https://stevensong.com/alphabetical-list/2026-04-03T01:04:15+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/chronological-list/2026-04-03T01:01:03+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/skwellepil-peak-olive-west-and-olive-peak/2026-04-03T00:55:31+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/mount-durieu/2026-03-28T04:48:37+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/coon-peak/2026-03-26T23:41:14+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/barrier-tooth/2026-03-23T04:00:13+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/cat-mountain/2026-03-22T04:39:52+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/beehive-peak-and-peak-3302/2026-03-20T17:29:29+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/okanagan/coal-hill/2026-03-20T05:49:09+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/okanagan/paul-peak-peter-peak-and-peak-1159/2026-03-19T04:17:29+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/pinnacle-peak-az/2026-03-17T01:35:35+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/courthouse-butte-and-bell-rock/2026-03-16T05:42:46+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/cesura-peak/2026-03-16T04:14:48+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/fletcher-south/2026-03-15T03:32:39+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/courthouse-rock/2026-03-14T05:15:41+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/weavers-needle/2026-03-12T19:15:02+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/camels-head-and-the-praying-monk/2026-03-11T05:53:52+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/peak-620/2026-02-25T20:15:11+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/peak-544/2026-02-25T19:36:26+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/peak-703/2026-02-25T19:25:15+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/panorama-ridge/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p70820561.jpgP7082056One of the Consolation Lakeshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/panorama-ridge.jpgPanorama-RidgePanorama Ridge standard scramble routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/untitled_panorama1.jpgUntitled_Panorama1The true summit of Panorama Ridge is at center. Storm Mountain on left.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7082157.jpgP7082157Tower of Babelhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7082154.jpgP7082154More of the Consolation Lakehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7082149.jpgP7082149The lower Consolation Lake from ground levelhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7082145.jpgP7082145Another tourist took a photo of mehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7082140.jpgP7082140Back to Consolation Valley.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7082136.jpgP7082136Looking back up this ugly gullyhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7082128.jpgP7082128One of the Consolation Lakes seen from just below the summit2026-02-20T17:19:32+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/mount-rundle/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/p8288648.jpgP8288648Descending / scree skiing. I was nervous on this too...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/p8288646.jpgP8288646As you can see, we didn't make to the summit. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/p8288640.jpgP8288640Me https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/p8288628.jpgP8288628Dadhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/p8288621-mt.jpgP8288621---MtMount Assiniboinehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/p8288615.jpgP8288615Fairholme Range across Highway 1. Mount Peechee at centerhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/p8288609-cascade-mountain.jpgP8288609---Cascade-MountainCascade Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/p8288605-lake-minnewanka-mt.jpgP8288605---Lake-Minnewanka,-MtLake Minnewanka Area. The big mountain is Aylmerhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/p8288602.jpgP8288602The other side is a shear drop. Bow River and Highway 1, at 1600 vertical meters belowhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/p8288600-04.jpgP8288600-04Panorama view. Click to view large size.2026-02-20T17:17:03+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/ruffle-peak-and-eyeball-peak/2026-02-20T17:13:32+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/mount-russell-bc/2026-02-17T04:09:46+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/jasper/mount-henry/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_2640.jpgimg_2640We found occasional glissading. Photo by Ben Nhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_2628.jpgimg_2628Me standing on the true summit pinnacle. Photo by Ben Nhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_2621.jpgimg_2621Me on the false summit. Photo by Ben Nhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/kerr-to-henry-back-to-jasper.jpgKerr-to-Henry-back-to-JasperKerr to Henry back to Jasperhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6233191.jpgP6233191Something you don't always see in Edmonton..https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6233189.jpgP6233189Kerkeslin https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6233188.jpgP6233188Mount Tekarrahttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6233184.jpgP6233184Sunset time!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6233181.jpgP6233181Cabin Lakehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6233180.jpgP6233180The Whistlers and its reflection in Cabin Lake2026-02-14T20:46:33+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/jasper/mount-kerr-jasper/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_2565.jpgimg_2565Me kicking step up the snow slope just before the summit. Photo by Ben Nhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6233060.jpgP6233060Zooming-in towards peaks on Skylinehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6233056-58.jpgP6233056-58Looking over Muhigan Mountain towards peaks in Tonquin Valleyhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6233059.jpgP6233059Jasper directionhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6233052.jpgP6233052Me on the summit of Mount Kerrhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6233051.jpgP6233051One of my favourite shots from this summithttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6233050.jpgP6233050The fractured register. We didn't bother to sign it. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6233046.jpgP6233046This is the piece of clouds building uphttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6233043-44.jpgP6233043-44Buttress Mountain is another scramble that we'll come back forhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6233038-40.jpgP6233038-40Looking over towards Elysium Pass direction. The peak on far right is Mount McKean2026-02-14T20:46:11+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/jasper/cairngorm/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p62329561.jpgP6232956Thankfully it passed by soonhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p62329501.jpgP6232950An intense thunderstorm aroundhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p62329551.jpgP6232955But it worked... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p62329371.jpgP6232937Not the greatest route choicehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p62329361.jpgP6232936Mmm... Where were we going?!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/victoria-cross-traverse-1.jpgVictoria-Cross-Traverse-1Pyramid to Cairngorm to Kerr to Henry traverse routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6232923.jpgP6232923The low clouds and the blue skyhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6232917.jpgP6232917Mount Kerr with Kerr Lake beneath https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6232913.jpgP6232913The low clouds. You can also see Pyramid Mountain's tip left of centerhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6232911.jpgP6232911Me on the summit of Cairngorm2026-02-14T20:45:46+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/jasper/pyramid-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/victoria-cross-traverse.jpgVictoria-Cross-TraverseThe Victoria Cross Range traverse route from Pyramid Mountain to Mt. Henryhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6232791.jpgP6232791Cairngorm, our next objective. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6232780-85.jpgP6232780-85Another wide angle panorama. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6232776.jpgP6232776Mount Geikiehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6232770.jpgP6232770Me on the summithttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6232767.jpgP6232767Snaring Mountain is the highest in this areahttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6232749.jpgP6232749Mount Fitzwilliamhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6232752.jpgP6232752Unnamed peaks north of the familiar Victoria Cross Traversehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6232746.jpgP6232746The south side of Pyramid Mountain is steep!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6232745.jpgP6232745Another photo showing this interesting lighting2026-02-14T20:45:19+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/mount-rundle-main-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/rundle-true-summit.jpgRundle-true-summitMt. Rundle (true summit) scramble routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/p7206651.jpgP7206651Back to the lovely, but very busy parking lot...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/p7206650.jpgP7206650The Goat Creek Trail got washed out at placeshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/p7206648.jpgP7206648Interesting looking tree trunk tumer. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/p7206645.jpgP7206645The drainage gets bushy at places, but briefly. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/p7206641.jpgP7206641Almost back into the trees now. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/p7206636.jpgP7206636Looking back... Looks quite climby.. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/p7206631.jpgP7206631And, there're still many, many rock bands like this to block our way out. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/p7206625.jpgP7206625Mike finishing off the first crux. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/p7206623.jpgP7206623Looking down from above this section. No mistake allowed here. 2026-02-14T20:44:00+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/jumbo-mountain-wa/2026-02-13T20:04:17+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/the-table/2026-02-09T07:35:40+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/chronological-list/2024-archive/2026-02-07T20:12:07+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/mount-thirsk/2026-01-27T06:17:22+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/crabbe-mountain-and-darkside-peak/2026-01-24T02:11:41+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/niche-peak/2026-01-04T21:40:31+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/bandera-mountain/2025-12-31T00:52:18+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/deming-tower-hill/2025-12-29T22:50:31+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/reginald-hill/2025-12-27T18:36:52+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/bruce-peak-mount-tuam-and-hope-hill/2025-12-23T23:16:25+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/baynes-peak-mount-maxwell/2025-11-25T22:54:14+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/mount-erskine/2025-11-22T00:34:49+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/mount-belcher/2025-11-19T08:28:41+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/otuskwan-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/otuskwan-peak2.jpgOtuskwan-PeakOtuskwan Peak scramble routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa266949.jpgPA266949Evening colours from trail-head.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa266947.jpgPA266947A chemical plant near the trail-headhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa266944.jpgPA266944This is the typical view from this road/trailhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa266945.jpgPA266945Sheep Creekhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa266940.jpgPA266940Sheep Creekhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa266942.jpgPA266942Even on the trail/road, we had to cross creek due to washoutshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa266939.jpgPA266939Interesting creek crossings. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa266937.jpgPA266937Down to the creek. Note the canyon featurehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa266936.jpgPA266936One of the few scrambling steps2025-11-08T07:37:21+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/wapiti-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/wapiti3.jpgWapitiWapiti Mountain scramble routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa136650.jpgPA136650The long hike back. Wapiti Mountain in the background obscured in clouds.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa136638-40.jpgPA136638-40Grassland everywhere. I guess that's why horses like here.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa126625-29.jpgPA126625-29Rick said you need to wait 'till mid winter to cross Red Deer River, but it looks very fordable to me in October.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa126618.jpgPA126618Hiking back, with Warden Rock in the backgroundhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa126617.jpgPA126617A closer look at Warden Rockhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa126607.jpgPA126607A lonely treehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa126605.jpgPA126605We crossed this big drainage. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa126604.jpgPA126604Back to Tomahawk Pass Trailhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa126597.jpgPA126597In the distance is Gable Mountain across Red Deer River2025-11-08T07:36:25+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/bigfoot-hill/2025-11-07T06:41:43+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/hynes-peak/2025-11-02T21:01:00+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/austria/dobratsch/2025-10-25T19:16:17+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/austria/polinik/2025-10-25T04:43:45+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/austria/hochobir/2025-10-23T23:26:49+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/italy/cima-dodici/2025-10-21T22:15:56+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/austria/ellmauer-halt/2025-10-21T06:14:37+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/jasper/the-whistlers/2025-10-17T03:48:42+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/austria/birnhorn/2025-10-14T22:17:26+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/mount-astley/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120111_191754.jpg20120111_191754The tourist's view of Lake Minnewankahttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120111_182712.jpg20120111_182712Back through the deep and narrow canyonhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120111_182207.jpg20120111_182207Eric and the typical boulder hopping https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120111_181910.jpg20120111_181910Descending the lower drainagehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120111_173114.jpg20120111_173114Filling our water bottles at the fork. It's a hot afternoon...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120111_172032.jpg20120111_172032The upper drainagehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120111_170604.jpg20120111_170604Vern descending the upper drainage https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120111_155956.jpg20120111_155956Looking back at the Class 3 scramble break I usedhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120111_154227.jpg20120111_154227Gorgeous view towards Girouard and Inglismaldiehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120111_154224.jpg20120111_154224This is the 3rd peak of Astley area... It looks also interesting2025-10-09T22:00:01+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/kaisoots-mountain-bald-mountain/2025-10-09T01:50:49+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/crater-mountain-wa/2025-10-08T21:23:58+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/crater-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/img_0834.jpgIMG_0834It's Taco time! https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/img_0830.jpgIMG_0830One last picture of this boring road https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/img_0827.jpgIMG_0827The snow's almost gone. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/img_0826.jpgIMG_0826These columns are cool though. I think it's just part of Crater Mtn. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/img_0823.jpgIMG_0823Road plod, plod, and plod... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/img_0822.jpgIMG_0822Going down now. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/22496153_10155056432871461_6949807130766246543_o.jpg22496153_10155056432871461_6949807130766246543_oScrambling up a subsidiary summit. Photo by Alexhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/img_0816.jpgIMG_0816Heading back to camp. