2022

Bow Range, Lake Louise, Alberta 2458m This was the 5th stop on my go at the Lake Agnes circuit, my name for the route bagging all 6 peaks around Lake Agnes in a counterclockwise rotation. Since this was near the end of the day, is a very popular peak, and

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Mount Whyte - July 24 2022

Bow Range, Lake Louise, Alberta 2290m This is the fourth summit on the "Agnes Circuit" challenge, continuing from Mount Niblock, so check that (and the mountains previous) for the approach. Starting from the peak of Niblock just before 3pm (about 9 hours into the day), we headed back down the

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Mount Niblock - July 24 2022

Bow Range, Lake Louise, Alberta 2976m This being the third peak on my "Lake Agnes Circuit" challenge, this report continues from Mount St Piran. We left the summit at about 8:20am, and started our way down the scree/choss field on the west side of St Piran to the

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Mount St Piran - July 24 2022

Bow Range, Lake Louise, Alberta 2633m After a quick bag of Little Beehive (trip context and report to that point can be found there), we felt pretty good and wanted to continue our pace, so just after 7am we departed from the peak of Little Beehive and made our way

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Little Beehive - July 24 2022

Bow Range, Lake Louise, Alberta 2210m After the last hike our little "work remotely in the Rockies" group did (Sanson Peak and Sulphur Mountain), we came to understand that we definitely needed to find places that had objectives for the 2 levels of our party. So, after quite too long

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Sulphur Mountain - July 21 2022

South Banff Ranges, Banff, Alberta 2440m This report is a continuation of Sanson Peak, which we bagged prior to Sulphur. We departed the gondola top-station at about 7pm, around an hour after our 2 friends who got a head start by choosing to forego Sanson. We didn't know where they

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Sanson Peak - July 21 2022

South Banff Ranges, Banff, Alberta 2270m After giving myself a few days to rest after bagging Three Sisters in Fernie, by Thursday my heels had healed up enough I felt like I could go out again, so the four of us (Me, Logan, and 2 of our friends from Ontario)

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Three Sisters (Fernie) - July 16 2022

Harrison Ranges, Fernie, British Columbia 2788m This outing was quite the confluence of plans/events. Many months ago, me and a couple friends made plans to rent a place in Canmore for a month to be able to bag some peaks out there for a month (though the current snowpack

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Mt Garibaldi - July 9-10 2022

Coast Mountains, Squamish, British Columbia 2675m Picking up from the first day and a half in the Brohm Peak trip report, we departed Brohm peak, and made our way up to high camp. The hike is not very eventful, we walked along a rocky ridge with snow on either side

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Brohm Peak - July 8-9 2022

Coast Mountains, Squamish, British Columbia 1948m Before our upcoming trip to the Rockies for a month of (less than anticipated, thanks late-season snow) shenanigans in a different locale, Logan and I decided to knock some glacier training out of the way. Of course, just taking a course is boring, and

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Panorama Ridge - July 2 2022

Coast Mountains, Squamish, British Columbia 2133m After tackling Brandywine Mountain yesterday, I was still rearing to not waste the weekend. I booked a climbing course on Sunday to hopefully ready myself for some Rockies shenanigans during my upcoming trip there in mid-July, but needed something I figured would be a

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Brandywine Mountain - July 1 2022

Coast Mountains, Squamish, British Columbia 2213m Finally, a peak Steven Song hasn't bagged yet! With my main partner-in-crime gone for the weekend, but the weather looking great and it being a 3-day weekend, I knew I couldn't sit around at home. Plus on Canada Day, what's more Canadian than bagging

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Columnar Peak - June 12 2022

Garibaldi Neve, Squamish, British Columbia 1826m After taking last weekend off to rest my injured ankle, I was rearing to go this weekend. I had a couple friends coming in from Ontario to come adventuring, so I made sure we were able to go despite the late snow. Snowshoes and

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Round Mountain - June 12 2022

Coast Mountains, Squamish, British Columbia 1646m This weekend I had a bunch of family come to town, so that means getting together for dinner, various to-dos to for various people, etc. So this Sunday, I had only a few hours to get a hike in before heading down to the

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Little Horn Mountain - June 4 2022

Coast Mountains, Anmore, British Columbia 451m This is a continuation of our Journey along Dilly-Dally loop, specifically the 5th and last peak on our trip, picking up from the TR for Dilly Dally Summit. Until this point, with the exception of the bushwhacky, unmarked, and disappointing mess that is Eagle

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Dilly Dally Summit - June 4 2022

Coast Mountains, Anmore, British Columbia 1272m This is a continuation of our Journey along Dilly-Dally loop, specifically the 4th peak on our trip, picking up from the TR for Mount Beautiful. This was also a fairly short segment, about 50 minutes from peak-to-peak. There's honestly not a whole lot to

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Mount Beautiful - June 4 2022

Coast Mountains, Anmore, British Columbia 1261m This is a continuation of our Journey along Dilly-Dally loop, specifically the 2nd peak on our trip, picking up from the TR for Tangled Summit. It is also a fairly short one. This was a fairly uneventful 45 minute trek from the previous peak.