Coast Range Outdoors
Trip Reports, Tips, and Photography
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After the first week of November, conditions deteriorated and skiing all but stopped for a few weeks. Freezing levels hovered around the 1800-2000m mark, with heavy rain below and heavy snow in the high alpine. Fast forward to the last week of November, the high alpine in the Sea to Sky had anywhere from 1.5…
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Tyler, Peggy and I went up to Metal Dome to see if we could sneak in some early-November turns. It has been a great start to the season! When we arrived at the juction for Metal Dome on the Brandywine FSR, there were about a dozen other vehicles parked. It was great to see so…
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Recently, we’ve had a series of storms hit the South Coast that have dumped 50-100cm’s of snow in the higher terrain from Squamish through Pemberton. I felt pretty sure that there wasn’t enough snow to ski, but the night before this trip I saw a social media post from some folks heading up Brandywine. I…
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With a heatwave settling in over Southwest BC, AJ and I decided on some higher elevation climbing to chase down some cooler temps. We skimmed through the Alpine Select and decided to give Blackcomb Buttress a try. This climb had been on my radar for some time, and it felt like a good opportunity to…
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Peggy and I were reading the Alpine Select and stumbled on the description for Cassiope and Saxifrage Peaks. The description looked great – good quality rock, ridgeline linkups, views in all directions, and sidewalks in the sky. I gave Tyler a call that evening, and early the next morning the three of us were driving…
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On a sunny day in July, Peggy and I both had the day off work, and we decided we wanted to go explore a climb that was recently put up in the Brandywine Meadows area called Bastardo. A multi-pitch bolted alpine route above a beautiful mountain valley on a sunny day seemed like a no…
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Nina and I decided to try Chewbacca’s, a 3 pitch 10b on the Gobsmacking Wall. The Squamish Select uses words like “burley” and “hard for the grade”. I typically don’t climb much harder than 10a / 10b on lead, so this felt like a good outing to push into some challenging-for-me climbing. Our plan was…
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Although the forecast was calling for 30 degree highs in Squamish, Nina and I decided to climb Born Again on the Apron. We started early so we’d mostly be in the shade, with the plan of getting off the route before the sun hit The Apron. I linked the first two pitches, and belayed Nina…
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Peggy and I went to a wedding in the Slocan Valley, and decided to take a longer loop home to visit friends in Kamloops and then head through Marble Canyon for a bit of climbing. We were on a time crunch to get back to Squamish, so we knew we didn’t have time to climb…
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