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/img_0809.jpgIMG_0809The true summit from the eastern outlier https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/img_0803.jpgIMG_0803This is southern view into Washington state 2025-10-04T17:49:24+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/austria/gaisberg/2025-10-02T21:40:00+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/austria/rossbrand/2025-10-02T19:01:52+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/austria/hochtor/2025-10-02T18:47:57+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/austria/grosser-priel/2025-10-01T22:03:19+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/corteo-peak/2025-10-01T19:11:45+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/crooked-bum/2025-10-01T18:44:30+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/austria/grimming/2025-09-27T04:57:59+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/saxifrage-peak-and-cassiope-peak/2025-09-26T23:34:22+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/austria/hochkonig/2025-09-26T19:18:42+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/the-pleiades-peaks-1-2-3-4/2025-09-23T18:23:14+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/italy/antelao/2025-09-22T04:39:03+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/italy/col-nudo/2025-09-18T05:26:43+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/italy/pizzo-di-coca/2025-09-17T06:49:45+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/van-zandt-dike/2025-09-17T00:39:26+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/italy/monte-di-tremezzo-and-monte-galbiga/2025-09-16T05:41:19+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/italy/grigna-settentrionale/2025-09-15T21:47:15+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/liechtenstein/grauspitz/2025-09-13T06:07:47+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/liechtenstein/2025-09-12T23:29:55+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/big-gee/2025-09-12T05:24:14+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/switzerland/santis/2025-09-11T02:20:28+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/recondite-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/recondite-climb.jpgRecondite-climbRecondite Peak climbing routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/recondite-approach.jpgRecondite-approachThe approach to Recondite Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/recondite.jpgReconditeRecondite Peak approach and ascent route via Dolomite Pass, Isabella Lake and SW Ridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/recondite-peak.jpgRecondite-PeakRecondite Peak approach and ascent routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8180966.jpgP8180966Crossing an interesting mud creek. Dolomite Peak behind.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8180960.jpgP8180960Doing this was pretty tiring at the tailing end of the triphttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8180951.jpgP8180951Even more familiar views started to show up. Don't need to introduce this peak I guess..https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8180949.jpgP8180949Anyone hasn't done Cirque yet?https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8180945-48.jpgP8180945-48Panorama from the ridge crest just below Cirque Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8180942.jpgP8180942Back to the familiar country now. This is Helen Lake2025-09-10T21:43:10+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/david-thompson/mount-cline/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cline1.jpgClineMt. Cline ascent route via SW Ridge. Alpine II, 5.4https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8018582.jpgP8018582Back to parking lot. Done!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8018581.jpgP8018581Burnt foresthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8018580.jpgP8018580Flowershttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8018579.jpgP8018579Back to creek-bed. Typical, typical.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8018578.jpgP8018578Looking back up this gully that we missed on the way inhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8018577.jpgP8018577Liam taking a short breakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8018576.jpgP8018576Ready to descend the gully/slope, looking backhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8018575.jpgP8018575Traversing the big talus slopehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8018574.jpgP8018574Another photo looking back2025-09-10T21:29:44+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/switzerland/monte-san-salvatore/2025-09-10T18:15:32+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/switzerland/monte-tamaro/2025-09-10T17:38:23+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/italy/monte-torrezzo/2025-09-09T18:52:49+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/italy/il-mottarone/2025-09-09T17:47:20+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/tsar-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5108.jpgIMG_5108The pick-up day was miserable to say the least... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5101.jpgIMG_5101The last sunset of this trip. Note the clouds rolling in already... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5061.jpgIMG_5061The lake at the headwaters of Kinbasket Riverhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5097.jpgIMG_5097After dinner I went out again for shooting sunset. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5091.jpgIMG_5091The lake https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5087.jpgIMG_5087I went around to explore that lake againhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5083.jpgIMG_5083Almost back to our basecamp now. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5075.jpgIMG_5075Lovely... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5071.jpgIMG_5071Years ago the ACC used this site as basecamp. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_4973.jpgIMG_4973There might be a way down this direction into the valley but I cannot tell2025-09-09T16:52:02+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/italy/ortles-ortler/2025-09-09T16:37:52+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/italy/monte-amaro/2025-09-08T20:02:37+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/liberty-mountain/2025-09-08T04:33:48+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/italy/corno-grande/2025-09-07T18:47:40+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/italy/cima-valdritta/2025-09-05T15:42:20+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/mount-goodsir-south-tower/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5733.jpgIMG_5733Back to civilization. Goodsirs are down... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5732.jpgIMG_5732There were at least 100 dead falls and maybe more... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5728.jpgIMG_5728This stretch still sucks, big time... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5723.jpgIMG_5723Back onto Ice River trail... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5722.jpgIMG_5722This is one of the several channels we had to crosshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5717.jpgIMG_5717Back into the marsh now... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5708.jpgIMG_5708Believe it or not we were on that climber's trail... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5707.jpgIMG_5707Picking up the raspberries is the highlight of this trip... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5702.jpgIMG_5702Heading down the north fork of Zinc Creekhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5700.jpgIMG_5700This approach is not very pleasant... 2025-09-05T14:22:23+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/mount-goodsir-north-tower/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5398.jpgIMG_5398Traversing steep snow to gain the small glacier below North/Center colhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5394.jpgIMG_5394Lower down we used this moat to bypass that ice patchhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5388.jpgIMG_5388Finished the bowling alley descent. Looking back... Never again... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5385.jpgIMG_5385As you can see a thick layer of smoke rolled in. No more viewhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/39390253_10155571982871643_4455025329664163840_o.jpg39390253_10155571982871643_4455025329664163840_oMe rappelling in the bowling alley. Photo by Michel B.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5383.jpgIMG_5383Second rappel in the bowling alley. This one is very dangerous https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5379.jpgIMG_5379First rappel in the bowling alleyhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5378.jpgIMG_5378Down-frontpointing into dirt into the bowling alleyhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5377.jpgIMG_5377Another photo of the rappelhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/img_5373.jpgIMG_5373Rappelling off the crux pitch2025-09-05T14:22:06+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/mount-king-george/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/king-george-princess-mary.jpgKing-George-Princess-MaryAscent routes for Mt. King George and Mt. Princess Maryhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/img_4125.jpgimg_4125Me ascending the glacier. Photo by Benhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/img_4259.jpgimg_4259Descending from the summit. Photo by Benhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/img_3996.jpgimg_3996Me au-chevalling across the log. Photo by Benhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/king-george1.jpgKing-GeorgeAscent route for King George, Princess Mary and Prince Georgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140809_115027.jpg20140809_115027Eric descending the loooong scree slope. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140809_113147.jpg20140809_113147Vern and Ben on the ledgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140809_113145.jpg20140809_113145Traversing back across the ledge systemhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140809_110259.jpg20140809_110259You certainly can't afford a slip on this steep glacier... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1502856_10152625875964586_7058349646823092319_o.jpg1502856_10152625875964586_7058349646823092319_oThis photo shows me, Ben and Eric on the slope. 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making turns. Photo by Alexhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20120808_160432.jpg20120808_160432That bushy logging road sectionhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20120808_155024.jpg20120808_155024Cerise Creekhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20120808_155021.jpg20120808_155021The ski out along Cerise Creekhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20120808_150301.jpg20120808_150301Joffre Peak. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20120808_150255.jpg20120808_150255Done the glacier, looking back. Matier (L) and Joffre (R)https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20120808_144147.jpg20120808_144147Looking over the E. Ridge of Matierhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20120808_144142.jpg20120808_144142Skiing down Anniversary Glacierhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20120808_142324.jpg20120808_142324One last look at Joffre Peak (and its Aussie Couloir)https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20120808_141057.jpg20120808_141057Alex down-climbing the face2025-04-08T06:42:12+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/mount-matier-with-xinran/2025-04-08T06:35:38+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/okanagan/battle-bluff/2025-04-01T22:04:52+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/spirit-caves-peak/2025-03-22T04:26:29+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/monastic-peak/2025-03-04T01:38:23+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sunshine-coast/mount-steele/2025-03-03T17:47:52+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/okanagan/mount-hamilton/2025-02-26T07:26:12+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/kilby-hill/2025-02-19T20:10:08+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/north-shore-mountains/forks-peak-and-goat-ridge-peak/2025-02-16T06:36:14+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/north-shore-mountains/beauty-peak-west-crown/2025-02-16T00:19:13+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/lennox-mountain/2025-02-11T00:04:55+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/big-four-mountain/2025-02-01T23:45:30+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sunshine-coast/mount-freda/2025-02-01T03:48:18+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sunshine-coast/valentine-hill/2025-01-31T18:50:32+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sunshine-coast/tin-hat-mountain/2025-01-31T06:42:55+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/lane-peak-via-ne-face/2025-01-30T23:59:29+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-central-coast/mount-van-der-est/2025-01-21T08:16:41+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-central-coast/2025-01-20T20:05:23+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/johnson-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200209_img_5391.jpg20200209_IMG_5391Descending the ridge with Silvertip Mtn. looming in fronthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200209_img_5370.jpg20200209_IMG_5370My summit selfie on Johnson Peak, with Mt. 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Time to scree ski! Photo by Ben Nhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_4987.jpgimg_4987Another photo showing me down climbing the crux. Photo by Ben Nhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_4986.jpgimg_4986Same, me down-climbing the crux. Photo by Ben Nhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_4978.jpgimg_4978Me down-climbing our crux pitch. Photo by Ben Nhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8241184.jpgP8241184Glow over Mount Yamuskahttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8241182.jpgP8241182I stopped on highway 1 for photos. Unique view when storm and sunset come togetherhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8241167-71.jpgP8241167-71Panorama of Spray Lake from its northern endhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8241161.jpgP8241161Zooming-in towards Mount Lougheedhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8241154-59.jpgP8241154-59At least the view of Spray Lakes was good from this 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of the many sub-peaks of Mt. Feehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121113_153339.jpg20121113_153339One of the 50 snowmobiles... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/12967363_10153696153231461_2309561602205597839_o.jpg12967363_10153696153231461_2309561602205597839_oMe skiing down https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121113_151721.jpg20121113_151721One last look at our objectivehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121113_150346.jpg20121113_150346Done! https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121113_143059.jpg20121113_143059The lower face was nice and easy.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121113_143051.jpg20121113_143051Down through the rock stephttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121113_142333.jpg20121113_142333A few mixed moves required for the rock stephttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121113_141952.jpg20121113_141952Looking across the face shows clearly the slope angle. