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Continue reading →: Frenchman Coulee, April 2026If climbing basalt columns in a desert landscape shaped by volcanic fire and ice-age floods is your idea of a long weekend spent well, then Frenchman Coulee in Central Washington would not disappoint. I found myself there over the Easter weekend, as part of a BCMC climbing trip organized by…
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Continue reading →: Blackcomb Peak via DOA Route, August 2025A trip report of the Blackcomb Peak climb via DOA route near Whistler, BC – an alpine rock climb involving Class 4 scrambling and a 5.7 final pitch
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Continue reading →: Armchair Traverse, BC, July 2025A trip report of the Armchair Traverse in BC — a sustained Class 3/4 alpine scramble connecting Mount Cook and Mount Weart above Wedgemount Lake near Whistler.
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Continue reading →: Bryce Canyon, November 2015It was pitch black inside the tent. The air was freezing – it had to – it was 14 degrees below zero degree Celsius. Almost like two soldiers on guard duty through the night, my legs and hands were alternately getting cold and numb. As if, the total warmth inside…
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Continue reading →: Mt. Rainier via Emmons Glacier, July 2015The Sun had just peeped a little above the horizon, which was lit up faintly with a familiar reddish orange glow. The bright blob was aligned to the right of the center of the horizon, with the foreground still under the blanket of semidarkness. With each passing minute, we could…
