Event Category: Mountaineering

  • Sky Pilot is a 4th to low 5th class mountaineering objective located off the sea-to-sky highway near Squamish. I’ve marked the weekend as it’s too early to know the weather, but this will likely take a single day. Which weekend day (Saturday or Sunday) can be decided a couple weeks before the attempt once we […]

  •   Blanchard peak is an impressive looking peak in Golden Ears park.  Unlike the park’s namesake, there’s no hiking route up.  The plan is ascend fly gully, then climb the peak (mostly a scramble, with 20m of 5.4), before descending over Alouette Mountain.  We will likely pitch out the 5.4 section See this trip report: […]

  • About the organizers: Valentina and I have recently completed the Basic Mountaineering course with ACC and this will be our first mountaineering experience outside the class. Valentina has experience in lead sport and trad climbing.This will be her first time in the North Cascades as an organizer. I have hiked to Hannegan peak (near Ruth […]