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121113_141947.jpg20121113_141947Now, into the channel above the rock crux step2024-05-10T21:15:36+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/okanagan/batchelor-hill/2024-05-07T06:12:15+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/okanagan/mount-harper/2024-05-06T19:29:05+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/okanagan/mount-tod/2024-05-06T18:16:36+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/sloquet-peak/2024-05-04T19:54:07+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/okanagan/mount-law/2024-05-01T06:20:39+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/okanagan/giants-head/2024-05-01T01:58:54+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/okanagan/mount-conkle/2024-04-30T22:37:13+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/okanagan/mount-munson/2024-04-30T17:55:50+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/okanagan/peak-1392-cringe-peak/2024-04-30T17:21:44+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/okanagan/mount-parker-penticton/2024-04-30T16:21:45+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/mount-parker/2024-04-30T16:19:36+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/north-shore-mountains/hixon-peak/2024-04-24T06:48:00+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/lesser-wedge-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/img_2279-2.jpgimg_2279-2https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/img_2279-1.jpgimg_2279-12024-04-20T06:38:19+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/wedge-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/wedge-and-parkhurst.jpgWedge-and-ParkhurstWedge Mountain (NE Arete) and Parkhurst Mtn. on snowshoes. GPX DLhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20120928_201518.jpg20120928_201518Into the woods following the trackshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20120928_194120.jpg20120928_194120Just about to drop down the headwall below the hut/lakehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20120928_193539.jpg20120928_193539A closer look at Wedge and Parkhurst - two peaks that I ascended on this dayhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20120928_193533.jpg20120928_193533From near the hut, looking backhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20120928_192654.jpg20120928_192654Onto Wedgemount Lake now. The N. Face of Rethel Mountain is that wallhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20120928_191239.jpg20120928_191239The toe of Wedgemount Glacierhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20120928_190824.jpg20120928_190824Checking out a huge ice cavehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20120928_190433.jpg20120928_190433Almost done the glacierhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20120928_190100.jpg20120928_190100Looking back at my tracks down the Wedgemount Glacier2024-04-20T02:26:36+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/tolkien-peak/2024-04-16T05:49:55+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/mount-john-decker/2024-04-15T19:07:15+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/in-shuck-ch-mountain-gunsight-peak/2024-04-08T19:13:05+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/cuba/la-mensura/2024-04-03T20:32:20+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/cuba/gran-piedra/2024-04-03T19:50:23+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/cuba/pico-turquino/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/turquino.jpgturquino2024-04-03T18:12:42+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/cuba/2024-04-02T21:19:11+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/jamaica/blue-mountain-peak/2024-03-29T22:11:35+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/jamaica/2024-03-29T03:17:01+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/dominican-republic/pico-duarte-and-loma-la-pelona/2024-03-27T09:04:32+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/dominican-republic/2024-03-25T22:29:16+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/guatemala/volcan-acatenango/2024-03-22T02:49:49+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/guatemala/volcan-de-agua/2024-03-20T20:17:02+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/guatemala/volcan-san-pedro-guatemala/2024-03-20T01:20:26+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/guatemala/volcan-atitlan/2024-03-18T22:43:30+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/guatemala/volcan-zunil/2024-03-18T00:02:57+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/guatemala/almolonga-cerro-candelaria/2024-03-17T02:02:52+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/guatemala/volcan-santa-maria/2024-03-17T01:10:23+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/guatemala/volcan-tajumulco/2024-03-16T03:31:04+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/guatemala/volcan-tacana/2024-03-15T20:51:13+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/guatemala/cerro-de-los-cuervos-and-la-torre/2024-03-14T02:42:16+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/guatemala/montanas-pena-blanca/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/img_6702.jpgimg_67022024-03-13T13:03:28+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/guatemala/2024-03-13T02:36:17+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/rodger-hill-and-sugarloaf-fidalgo-island/2024-03-11T00:27:00+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/lookout-peak-east-harrison/2024-03-04T20:16:37+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/mount-high-g-and-ginnett-hill/2024-03-01T20:17:34+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/chehalis-peak/2024-02-28T19:06:25+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/north-shore-mountains/mount-bishop/2024-02-26T05:06:29+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/david-thompson/tuff-puff/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/tuff-puff2.jpgTuff-PuffTuff Puff standard hiking route2024-02-22T19:52:46+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/cariboo-mountains/mount-milton/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/milton.jpgMiltonMt. Milton ascent route via Allan Creek snowmobile road2024-02-22T19:52:05+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/purcell-mountains/wiseman-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140124_130407.jpg20140124_130407This is the Roger's Pass classic - Mt. Sir Donaldhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140124_1304011.jpg20140124_130401Mt. Dawson massive is the 2nd highest peak in the Selkirks. Deville Neve on lefthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140124_1303351.jpg20140124_130335Peaks in the Lake Louise/O'Hara Grouphttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140124_130318.jpg20140124_130318Giants on Freshfield Icefields - Mt. Dent on the far left and Mt. Freshfield at centerhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140124_1303121.jpg20140124_130312The massive Mt. Mummeryhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140124_1303081.jpg20140124_130308Mt. Laussedat looks quite different from this side than the typical view from Yohohttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140124_1302591.jpg20140124_130259The big pyramid-shaped peak poking behind is Mt. Forbeshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140124_1302431.jpg20140124_130243From L to R along the skyline - Mt. Spring-Rice, Fresnoy Mountain and Mt. Alexandrahttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140124_1302401.jpg20140124_130240The remote giants up the Bush Road - Mt. Bryce (L) and Cockscomb Mountain (R)https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/20140124_1302371.jpg20140124_130237That might peak is Mt. Columbia2024-02-22T19:50:54+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/spoon-needle/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/spoon-needle3.jpgSpoon-NeedleSpoon Needle ski ascent route from Fortress ski area2024-02-22T19:49:31+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/ghita-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ghita-mountain1.jpgGhita-MountainGhita Mountain winter ascent route2024-02-22T19:46:45+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/powderface-ridge/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/powderface.jpgPowderfacePowderface Ridge winter ascent route2024-02-22T19:45:48+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/the-north/moberly-lookout/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/moberly-lookout1.jpgMoberly-LookoutMoberly Lookout hiking route2024-02-22T19:42:04+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/jasper/the-palisade/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/the-palisade1.jpgThe-PalisadeThe Palisade via Pyramid Fire Road2024-02-22T19:41:18+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/the-north/grande-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/grande-mountain1.jpgGrande-MountainGrande Mountain hiking/snowshoeing ascent route2024-02-22T19:40:35+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/south-rockies/prairie-bluff/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/prairie-bluff1.jpgPrairie-BluffPrairie Bluff hiking route2024-02-22T19:39:25+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/little-temple/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/little-temple1.jpgLittle-TempleLittle Temple ski ascent route2024-02-22T19:38:32+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/trapper-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/trapper2.jpgTrapperTrapper Peak ski ascent route2024-02-22T19:37:08+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/raspberry-ridge/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/raspberry-ridge1.jpgRaspberry-RidgeRaspberry Ridge hiking route2024-02-22T19:17:12+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/missinglink-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/missinglink-mountain1.jpgMissinglink-MountainMissinglink Mountain hiking route2024-02-22T19:16:37+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/the-north/mount-stearn/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/stearn1.jpgStearnMt. Stearn hiking/snowshoeing ascent route2024-02-22T19:15:52+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/david-thompson/mount-ernest-ross/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ernest-ross1.jpgErnest-RossMt. Ernest Ross scramble route2024-02-22T19:14:44+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/selkirk-mountains/grizzly-mountain/2024-02-22T19:14:00+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/selkirk-mountains/ursus-minor-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ursus-minor-and-grizzly2.jpgUrsus-Minor-and-GrizzlyUrsus Minor Mountain and Grizzly Mountain ascent route2024-02-22T19:13:54+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/sunwapta-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/sunwapta1.jpgSunwaptaSunwapta Peak standard scramble route2024-02-22T19:13:15+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/mount-joffre/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/joffre-and-marlborough1.jpgJoffre-and-MarlboroughApproach and ascent route for Mt. Joffre and Mt. Marlborough2024-02-22T19:12:35+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/mount-marlborough/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/joffre-and-marlborough-1.jpgJoffre-and-Marlborough-1Ascent route for Mt. Joffre and Mt. Marlborough2024-02-22T19:12:28+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/selkirk-mountains/rogers-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rogers1.jpgRogersMt. Rogers ascent route2024-02-22T19:11:41+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/mount-ishbel/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ishbel1.jpgIshbelMt. Ishbel standard scramble route2024-02-22T19:10:49+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/mount-victoria-north-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/north-victoria1.jpgNorth-VictoriaNorth Victoria ascent route via Victoria Glacier2024-02-22T19:10:08+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/mount-lefroy/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/lefroy1.jpgLefroyAscent route for Mt. Lefroy via West Face2024-02-22T19:09:35+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/goat-mountain-traverse/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/goat-traverse1.jpgGoat-TraverseGoat Mountain Traverse route2024-02-22T19:08:52+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/grizzly-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/grizzly-peak1.jpgGrizzly-PeakGrizzly Peak standard scramble route2024-02-22T19:07:30+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/jasper/roche-de-smet/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/roche-de-smet1.jpgRoche-De-SmetRoche De Smet scramble route2024-02-22T19:06:02+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/selkirk-mountains/mount-sir-donald/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140801_1139481.jpg20140801_113948Splillimacheen River Valleyhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140801_113909.jpg20140801_113909Looking over the NE Face of Mt. Bonny towards more peaks in the Selkirkshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140801_1138461.jpg20140801_113846Peaks on the Freshfield Icefield dominate the skyline. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140801_1138391.jpg20140801_113839From Lyells to Forbes on the horizon - giants in the central Rockieshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140801_1145541.jpg20140801_114554That big mountain sticking out is the iconic Howser Towers in the Bugaboos! https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140801_0630261.jpg20140801_063026Mt. Jupitor massif - Leda, Pollux and Custer Peaks from L to Rhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140801_063020.jpg20140801_063020And, glow on the NE Face of Mt. Bonny. Mt. Swanzy is the bump on its left shoulder. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140801_0630121.jpg20140801_063012Alpenglow on the peaks north of Highway 1 - Cheops Mountain, etc. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140801_0630081.jpg20140801_063008Alpenglow on Eagle Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/sir-donald1.jpgSir-DonaldMt. Sir Donald ascent route via NW Ridge2024-02-22T19:04:53+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/mist-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/mist.jpgMistMist Mountain via the hiker's route2024-02-22T19:04:01+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/mount-prince-george/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/prince-george.jpgPrince-GeorgeAscent route of Mt. Prince George2024-02-22T19:02:29+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/south-rockies/mount-fisher/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/mount-fisher1.jpgMount-FisherMt. Fisher scramble route2024-02-22T19:01:10+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/mount-mckirdy/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/mckirdy1.jpgMcKirdyMt. McKirdy scramble route 2024-02-22T18:59:48+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/mount-french/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/french-and-jellicoe2.jpgFrench-and-JellicoeMt. French and Mt. Jellicoe scramble route2024-02-22T18:59:07+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/mount-jellicoe/2024-02-22T18:59:01+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/mount-harrison/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/harrison-and-folk1.jpgHarrison-and-FolkScramble routes for Mt. Harrison (SW Face) and Mt. Folk2024-02-22T18:58:16+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/mount-folk/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/folk.jpgFolkMt. Folk scramble route2024-02-22T18:58:10+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/smith-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/smith-peak1.jpgSmith-PeakSmith Peak scramble route2024-02-22T18:57:35+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/mount-alexandra/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/alexandra1.jpgAlexandraMt. Alexandra approach and ascent route via South Rice Brook highline traverse2024-02-22T18:55:06+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/mount-girouard/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/girouard1.jpgGirouardMt. Girouard scramble route2024-02-22T18:54:21+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/david-thompson/whitegoat-peaks-ii/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/whitegoat-ii1.jpgWhitegoat-IIWhitegoat Peaks II ascent route2024-02-22T18:53:14+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/flat-ridge/2024-02-22T18:52:26+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/marble-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/marble-and-flat1.jpgMarble-and-FlatMarble Mountain and Flat Ridge scramble route2024-02-22T18:52:18+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/jasper/sirdar-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/sirdar1.jpgSirdarSirdar Mountain scramble route2024-02-22T18:51:28+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/evangeline-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/evangeline-and-rum-ridge1.jpgEvangeline-and-Rum-RidgeEvangeline Peak to Rum Ridge Peak scramble route2026-02-14T23:31:00+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/rum-ridge-peak/2024-02-22T18:50:42+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/monashee-mountains/stargazer-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/stargazer1.jpgStargazerStargazer Peak ascent route from Clemina Creek2024-02-22T18:49:55+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/selkirk-mountains/keystone-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/keystone1.jpgKeystoneKeystone Peak hiking route2024-02-22T18:49:08+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/gr882573-sunshine-landing/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/gr8825731.jpgGR882573GR882573 ski ascent route2024-02-22T18:48:27+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/maze-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/maze1.jpgMazeMaze Peak standard scramble route2024-02-22T18:47:28+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/kent-ridge-north-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/kent-ridge-north1.jpgKent-Ridge-NorthKent Ridge North snowshoe ascent route2024-02-22T18:46:26+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/wendell-mountain-east-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/east-wendell1.jpgEast-WendellEast Wendell standard scramble route2024-02-22T18:45:44+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/mount-turner/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/turner1.jpgTurnerMt. Turner scramble route2024-02-22T18:44:58+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/phantom-crag/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/phantom-crag1.jpgPhantom-CragPhantom Crag ascent route2024-02-22T18:43:34+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/boom-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/boom1.jpgBoomBoom Mountain ski/snowshoe ascent routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150131_170742.jpg20150131_170742A view of Mt. Whymper from valley floor. Looks like I'll have to bag it soon...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150131_165539.jpg20150131_165539Lower down skiing improvedhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150131_165248.jpg20150131_165248Looking back at our objectivehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150131_162839.jpg20150131_162839Sun setting behind Mt. Whymperhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150131_162829.jpg20150131_162829More debris. With crampons I just walked down on top of them.