Who’s up for a last-minute rainy day leg- stretcher? Sunset beach is between Horseshoe Bay and Lions Bay and gives short but steep access up to Cypress. We’ll stay below the snowline and make a little lookout our turnaround spot. It’ll be about 6km and 600m elevation gain. I generally hike at the fast end […]

  3 Mexican Volcanoes Tour                               3  – 12  January 2020 La Malinche   14640 ft / 4462 m       Iztaccihautl   17159 ft / 5230 m       Pico de Orizaba     18491 ft / 5636 m Jan 4 – 7                                               Jan 7 – 9                                             Jan 9 – 11     Friday             3nd Jan              11:20 pm                      Fly […]

This hike is to train for fitness before the ski season. I will be bringing a 60-lb pack and mountaineering boots; I recommend that anyone who is coming bring as much equipment as they bring on their typical winter trips for maximal verisimilitude. The trail is marked the whole way, but, in case you are […]

I’m looking for a help to make a new section of Mamquam summer trail (about 1/2 mile long) past a service road which too needs some elder clearing. It takes about 1 hour from Skookum Creek Dam to get to the point where the work needs to done.

Hike to Capilano mountain. Required gear – ice axe, crampons and knowledge what to do with them as I hear the North Shore is a sheet of ice right now. Helmets are always a good idea. Warm clothes and enough food. Headlight. I will try to find out if snowshoes would be useful for the […]