Event Category: Scramble

  • This trip is for those of us who missed Youliana’s two weeks ago and who are keen to catch the fall colours (and the views) in The North Cascades. (Note: the photo that I used to advertise this post came from https://seattle.curbed.com/maps/fall-foliage-autumn-leaves-trails-seattle. It does not belong to me.) Required experience: cramponing on consolidated snow self-arrest […]

  • Tomyhoi peak in the North Cascades. 21 km, 1450 m elevation gain. Class 3-4 scramble. Upper moderate pace as it is a longish day. Mandatory gear: helmet, ice axe, crampons, head light, passport, pre-filled ArriveCan app. Enough clothes to survive a night in the alpine in a case of emergency.

  • For mentoring program participants only!   Face Mountain Loop, traversing several peaks around the Train Glacier, from camp at Semaphore lakes. Easy day Saturday to camp at Semaphore Lakes area, with a very alpine start Sunday.  Mostly scrambling on rock/scree/talus, with a very short bit of glacier.  Helmet, harness, a few slings, prussiks, a locking biner […]

  • Join us at Fjallraven Broadway for an evening of Arctic adventure and exploration with Dr. Matthew Ayre. The search for the Nova Zembla About this event Join Dr. Matthew Ayre from the Arctic Institute of North America at Fjallraven Vancouver Broadway to hear how a single sentence in a 120-year-old document grew into two unconventional […]