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150131_162826.jpg20150131_162826Oh the debris... This reminded me Mt. Wilson!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150131_161400.jpg20150131_161400Ben skiing into the gullyhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150131_161047.jpg20150131_161047Here's our gully!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150131_161044.jpg20150131_161044Into the gully. I'd soon switch to crampons2024-02-22T18:42:40+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/mount-dyson/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150208_153958.jpg20150208_153958Another view of Sheep Riverhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150208_153948.jpg20150208_153948Crossing back Sheep Riverhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150208_153300.jpg20150208_153300Going back home..https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150208_152941.jpg20150208_152941Hiking back across the fence gatehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150208_142255.jpg20150208_142255A view from the descenthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150208_125745.jpg20150208_125745Mt. Burnshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150208_125729.jpg20150208_125729A zoomed-in view of Gibraltar Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150208_125832.jpg20150208_125832Junction Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150208_125802.jpg20150208_125802Mt. Rose and Threepoint Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150208_125753.jpg20150208_125753Bluerock Mountain2024-02-22T18:41:56+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/jasper/miette-pass-peaks/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/miette-pass-peaks1.jpgMiette-Pass-PeaksMiette Pass Peaks ski ascent routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150217_175137.jpg20150217_175137The final train track crossing. Glad we didn't have to wait for half an hour like on Elysium Mountain trip... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150217_174459.jpg20150217_174459Can't believe this is in February in BC....https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150217_173031.jpg20150217_173031We had to carry our skis/snowshoes for the last 2 km or so. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/img_4270.jpgimg_4270Me on the lookout. Photo by Benhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150217_161913.jpg20150217_161913Descending the Yellowhead Mountain trail. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150217_124350.jpg20150217_124350A frozen lake on the traversehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150217_123926.jpg20150217_123926Some tricky and tight spots for skiinghttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150217_122149-1.jpg20150217_122149-1Mt. Morenhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150217_122133-1.jpg20150217_122133-1Mt. Bridgeland2024-02-22T18:41:18+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/peyto-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/baker-and-peyto-1.jpgBaker-and-Peyto-1Ski ascent route for Mt. Baker and Peyto Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/peyto-055.jpgpeyto-055Me descending with the summit nipple behind. Photo by Vernhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150222_183910.jpg20150222_183910Peyto Peak looks very impressive from this angle!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150222_183905.jpg20150222_183905Looking back from the flatshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150222_183900.jpg20150222_183900Down to the flatshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150222_175140.jpg20150222_175140Skis strapped on our packs, descending the morainehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150222_171105.jpg20150222_171105Looking back towards the Peyto Glacierhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150222_171057.jpg20150222_171057Slogging back up the morainehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150222_163514.jpg20150222_163514One last view of Mt. Bakerhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150222_163507.jpg20150222_163507Looking back at our objective2024-02-22T18:39:56+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/mount-baker/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/baker-and-peyto1.jpgBaker-and-PeytoSki ascent route for Mt. Baker and Peyto Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150221_190349.jpg20150221_190349The last bit of sunlight on Mt. Thompsonhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150221_190345.jpg20150221_190345Glow on Observation Peak across Mistaya Valleyhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150221_190341.jpg20150221_190341Evening glow on Caldron Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150221_190335.jpg20150221_190335Peyto Peak is the hardest summit on the Wapta - our objective for the next dayhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150221_183424.jpg20150221_183424Mt. Habel - apparently one can ascend it from this side too.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150221_183409.jpg20150221_183409Crowfoot Mountain another easy peak on the edge of Waptahttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150221_183407.jpg20150221_183407Mt. Olive and St. Nicolas Peak - the icons of Waptahttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150221_183359.jpg20150221_183359Even Mt. Willingdon was trying to show up!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/20150221_183352.jpg20150221_183352Mt. Outram and Mt. Erasmus almost free of clouds!2024-02-22T18:39:47+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/selkirk-mountains/lookout-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150228_111423.jpg20150228_111423Almost on the glacier now. Looking back at Vern slogging up.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150228_132429.jpg20150228_132429Leaving the summit behind. Time to go bag Youngs Peak..https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150228_131747.jpg20150228_131747Me on the summit of Lookout Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150228_131141.jpg20150228_131141Ben and Vern on the summit. Mt. Rogers behindhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150228_131118.jpg20150228_131118Many peaks in the Selkirks are visible including Fang Rock grouphttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150228_131841.jpg20150228_131841Mt. Bonney rises behind The Domehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150228_131838.jpg20150228_131838Mt. Jupitor - apparently it's a 4th class traversehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150228_131835.jpg20150228_131835Looking over Asulkan Pass towards distant giants like Mt. McBeanhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150228_131827.jpg20150228_131827The unofficially named "Neve Station" looks like a decent ski objectivehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150228_131547.jpg20150228_131547Mt. Sir Donald2024-02-22T18:39:00+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/selkirk-mountains/youngs-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/youngs-traverse1.jpgYoungs-TraverseYoungs Peak Traverse routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150228_170605.jpg20150228_170605Through the "Mouse Trap" now. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150228_165216.jpg20150228_165216Down the "tree triangle", ready for the "mouse trap"https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/10991133_10153133267244586_4693884521282631543_n.jpg10991133_10153133267244586_4693884521282631543_nMe survival skiing the heavily tracked and icy gullies. Photo by Vernhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_5512.jpgimg_5512Vern skiing down. Photo by Benhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150228_162357-1.jpg20150228_162357-1A panorama of Asulkan Hut and the area. Click to view large size.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150228_162341.jpg20150228_162341Gorgeous terrain. Here's where the best skiing we could find. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150228_162254.jpg20150228_162254Looking back at Youngs Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150228_162246.jpg20150228_162246Asulkan Hut isn't as big as I expecthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150228_160032.jpg20150228_160032Asulkan Valley2024-02-22T18:38:21+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/cathedral-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/cathedral1.jpgCathedralCathedral Mountain ascent routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150304_160845.jpg20150304_160845Back to the final slog along the Lake O'Hara roadhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150304_160429.jpg20150304_160429Cataract Brookhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150304_160307.jpg20150304_160307Down to the Cataract Brook now, looking towards North Victoriahttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150304_154126.jpg20150304_154126Now came the bad part. Tight and steep bushwhacking...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150304_153729.jpg20150304_153729Nice and sunny!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150304_153458.jpg20150304_153458Easily plunging down the "good snow"https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150304_152357.jpg20150304_152357Almost back to the treelinehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150304_151406.jpg20150304_151406Looking down the south couloir routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150304_150920.jpg20150304_150920Gorgeous afternoon. Looking towards Victoria and Huber2024-02-22T18:37:11+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/haddo-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/haddo.jpgHaddoAscent route for Aberdeen and Haddo via S. Face/S. Slopeshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150308_192455.jpg20150308_192455Almost dusk now. We still had a long way back home.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150308_190827.jpg20150308_190827These trees are not the greatest place to ski...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150308_185456.jpg20150308_185456Vern skiing down the terrain traphttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150308_184040.jpg20150308_184040Pinnacle Mountain and Eiffel Peak start to look big againhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150308_184035.jpg20150308_184035Looking back towards the mid and upper mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_58621.jpgIMG_5862Onto the wind-blown broad ridge, but more post-holing followinghttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150308_1803371.jpg20150308_180337Down-climbing another stephttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150308_1733281.jpg20150308_173328Descending the thin and steep ledgeshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150308_1728571.jpg20150308_172857Down the dicey traverse2024-02-22T18:35:48+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/mount-aberdeen/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/aberdeen-and-haddo1.jpgAberdeen-and-HaddoAscent route for Mt. Aberdeen and Haddo via S. Face/S. Ridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_5711.jpgIMG_5711Vern and I tackling the last bit of challenge - a narrow and loose snow aretehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_5700.jpgIMG_5700Me and Vern ascending the snow aretehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_5699.jpgIMG_5699Me and Vern traversing another sun-baked slope. Photo by Benhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_5684.jpgIMG_5684Upon inspection we had to traverse towards left. Photo by Benhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_5667.jpgIMG_5667Vern ascending a steep step. Photo by Benhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/aberdeen-038.jpgaberdeen-038Me down-climbing snow. Photo by Vernhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150308_160525.jpg20150308_160525Ben and Vern front-pointing down the snow arete. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/10956273_10153154882589586_2258396491626336563_n.jpg10956273_10153154882589586_2258396491626336563_nMe down-climbing. Photo by Vernhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150308_155758.jpg20150308_155758Careful foot placements are essential. It's a fun down-climb though despite how it looks from here2024-02-22T18:35:37+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/eagle-mountain-yahatinda/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/eagle1.jpgEagleEagle Mountain scramble routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150328_194453.jpg20150328_194453Camping was fun. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150328_185550.jpg20150328_185550One last look at our objectivehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150328_185219.jpg20150328_185219Crossing Eagle Creekhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150328_184827.jpg20150328_184827Looking back. What a pleasant afternoon hike. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150328_184825.jpg20150328_184825Looking towards Maze Peak. Weather had already cleared uphttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150328_184822.jpg20150328_184822Down to the ATV Road nowhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150328_174209.jpg20150328_174209Another picture of Maze Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150328_174207.jpg20150328_174207Looking back from the 1st false summithttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150328_172412.jpg20150328_172412Vern climbing up the crux2024-02-22T18:34:39+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/warden-rock/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/warden-rock1.jpgWarden-RockWarden Rock scramble routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150329_151902.jpg20150329_151902Weather was moving in once we got back to the trail-head. Well timed! https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150329_141551.jpg20150329_141551Vern and Ben hiking back along the roadhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150329_141530.jpg20150329_141530Oh the final slog along that road. Very boring and tedious...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150329_140406.jpg20150329_140406Vern fording the riverhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150329_135537.jpg20150329_135537Back to Red Deer Riverhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150329_135112.jpg20150329_135112The broad peak ahead is locally known as Well Site Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150329_135102.jpg20150329_135102Down to the river flats, looking back towards Warden Rockhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150329_133007.jpg20150329_133007Ben hiking down the horse trailhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20150329_131654.jpg20150329_131654A massive erosion feature. 2024-02-22T18:34:01+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/mount-patterson/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/patterson1.jpgPattersonMt. Patterson ski/snowshoe ascent routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150408_130106.jpg20150408_130106The snow bridges on this river are soon gonna collapse... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150408_125937.jpg20150408_125937Bushwhacking wasn't funhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150408_125120.jpg20150408_125120Following Mistaya River outhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150408_124504.jpg20150408_124504A few hours ago I was way up there...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150408_123726.jpg20150408_123726A zoomed-in view of Mt. Patterson's summithttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150408_123711.jpg20150408_123711Looking back towards the striking Caldron Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150408_122317.jpg20150408_122317Down to the long river flats now. Ahead is Mt. Weed and Silverhorn Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150408_121540.jpg20150408_121540Looking back at the canyon. That big slope isn't visible though.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150408_120832.jpg20150408_120832This is the waterfall/canyon I had to bypass using that big slope2024-02-22T18:32:45+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/androlumbia/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150419_194155.jpg20150419_194155Looking back at our runhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150419_194002.jpg20150419_194002Ben and Columbia Icefieldhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150419_193208-1.jpg20150419_193208-1Can't get rid of this peak...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150419_193203-1.jpg20150419_193203-1Bryce and Columbia Icefieldhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150419_193159.jpg20150419_193159Vern skiing down "Androlumbia"https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150419_191338.jpg20150419_191338Charlton/Unwin and Mary Vaux are giants in Maligne areahttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150419_191304.jpg20150419_191304Behind Sunwapta Peak on the left skyline are Brazeau/Warren grouphttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150419_191255.jpg20150419_191255Mt. Andromeda's south sidehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150419_191228.jpg20150419_191228Leaving the summit behindhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150419_190547.jpg20150419_190547Me on the summit2024-02-22T18:31:37+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/snow-dome/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150419_130136.jpg20150419_130136And, here's a zoomed-in view of North Twinhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150419_132907.jpg20150419_132907Mt. Alexandra at centerhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150419_132904.jpg20150419_132904The bulky Mt. Brycehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150419_132852.jpg20150419_132852Oh the immense icefieldhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150419_130225.jpg20150419_130225Giants in the southern Selkirks in the backgroundhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150419_130200-1.jpg20150419_130200-1Mt. Columbiahttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150419_130156.jpg20150419_130156Mt. King Edwardhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150419_130138.jpg20150419_130138A zoomed-in view of South Twinhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150419_125933.jpg20150419_125933Athabasca and Andromeda - the classicshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150419_125923.jpg20150419_125923Mt. Forbes and the Lyells2024-02-22T18:31:15+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/mount-columbia/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/columbia2.jpgColumbiaMt. Columbia ski ascent route via The Trenchhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/downclimb.jpgdownclimbVern and I down-climbing the steep snow. Photo by Benhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/clemenceau.jpgclemenceauA zoomed-in view towards Tusk Peak and Mt. Clemenceauhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150420_093312.jpg20150420_093312Done! But I'll be back up there sooner than later, hopefully..https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150420_092455.jpg20150420_092455Uh the tiring road slog (~2 km) back to the parking lothttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/10918963_10153262310954586_2342212642112162562_o.jpg10918963_10153262310954586_2342212642112162562_oVern got an excellent picture of this crow who ate my food... Photo by Vernhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/11169807_10153262310959586_6368923725978167891_o.jpg11169807_10153262310959586_6368923725978167891_oBen and I down-climbing the Face. Photo by Vernhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150420_084121.jpg20150420_084121See? Vern bootpacking down. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150420_082759.jpg20150420_082759This slope is very steep and icy. We ended up having to take skis offhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150420_082754.jpg20150420_082754Looking back from just past the Snow Dome drop zones2024-02-22T18:31:01+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/jasper/thunderbolt-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150427_134426.jpg20150427_134426Ben trying to get up this steep slope without putting his skins back on. And he succeeded! https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150427_131325.jpg20150427_131325Skiing backhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150427_130047.jpg20150427_130047Looking back at our objective - Thunderbolt Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150427_130038.jpg20150427_130038Outpost Peak looks impressive againhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150427_130028.jpg20150427_130028Down to the river flats now, looking towards Mt. Clitheroehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150427_122613.jpg20150427_122613Great skiinghttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150427_120818.jpg20150427_120818Nice and soft !!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150427_120021.jpg20150427_120021Looking back at our trackshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150427_115604.jpg20150427_115604Descending a rock step near the summithttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20150427_114323.jpg20150427_114323Me on the summit of Thunderbolt 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Mara Peak from Manning Park ski resort. GPX DLhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20120718_163801.jpg20120718_163801Heading backhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20120718_162722.jpg20120718_162722As far as the summit views gohttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20120718_162706.jpg20120718_162706Me on the summit of Mara Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20120718_161551.jpg20120718_161551Descending off the false summithttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20120718_161547.jpg20120718_161547Alex jumped off a cornice herehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20120718_161212.jpg20120718_161212The true summit aheadhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20120718_160743.jpg20120718_160743Typical terrain along the ridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20120718_153541.jpg20120718_153541This is that steep and bushy parthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20120718_153053.jpg20120718_153053Arriving at the top of the "blue chair"2023-12-01T07:06:41+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/blinch-peak-and-flinch-peak/2023-11-30T21:45:45+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/gloomy-peak/2023-11-27T22:10:32+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/donat-hill/2023-11-24T06:50:17+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/anif-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/20130712_121041.jpg20130712_121041One last look at Atwell Peak/Mt. Garibaldi massifhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/20130712_121031.jpg20130712_121031Lots of steep rolls like thishttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/20130712_121022.jpg20130712_121022Vlad demonstrating the technique of glissading on soft powderhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/20130712_120557.jpg20130712_120557Time to go down. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/img_72171.jpgimg_7217Me on the summit of Anif Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/img_7217.jpgimg_7217Me on the summit of Anif Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/20130712_113942.jpg20130712_113942A winder shot of Ledge, Sky Pilot, Copilot and Habrichhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/20130712_113925.jpg20130712_113925Red Mountain and Ben Lomond, also by Mountain Lake areahttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/20130712_113923.jpg20130712_113923Mt. Sheer by Mountain Lake areahttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/20130712_113920.jpg20130712_113920Ledge Mountain and Sky Pilot Mountain2023-11-24T06:35:35+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/farrer-peak-diez-vistas-high-point/2023-11-24T06:35:10+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/snoqualmie-mountain/2023-11-23T05:33:29+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/poignant-peak/2023-11-23T05:30:42+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/quirin-peak-hydro-mountain/2023-11-23T05:30:12+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/mount-cannell/2023-11-23T05:29:06+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/cairn-peak/2023-11-21T22:20:46+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/hidden-lake-peaks/2023-11-21T02:07:11+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/mount-forgotten/2023-11-20T19:22:44+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/little-si/2023-11-14T04:34:30+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/hawkins-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/img_5782.jpgimg_57822023-11-14T04:01:21+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/howse-peak/2024-10-02T15:34:13+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/twins-tower/2023-11-11T05:53:33+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/north-twin/2023-11-11T05:53:21+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/west-twin/2023-11-11T05:53:09+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/south-twin/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/20150507_211742.jpg20150507_211742One more picture at sunset time. The clouds were lifting up and our spirit was high.2023-11-11T05:52:58+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/mount-cromwell/2023-11-11T05:52:34+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/mount-bryce/2023-11-11T05:50:17+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/wasootch-tower/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/img_3341.jpgIMG_3341Me ready for the 2nd rappel. Photo by Benhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/img_3319.jpgIMG_3319Me on the 1st rappel. Photo by Benhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/20150523_171804.jpg20150523_171804Almost back to car, looking backhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/20150523_171312.jpg20150523_171312Down to Wasootch Creek nowhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/20150523_164316.jpg20150523_164316Another picture looking backhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/20150523_163610.jpg20150523_163610Oh here's the post-holing...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/20150523_162717.jpg20150523_162717Looking back at the W. Face. I've heard a 5.5 route goes up this face, but doesn't look easy neitherhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/20150523_161708.jpg20150523_161708It's overhanging near the bottomhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/20150523_161632.jpg20150523_161632Halfway down!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/20150523_161559.jpg20150523_161559Ben starting the 2nd rappel2023-11-11T05:49:06+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/mons-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120104_220610.jpg20120104_220610Looking back at our objective from camphttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120104_170305.jpg20120104_170305Lots of care was required to descend this headwallhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120104_170120.jpg20120104_170120Terrain was thin and snow was not in the greatest conditionshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120104_170109.jpg20120104_170109One of the bigger open crevasses...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120104_165602.jpg20120104_165602Ben patiently waited for me before the crevassed sectionhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120104_164732-1.jpg20120104_164732-1Panorama view from Mons Icefield. Click to view large size.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120104_161507.jpg20120104_161507More skiinghttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120104_161502.jpg20120104_161502Ben making turns with Forbes as a back-groundhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120104_161456.jpg20120104_161456Time to skihttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120104_160654.jpg20120104_160654The Lyells were clearly up but not enough to see the summits2023-11-11T05:48:12+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/mount-forbes/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/img_3621.jpgIMG_3621Me leading across a sketchy snow slope. Photo by Benhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/img_3604.jpgIMG_3604Me climbing the most exposed part. Note the wetness... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/mons1.jpgMonsMe negotiating the first tricky section. Rigid boots only made it harder.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/img_3423.jpgIMG_3423Me crossing a log bridge. Photo by Benhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120106_112757.jpg20120106_112757Now, this is a mighty river...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120106_112710.jpg20120106_112710Back across the bridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120106_111351-1.jpg20120106_111351-1Due to the overcast sky, there wasn't much to see from this Howse River viewpointhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120106_093703.jpg20120106_093703Sign on the trailhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120106_093205.jpg20120106_093205Glacier River view from the campground on its East endhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120106_090009.jpg20120106_090009Continuing the slog back2025-06-29T04:19:53+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/the-turret/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120117_125542.jpg20120117_125542The boring hike-outhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120117_125538.jpg20120117_125538The water was cleanhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120117_122440.jpg20120117_122440Another group on their way towards the Passhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120117_122342.jpg20120117_122342Down to the broad meadows by Elk Pass Trail. Prime bear terrain...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120117_115011.jpg20120117_115011Bushwhacking alongside a small creekhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120117_113222.jpg20120117_113222Into the bush. We managed to stay away from the brushes on descenthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120117_104927.jpg20120117_104927Glacier Lilyhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120117_102146.jpg20120117_102146Continuing descendinghttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120117_101249.jpg20120117_101249Descending through wet Krumholtzhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120117_093524.jpg20120117_093524Me on the summit of The Turret2023-11-11T05:45:39+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/farbus-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120202_131449.jpg20120202_131449This sign explains this road well... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120202_124119.jpg20120202_124119Mm. Not very good... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120202_115131.jpg20120202_115131Ben walking across the bridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120202_115010.jpg20120202_115010Vern au-cheval across the log bridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120202_104000.jpg20120202_104000Slippery down-sloping terrainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120202_103430.jpg20120202_103430Descending the trail in rainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120202_085444.jpg20120202_085444Thankfully it wasn't a total white out on the icefieldhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120202_085439-1.jpg20120202_085439-1Weather turned in on our exit day... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120201_154632.jpg20120201_154632Back to the slog... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120201_153020-1.jpg20120201_153020-1I like the shadow of the clouds on Lyell Icefield2023-11-11T05:44:09+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/arctomys-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120131_230409.jpg20120131_230409A view at duskhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120131_200436.jpg20120131_200436Back to Lyell Hut - our home...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120131_193011.jpg20120131_193011Over the broad shoulder of Lyell V now, looking towards the Hut and Lens Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120131_190158.jpg20120131_190158A lot of crevasses on Lyell Icefieldhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120131_183626.jpg20120131_183626Mons Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120131_181422.jpg20120131_181422Back on the icefield proper now, looking backhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120131_172510.jpg20120131_172510Looking ahead to the massive elevation regainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120131_172506.jpg20120131_172506Marching back across the low snow bowl... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120131_164910.jpg20120131_164910Vern descending from the false summithttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120131_164907.jpg20120131_164907Ben with the impressive icefalls behind2023-11-11T05:43:58+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/ernest-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120130_192124.jpg20120130_192124Looking back at our tracks from Lyell 2/3 colhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120130_190108.jpg20120130_190108Vern ready to descend the 'schrundhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120130_185357.jpg20120130_185357Oh here's that gigantic bergschrundhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120130_184633.jpg20120130_184633Descending the summit ridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120130_183458.jpg20120130_183458Me on the summit of Lyell III, my 29th 11,000er!!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120130_182923.jpg20120130_182923Lyell II and Lyell I - our next objectiveshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120130_183338.jpg20120130_183338The "broken tower traverse" on the S. Ridge of Lyell IV - looks very snowy too...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120130_183153.jpg20120130_183153Arras Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120130_183150.jpg20120130_183150The very snowy and out-of-shaped N. Ridge of Lyell Vhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/20120130_183139.jpg20120130_183139Peaks on Freshfield Icefield rise behind peaks on Mons Icefield2023-11-11T05:41:59+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/mount-huber/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120207_224835.jpg20120207_224835Oh the road slog.... Painful...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120207_211916.jpg20120207_211916The trail. Note the weather... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120207_211912.jpg20120207_211912Lake O'Harahttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120207_205707.jpg20120207_205707Looking back towards the Huber Ledgeshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120207_204817.jpg20120207_204817Almost back to the Wiwaxy Gap (Huber/Wiwaxy col)https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120207_202846.jpg20120207_202846Ben rappelling the cruxhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120207_200754.jpg20120207_200754Steep terrain... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120207_195500.jpg20120207_195500More of the Huber Ledgeshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120207_194414.jpg20120207_194414In the foreground are Wiwaxy Peaks. Behind is Odaray Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120207_194412.jpg20120207_194412A view from the Ledges2023-11-11T05:40:51+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/mount-victoria/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/victoria-and-huber.jpgVictoria-and-HuberAscent route for Mt. Victoria and Mt. Huberhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120207_155359.jpg20120207_155359Easily crossed the bergschrund https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120207_155001.jpg20120207_155001Ben down-climbing snowhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120207_154807.jpg20120207_154807It's steep for a while so we had to face inwardshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120207_154722.jpg20120207_154722Onto the snowhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120207_152721.jpg20120207_152721The typical Rockies' choss...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120207_151846.jpg20120207_151846Now, time to down-climb the tight and loose chimneyhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120207_143155.jpg20120207_143155Yet another rock stephttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120207_142757.jpg20120207_142757Another look at Mt. Huberhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120207_142754.jpg20120207_142754Ben down-climbing a rock step on the SE Ridge2023-11-11T05:40:41+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/purcell-mountains/merioneth-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120212_115858.jpg20120212_115858And then the trail...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120212_113621.jpg20120212_113621Back on the path through that boulder fieldhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120212_110235.jpg20120212_110235Descending towards the lower Welsh Lakehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120212_105117.jpg20120212_105117Eric hopping over a streamhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120212_104740.jpg20120212_104740The pretty Aberystwyth Lakehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120212_095639.jpg20120212_095639Looking back at my objectivehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120212_095635.jpg20120212_095635Steep side-hilling on grass around Harlech Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120212_094148.jpg20120212_094148Hiking along the connecting ridge to Harlech Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120212_092559.jpg20120212_092559Forester Creek Valleyhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120212_091627.jpg20120212_091627A tele-photo of Jumbo Mountain2023-11-11T05:39:42+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/purcell-mountains/harlech-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120212_085054-1.jpg20120212_085054-1Another panorama from the summit. Click to view large size.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120212_085225.jpg20120212_085225North Star Glacierhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120212_085154.jpg20120212_085154North Star Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120212_085146.jpg20120212_085146Gwendoline Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120212_085136.jpg20120212_085136Scotch Peakshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120212_085126.jpg20120212_085126Taurus Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120212_085122.jpg20120212_085122Mt. Ethelberthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120212_085014-1.jpg20120212_085014-1Summit Panorama from Harlech Peak. Click to view large size.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120212_083553.jpg20120212_083553Higher up on the ridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120212_082646.jpg20120212_082646Looking back at Aberystwyth Lake and the environ 2023-11-11T05:39:29+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/purcell-mountains/carmarthen-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120211_182954.jpg20120211_182954A view towards Connemara Peak from our camphttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120211_182948.jpg20120211_182948Looking ahead towards upper Welsh Lake and our camphttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120211_180350.jpg20120211_180350Looking back at the E. Face of Carmarthen Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120211_180141.jpg20120211_180141Another look at this lakehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120211_180134-1.jpg20120211_180134-1Panorama of the uppermost lake. Click to view large size.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120211_174606.jpg20120211_174606Eric chose to glissade the lower snow slopehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120211_174604.jpg20120211_174604A look towards the uppermost glacial lake and the Irish Peakshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120211_174336.jpg20120211_174336And yes, more boulders...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120211_173151.jpg20120211_173151Lots of boulders...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120211_173147.jpg20120211_173147And then, the loose boulders2023-11-11T05:37:59+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/purcell-mountains/gwendoline-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120211_143651.jpg20120211_143651Carmarthen Peak will be our next objectivehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120211_141144.jpg20120211_141144The lower North Star Glacier was dryhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120211_141135.jpg20120211_141135There're fair number of crevasses on this glacier...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120211_135429.jpg20120211_135429A look at North Star Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120211_135426.jpg20120211_135426Onto the North Star Glacierhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120211_130722.jpg20120211_130722And then, down the snow fieldhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120211_125333.jpg20120211_125333Starting the initial descent down the NW slopeshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120211_122058-1.jpg20120211_122058-1Another panorama from the summit. Click to view large size.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120211_121924-1.jpg20120211_121924-1Panorama of North Star Glacier from the summit. Click to view large size.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120211_122028.jpg20120211_122028A neat pond on the glacier2023-11-11T05:37:44+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/purcell-mountains/leitrim-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120210_190113.jpg20120210_190113Back to camp. Time to hide inside my tent thank to the bugs...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120210_185229.jpg20120210_185229Killarney Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120210_185215.jpg20120210_185215The middle Welsh Lakehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120210_184929-1.jpg20120210_184929-1A panorama view from this scenic vantage point. Click to view large size.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120210_184731.jpg20120210_184731Connemara and Donegal Peakshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120210_184727.jpg20120210_184727Looking back towards Antrim and Leitrim Peakshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120210_183142.jpg20120210_183142Looking down towards Welsh Lakes from the boulder fieldhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120210_182400.jpg20120210_182400The typical boulder hopping for roughly 2 km distancehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120210_170723.jpg20120210_170723Eric glissading the last bithttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120210_163244.jpg20120210_163244And here's another snow field on the lower slopes2023-11-11T05:37:20+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/purcell-mountains/antrim-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120210_141312.jpg20120210_141312Me on the summit of Antrim Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120210_141107.jpg20120210_141107The glaciated Mt. Delphine and the rocky Mt. Farnham - 2 of the Purcell 11,000ershttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120210_141102.jpg20120210_141102Gelway Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120210_141050.jpg20120210_141050The gorgeous North Star Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120210_141040.jpg20120210_141040The big peak behind is Mt. Ethelberthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120210_141036.jpg20120210_141036Connemara Peak looks pretty challenging. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120210_141002.jpg20120210_141002Leitrim Peak will be my next objectivehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120210_141000-1.jpg20120210_141000-1Summit Panorama. Click to view large size.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120210_140421.jpg20120210_140421The last bit to the summithttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120210_140253.jpg20120210_140253These two big peaks behind are Mt. Sally Serera (L) and Donard Peak (R)2023-11-11T05:36:58+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/purcell-mountains/mount-alpha-centauri/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/alpha-centauri.jpgAlpha-CentauriMt. Alpha Centauri ascent route from Welsh Lakeshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/welsh-lake-group.jpgWelsh-Lake-groupApproach and ascent routes for the 7 peaks we climbed in this trip. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120209_205332.jpg20120209_205332Eric seems like enjoying the boulders, or maybe not.. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120209_205320.jpg20120209_205320Still fair a bit of ways to descendhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120209_205010.jpg20120209_205010Oh here came the boulder field... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120209_204003.jpg20120209_204003Walking around the uppermost lake on a snow fieldhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120209_203809.jpg20120209_203809Looking back, the sun was setting behind Alpha Centauri/Carmarthen colhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120209_203802-1.jpg20120209_203802-1Heading back to camp with gorgeous evening viewshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120209_203136.jpg20120209_203136Almost finished the snow sloghttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120209_200755.jpg20120209_200755Descending Centaurus Glacier2023-11-11T05:35:50+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/mount-sir-douglas/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/sir-douglas-041.jpgsir-douglas-041Re-gaining back to the false summit. Photo by Vernhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/sir-douglas-040.jpgsir-douglas-040Careful foot placements are absolute on this exposed ridge. Photo by Vernhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/sir-douglas-035.jpgsir-douglas-035After regaining the ridge, this is me tackling the terrain ahead. Photo by Vernhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/sir-douglas-032.jpgsir-douglas-032Me and Ben ascending one of the trickier steps on the NW Face side. Photo by Vernhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/sir-douglas-029.jpgsir-douglas-029More slabs. Photo by Vernhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/sir-douglas-018.jpgsir-douglas-018Me ascending the typical (loose) ground to gain the low col. Photo by Vernhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/sir-douglas-016.jpgsir-douglas-016Me taking a break on a flatter section of the ice. Photo by Vernhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120222_221311.jpg20120222_221311Dusk at "Mud Lake" near the Burstall Pass trail-head. Long day... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120222_210744.jpg20120222_210744Crossing the swampy sectionhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120222_193620.jpg20120222_193620Mt. Birdwood pokes behind2023-11-11T05:34:40+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/the-north/congregational-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120301_172033.jpg20120301_172033And then, the forestry service road...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120301_171125.jpg20120301_171125Hiking down the ATV roadhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120301_165800.jpg20120301_165800There's more weather coming in from Prince George directionhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120301_165748.jpg20120301_165748The small town of McBridehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120301_165736.jpg20120301_165736Fraser River and some interesting river valley scenery https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120301_165614.jpg20120301_165614Down to the shelter nowhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120301_165345-1.jpg20120301_165345-1Panorama of the Trench, also Fraser River Valleyhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120301_165302.jpg20120301_165302Looking back towards McBride Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120301_162021.jpg20120301_162021In a few seconds we were in a blizzard...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120301_162019.jpg20120301_162019Too bad another storm moved in2023-11-11T05:33:35+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/the-north/mcbride-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120301_121333-1.jpg20120301_121333-1Panorama view from the true summit. Click to view large size.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120301_121349.jpg20120301_121349Congregational Peak and The Blackwater Tuskhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120301_120556.jpg20120301_120556This impressive pinnacle is The Blackwater Tuskhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120301_120542-1.jpg20120301_120542-1Another panorama view. Click to view large size.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120301_115545.jpg20120301_115545Congregational Peak will be our next objectivehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120301_115456-1.jpg20120301_115456-1Panorama of Rocky Mountain Trench from the summit. Click to view large size.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120301_115003.jpg20120301_115003The Rocky Mountain Trench https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120301_114954.jpg20120301_114954Mike taking in the viewshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120301_114947.jpg20120301_114947Another look at the unnamed bump to our westhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/20120301_114537.jpg20120301_114537Terrain gets a bit steeper near the 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Fee from near the parking lot.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121114_132942.jpg20121114_132942Lots of walking on those dry stretches https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/13002502_10153696188931461_8884632465637004352_o.jpg13002502_10153696188931461_8884632465637004352_oWhat's that for?! ...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121114_123243.jpg20121114_123243Skiing down into the bowl on some slushy snowhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121114_122259.jpg20121114_122259Skiing down from the high passhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121114_121900.jpg20121114_121900Looking back at the Cayley massifhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121114_120516.jpg20121114_120516Those sub-peaks on Mt. Fee with the highway of snowmobile tracks in fronthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121114_113859.jpg20121114_113859Pykett Peak and Amicus Mountain on Ashlu - Elaho Dividehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121114_113842.jpg20121114_113842Traversing the high bench on the west side of Brandywine Mountain2023-07-10T23:47:00+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/chronological-list/2022-archive/2023-07-10T22:49:55+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/chronological-list/2020-archive/2023-07-10T22:46:01+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/mount-sedgwick/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/83712421_10157331564666461_4791038096692842063_o.jpg83712421_10157331564666461_4791038096692842063_oVlad, me and the south ridge of Mt. Sedgwick. Photo by Alex R.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200628_img_5355.jpg20200628_IMG_5355Mt. Roderick in the foreground, our final objective in this trip... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200628_img_5351.jpg20200628_IMG_5351Another photo of Mt. Niobe/Mt. Pelops and Mt. Garibaldi/Atwell Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200628_img_5344.jpg20200628_IMG_5344Another photo of the Howe Soundhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200628_img_5341.jpg20200628_IMG_5341I don't think this lake has a name, on the west sidehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200628_img_5337.jpg20200628_IMG_5337Alex leading us onto the bump ahead. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200628_img_5334.jpg20200628_IMG_5334More ridge rambling. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200628_img_5425.jpg20200628_IMG_5425Alex and Vlad descending, showing the massive vertical relief of Coast Mtns.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200628_img_5320.jpg20200628_IMG_5320Vlad descending the south ridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200628_img_5426.jpg20200628_IMG_5426Alex and Vlad on the summit now. We even found the register.. 2023-07-10T22:43:12+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/mount-conybeare/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/106240735_10157331563366461_7425881363401309352_o.jpg106240735_10157331563366461_7425881363401309352_oMe down-climbing into the couloir. Photo by Alex R.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200628_img_5130.jpg20200628_IMG_5130The west face of Mt. Conybeare from just above the col on Mt. Sedgwick sidehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200628_img_5123.jpg20200628_IMG_5123The Red Tusk from Conybeare/Sedgwick colhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200628_img_5117.jpg20200628_IMG_5117Vlad coming down to near the colhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/82245759_10157331563546461_1199952775854526655_o.jpg82245759_10157331563546461_1199952775854526655_oThis is a critical spot that we had to descend the north side to bypass a cliffhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200628_img_5111.jpg20200628_IMG_5111Picking our route carefully to avoid bluffs and cliffs https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200628_img_5428.jpg20200628_IMG_5428More about the down-climbing in the couloirhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200628_img_5101.jpg20200628_IMG_5101Alex and Vlad down-climbing the couloirhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/20200628_img_5096.jpg20200628_IMG_5096Descending the upper south face https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/105491663_10157331562891461_3279016914494957065_o.jpg105491663_10157331562891461_3279016914494957065_oVlad and I scrambling a bushy step. Photo by Alex R.2023-07-10T22:35:08+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/mount-murchison-bc/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200628_img_5014.jpg20200628_IMG_5014Marius plodding with the vast terrain behind. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200628_img_5012.jpg20200628_IMG_5012Vlad leading some rock and bushy scrambling https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200628_img_5009.jpg20200628_IMG_5009In the foreground is Mt. Thyestes across Fries Creekhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200628_img_5008.jpg20200628_IMG_5008Looking back towards Mt. Murchisonhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200628_img_5006.jpg20200628_IMG_5006Descending on snow was always faster than on rockhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200628_img_5005.jpg20200628_IMG_5005A closer look at Mt. Garibaldi/Atwell Peak massif https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200628_img_4998.jpg20200628_IMG_4998A bit of fun rock scrambling https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/106458843_10157331562641461_2403079124449819499_o.jpg106458843_10157331562641461_2403079124449819499_oMe with Echo Lake behind. Photo by Alex R.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200628_img_4989.jpg20200628_IMG_4989Down-climbing the snow aretehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200628_img_4984.jpg20200628_IMG_4984This is looking down at Echo Lake and Squamish Valley2023-07-10T22:34:32+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/brandywine-mountain/2023-07-10T03:32:56+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/mount-colonel-foster/2023-07-08T05:35:58+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/big-kangaroo/2023-07-04T00:52:05+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/mount-deception/2023-07-03T22:38:48+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/mount-clark-olympics-wa/2023-07-03T17:15:18+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/north-mountain-darrington-wa/2023-06-29T04:11:11+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/mount-cruiser/2023-06-27T05:59:59+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/mount-caspar/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200216_img_5414-2-1.jpg20200216_IMG_5414-2A closer look at Mt. Dukehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200216_img_5477.jpg20200216_IMG_5477The short stretch on the old road had some bushwhacking in alders..https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200216_img_5473.jpg20200216_IMG_5473Jake and Selena descending the steep forest https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200216_img_5469.jpg20200216_IMG_5469Looking back at Jake and Selena descending from the false summithttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200216_img_5468.jpg20200216_IMG_5468We were in a total blizzard on the summit ridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200216_img_5465.jpg20200216_IMG_5465Jake heading down on the summit ridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200216_img_5462.jpg20200216_IMG_5462A while later, this is me on the summit of Mt. Caspar in a white-outhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200216_img_5458.jpg20200216_IMG_5458Jake ascending onto the summit ridge in deteriorating weatherhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200216_130356.jpg20200216_130356Me heading for the false summit. Photo by Jake R.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200216_img_5450.jpg20200216_IMG_5450Jake and Selena on the ridge2023-06-27T05:28:19+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/south-rockies/mount-erickson/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/mount-erickson-scramble-route1.jpgMount-Erickson-Scramble-RouteMt. Erickson scramble route2023-06-26T23:47:11+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/emerald-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/emerald.jpgEmeraldEmerald Peak snowshoe/ski ascent route2023-06-26T23:46:31+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/jasper/elysium-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/elysium-to-pattison3.jpgElysium-to-PattisonElysium Mountain to Mt. Pattison winter traverse route2023-06-26T23:45:57+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/jasper/mount-pattison/2023-06-26T23:45:29+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/jasper/mount-edith-cavell/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/edith-cavell1.jpgEdith-CavellMt. Edith Cavell traverse route (up E. Ridge down W. Ridge)2023-06-26T23:44:55+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/jasper/daybreak-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/daybreak-peak-route1.jpgDaybreak-Peak-routeDaybreak Peak scramble route2023-06-26T23:43:25+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/mushroom-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140907_101046.jpg20140907_101046Easily crossed Sunwapta Riverhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140907_095307.jpg20140907_095307An impressive waterfall that we bypassedhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140907_094230.jpg20140907_094230Woolley Creekhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140907_094233.jpg20140907_094233Hiking along Woolley Creekhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140907_092114.jpg20140907_092114Ben crossing a log. Very slippery herehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140907_083952.jpg20140907_083952Some clouds were forming up in the front rangeshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/img_7285.jpgimg_7285Me with Mushroom Peak just above my head. Photo by Benhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140907_073912.jpg20140907_073912Woolley at golden glow. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140907_081814.jpg20140907_081814Leaving this pristine bivy site behindhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140907_072718.jpg20140907_072718Mt. Woolley's east face is yet unclimbed. 2023-06-26T23:42:14+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/diadem-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/woolley-diadem-1.jpgWoolley,-Diadem-1Ascent routes for Mt. Woolley, Diadem Peak and Mushroom Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140906_163004.jpg20140906_163004Ben in the 1st couloir. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140906_163001.jpg20140906_163001Vern finishing the 1st couloir. We didn't get a photo of the hardest part.. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/10646964_10152699053354586_6641896603809687639_n.jpg10646964_10152699053354586_6641896603809687639_nBen and I down-climbing the 1st couloir. Photo by Vern. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140906_155950.jpg20140906_155950Easily descended the chimney https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140906_155102.jpg20140906_155102There was still some snow on routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140906_155058.jpg20140906_155058Typical terrain on this parthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140906_154123.jpg20140906_154123Starting the diagonal traversehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140906_154118.jpg20140906_154118Impressive seracs as alwayshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140906_153454.jpg20140906_153454Almost finishing the 2nd couloir2023-06-26T23:41:43+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/mount-woolley/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140906_1229021.jpg20140906_122902Back to Woolley/Diadem colhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140906_0754111.jpg20140906_075411Ben negotiating the crevasse field. Crevasses that can suck in your house! https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140906_122005.jpg20140906_122005Diadem starts to look big againhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140906_121650.jpg20140906_121650Looking back up Woolley's north slopeshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140906_121634.jpg20140906_121634And, down the north slopes. Diadem Peak in the background would be our next objectivehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140906_120733.jpg20140906_120733Vern descending the summit ridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140906_120337.jpg20140906_120337So, no mistake allowed on this section. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140906_120333.jpg20140906_120333The exposure down the East side was huge! https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140906_113921-1.jpg20140906_113921-1Another panorama from the summit. Click to view large size.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140906_113905.jpg20140906_113905Me on the summit of Mt. Woolley, my 16th 11,000er!2023-06-26T23:41:11+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/little-alberta/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/woolley-diadem1.jpgWoolley,-DiademAscent routes for Little Alberta, Mt. Woolley, Diadem Peak and Mushroom Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/woolley-diadem.jpgWoolley-DiademAscent routes for Little Alberta, Woolley, Diadem and Mushroomhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/img_6722.jpgimg_6722Me and Vern descending back to camp. Photo by Ben Nhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140905_203813.jpg20140905_203813Moon rise over Stutfield Peak. Time to rest. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140905_203755.jpg20140905_203755Gorgeous evening colourshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140905_195612.jpg20140905_195612Hiking back. Woolley Shoulder high above on the right sidehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140905_195550.jpg20140905_195550Evening view of Diadem and Mushroomhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140905_193020.jpg20140905_193020Scree skiing! https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140905_193014.jpg20140905_193014Vern descending snow from Woolley Shoulderhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140905_192817.jpg20140905_192817Mt. King Edward finally free of clouds2023-06-26T23:40:38+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/monte-cristo-peak/2023-06-23T21:47:14+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/castle-rock-wenatchee-wa/2023-06-21T18:57:04+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/badger-mountain-wenatchee-wa/2023-06-21T06:17:36+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/chelan-butte/2023-06-21T05:20:32+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/cataract-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cataract1.jpgCataractCataract Peak approach and ascent routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140921_094815.jpg20140921_094815On the final slog. There was a temperature inversion and you can see the frost. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140921_082944.jpg20140921_082944Hiking outhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140921_082940.jpg20140921_082940The lovely meadowshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/img_8183.jpgimg_8183Me crossing a stream. Photo by Benhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140921_082339.jpg20140921_082339Dolomite Peak and its reflectionhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140921_081728.jpg20140921_081728Noseeum Mountain is always the eye-catching one. Now I want to ascend it. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140921_082322.jpg20140921_082322There's a tarn offering excellent morning views.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140921_074401.jpg20140921_074401And finally, on Mosquito Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140921_074222.jpg20140921_074222And, alpenglow on Noseeum Mountain2023-06-20T17:42:28+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/mount-abruzzi/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/abruzzi1.jpgAbruzziMt. Abruzzi approach and ascent route from Conner Lakeshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140915_121648.jpg20140915_121648Eric on the log jam. 5 min away from the parking lot!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140915_121458.jpg20140915_121458Mike led us across the final log jamhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140915_105454.jpg20140915_105454Oil and gas operation here?!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140915_102050.jpg20140915_102050Back to the sketchy log. I ended up putting crampons on - to justify the purpose of hauling them up anyway... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140915_083224.jpg20140915_083224A cool looking peak looking west. I don't think it's O'Neil Peak, but somewhere in that area. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140915_083214.jpg20140915_083214Just before we left, there's a layer of mist on the lake surface https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140915_072813.jpg20140915_072813Alpenglow in the morninghttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140914_185815.jpg20140914_185815And then, were treated with an empty cabin!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140914_185704.jpg20140914_185704Eventually we made back to the first lake.2023-06-20T17:41:30+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/cinnamon-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/cinnamon1.jpgCinnamonCinnamon Peak scramble routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140823_194223.jpg20140823_194223Not a pleasant way to end a day...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140823_194204.jpg20140823_194204Ah the devil's clubs...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140823_193428.jpg20140823_193428Eventually we entered the bush again...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140823_175322.jpg20140823_175322More slippery terrain to descend. Typical, typical...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140823_180252.jpg20140823_180252Many down-climbs like this beside the stream/waterfallhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140823_175319.jpg20140823_175319Side-hill traversinghttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140823_175004.jpg20140823_175004Ben picking a line down the wet bushhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140823_170133.jpg20140823_170133Still a long long way to gohttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140823_175001.jpg20140823_175001Eric down-climbing slippery terrain beside a mini waterfall2023-06-20T17:40:33+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/black-rock-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/black-rock-mountain1.jpgBlack-Rock-MountainBlack Rock Mountain scramble routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140720_153905.jpg20140720_153905Then walking on the road. It's heavily destroyed by the flood. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140720_151749.jpg20140720_151749Ben fording Ghost Riverhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_3288.jpgimg_3288Me hiking out of the woods. Behind me was where that trail started... Thank to the flood it's no longer obvioushttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140720_145939.jpg20140720_145939The campsite at the bottom of Black Rock Mountain trailhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140720_133728.jpg20140720_133728Me on the summit of Black Rock Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140720_132720.jpg20140720_132720Looking down at the Ghost Riverhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140720_132603.jpg20140720_132603An unnamed peak looking north. Further north would be Panther River areahttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140720_132713.jpg20140720_132713Saddle Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140720_132706.jpg20140720_132706Orient Point2023-06-20T17:39:30+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/cirrus-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/cirrus2.jpgCirrusCirrus Mountain ascent route via Coleman Lakehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/cirrus-230.jpgcirrus-230Dropping down the big slope. Photo by Vernhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/cirrus-227.jpgcirrus-227Me and Ben packing our snowshoes in the backpack. Ready to drop down. Photo by Vernhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/cirrus-211.jpgcirrus-211Starting the descent. Photo by Vernhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/cirrus-209.jpgcirrus-209Another group shot on the summit. Photo by Vernhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/cirrus-169.jpgcirrus-169Me on the summit ridge, just about to switch gears. Photo by Vernhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/20140602_095104.jpg20140602_095104Steep descent in the foresthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/20140602_095047.jpg20140602_095047Steep waterfall lower downhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/img_2072.jpgimg_2072Side-sloping to bypass the first lake. Photo by Benhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/20140602_083526.jpg20140602_083526Mount Saskatchewan. It deserves more attention than some of the 11,000ers. 2023-06-20T17:38:08+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/purcell-mountains/copperstain-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140715_111310.jpg20140715_111310An outfitter cabinhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140715_105800.jpg20140715_105800Crossing back Baird Brookhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140715_093959.jpg20140715_093959The boring and long hike-outhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140715_082600.jpg20140715_082600Hiking back down this lovely valleyhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140715_093956.jpg20140715_093956A tarn on the returnhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140715_074631.jpg20140715_074631A view of Sir Donald from near Grizzly Colhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140715_073607.jpg20140715_073607Eric on the ridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140715_073029.jpg20140715_073029Looking back along the undulating ridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140715_070939.jpg20140715_070939Leaving the summit behindhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140715_072806.jpg20140715_072806Eric descending a snow slope2023-06-20T17:36:36+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/purcell-mountains/bald-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bald-and-copperstain1.jpgBald-and-CopperstainBald Mountain and Copperstain Mountain ascent routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140714_133350.jpg20140714_133350Me on the summit of Bald Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140714_132505.jpg20140714_132505Fractured glacier at the base of Sir Donaldhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140714_132620.jpg20140714_132620Moonrakar Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140714_132415.jpg20140714_132415Wheeler Group and Dawson Group - looking far southhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140714_132622.jpg20140714_132622Copperstain Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140714_132446.jpg20140714_132446Uto Peak and Eagle Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140714_132528.jpg20140714_132528Mt. MacDonaldhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140714_132538.jpg20140714_132538Mt. Rogershttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140714_132433.jpg20140714_132433Mt. Sir Donald2023-06-20T17:36:04+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/mount-pugh/2023-06-18T05:35:31+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/jasper/mount-cumnock/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cumnock1.jpgCumnockMt. Cumnock scramble route2023-06-18T05:06:51+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/mount-collie/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/collie1.jpgCollieSki ascent route for Mt. Collie via Bow Huthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140430_100517.jpg20140430_100517Done. Looking back from near the parking lot. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140430_090247.jpg20140430_090247Vulture Peak in the afternoonhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140430_090253.jpg20140430_090253Back to Bow Huthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140430_071120.jpg20140430_071120Ferenc making turnshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140430_073756.jpg20140430_073756Upward slogging back to Rhondda/Gordon colhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140430_071113.jpg20140430_071113Impressive serac countryhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140430_071118.jpg20140430_071118Vern skiing downhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140430_070555.jpg20140430_070555Into Collie bowlhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140430_070823.jpg20140430_070823Ferenc ready to ski down the 'ramp'.2023-06-18T05:06:15+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/david-thompson/cline-fire-lookout/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/cline-fire-lookout1.jpgCline-Fire-LookoutCline Fire Lookout ascent route2023-06-18T05:04:49+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/fortress-mountain/2023-06-18T05:03:30+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/catacombs-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/catacombs-and-fortress2.jpgCatacombs-and-FortressCatacombs Mountain and Fortress Mountain ascent route2023-06-18T05:02:57+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/south-rockies/carbondale-hill/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/carbondale-hill1.jpgCarbondale-HillCarbondale Hill standard hiking/snowshoeing ascent route2023-06-18T04:58:42+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/purcell-mountains/mount-brewer/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/brewer1.jpgBrewerMt. Brewer scramble routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6152230.jpgP6152230A perfect place to relaxhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6152225.jpgP6152225Windermere Lake. Next time when I have a long stretch of days I might go here again!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6152227.jpgP6152227At the end of this day, we gave Windermere Lake a brief visithttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6152216.jpgP6152216Wild flowershttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6152214.jpgP6152214Back down to the valley bottom. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6152213.jpgP6152213One of the many, many unnamed summitshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6152209.jpgP6152209Ben and Eric. We traversed a bit since we had triggered a small sluff on that linehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6152207.jpgP6152207Eric sliding on snowhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6152206.jpgP6152206Ben glissading down the mountain2023-06-18T04:54:39+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/mount-bourgeau/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/bourgeau.jpgBourgeauMt. Bourgeau standard scramble routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/p8018282.jpgP8018282Mount Cory is the big one; you can also see The Finger on left.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/p8018277.jpgP8018277Bourgeau Lakehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/p8018276.jpgP8018276Bourgeau Lake and Mount Bourgeauhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/p8018274.jpgP8018274More of this tarnhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/p8018271.jpgP8018271Beautiful afternoon view of this tarnhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/p8018266.jpgP8018266The same tarnhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/p8018259.jpgP8018259The unnamed tarnhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/p8018250.jpgP8018250Mount Assiniboinehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/p8018208.jpgP8018208We descended a bit to a lower sub-summit to get better views. This is looking back towards the main summit2023-06-18T04:54:07+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/jasper/black-cat-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/black-cat-to-boule.jpgBlack-Cat-to-BouleBlack Cat Mountain to Boule Roche ascent routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6041067.jpgP6041067Me on the summit of Black Cat Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6041065.jpgP6041065Another view from the tophttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6041063-64.jpgP6041063-64Zooming-in towards Fiddle Rangehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6041061-62.jpgP6041061-62More great viewshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6041060.jpgP6041060Another unnamed summit in Boule Roche.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6041056-58.jpgP6041056-58Panorama from the summit. Click to view large size.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6041055.jpgP6041055This bump also has a name, Prime Mountain (unofficial though)https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6041053.jpgP6041053The impressive Boule Rochehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6041049.jpgP6041049But the summit has an open area. This is an unnamed summit in Boule Roche2023-06-18T04:53:28+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/jasper/boule-roche/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6041210.jpgP6041210Back to Seovil Creek. Not far from our car now!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6041209.jpgP6041209Ben and Ken showing the correct turn to start this cutline. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6041206.jpgP6041206It was obviously very stuck https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6041204.jpgP6041204An abandoned truck. Don't know why it traveled so deeply into ATV terrain...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6041203.jpgP6041203And some good viewshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6041201.jpgP6041201Terrain got easier lower downhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6041200.jpgP6041200Ben decided to ford ithttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6041198.jpgP6041198Ken crossing the creek on a natural log bridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6041196.jpgP6041196Typical bushwhacking for the next few kilometershttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/p6041193.jpgP6041193So the bushwhack starts2023-06-18T04:52:49+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/big-bend-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/big-bend-to-sask-junior1.jpgBig-Bend-to-Sask-JuniorBig Bend Peak and Mt. Saskatchewan Junior snowshoe ascent routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/big-bend-to-sask-junior.jpgBig-Bend-to-Sask-JuniorThe traverse of Big Bend Peak to Mt. Saskatchewan Juniorhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/img_0363.jpgimg_0363Me with the Big Bend below. Photo by Ben Nearingburghttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4218575.jpgP4218575Eric scrambling up a short band.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4218570.jpgP4218570Looking towards the true summithttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4218568.jpgP4218568Going up some interesting snow terrain. False summit behindhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4218700.jpgP4218700Spine Peak. A "difficult" peak in Nugara snowshoeing book. The route looks to be a serious mountaineering ascent to us...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4218692-98.jpgP4218692-98Same as above, but using snow/beach mode instead of scenery mode.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4218718-26.jpgP4218718-26Another panorama of this area. Click to large sizehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4218667-69.jpgP4218667-69Nigel Peak poking through clouds2023-06-18T04:52:11+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/mount-saskatchewan-junior/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4218893.jpgP4218893Mount Sarbach seen from Rampart Creek Hostel! We were ready for the next dayhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4218886.jpgP4218886Vern just about to cross the thinning bridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4218885.jpgP4218885Back to the Sask River. Looking towards Cirrus Mountain. What a beautiful day!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4218881.jpgP4218881Ben descending in the trees. Snow was still rock hardhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4218879.jpgP4218879A view from the treeshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4218877.jpgP4218877We contouring around these slopes at treeline. This slope comes down from Big Bend's false summithttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4218871-72.jpgP4218871-72Another look towards East, before going down to treelinehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4218868-70.jpgP4218868-70Can't get rid of the views!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4218865.jpgP4218865Interesting peak, but I don't think it has a namehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4218858.jpgP4218858Looking back2023-06-18T04:51:42+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/jasper/bedson-ridge/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/bedson-ridge1.jpgBedson-RidgeBedson Ridge scramble routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/p9295974.jpgP9295974I like the colours in this photo. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/p9295971.jpgP9295971Back to the ATV trailhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/p9295969.jpgP9295969This is probably Brule Hill. Official name though, but I don't see the point bushwhacking up there...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/p9295968.jpgP9295968Down to the wide Supply Creekhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/p9295966.jpgP9295966The same step. It's easily bypassed on climber's lefthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/p9295965.jpgP9295965There's one optional step for funhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/p9295961.jpgP9295961Brule Lakehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/p9295957.jpgP9295957We picked a direct line down. Gorgeous scenery in the backgroundhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/p9295954.jpgP9295954As you can see, the terrain is easy around here. All lines work2023-06-18T04:51:06+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/mount-balfour/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/balfour2.jpgBalfourMt. Balfour ski ascent route via Scott Duncan Huthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/20140210_121106.jpg20140210_121106Here comes the only good section for skiing.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/20140210_123517.jpg20140210_123517Ben descending the waterfall in Niles Creekhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/20140210_114559.jpg20140210_114559Awkward spot for skiing...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/20140210_114610.jpg20140210_114610Crusty snow prevented us from enjoying this parthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/20140210_112338.jpg20140210_112338Ben carefully negotiating the steep treed sectionhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/20140210_105642.jpg20140210_105642Rob's grouphttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/20140210_111548.jpg20140210_111548The skiing was so terrible that even Eric took a fall herehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/20140210_101737.jpg20140210_101737Mount Nileshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/20140210_104548.jpg20140210_104548Side-sloping across Niles shoulder2023-06-18T04:50:30+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/south-rockies/mount-backus/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/mount-backus1.jpgMount-BackusMt. Backus snowshoeing ascent routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140406_054315.jpg20140406_054315Livingstone Range in the distancehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140406_054358.jpg20140406_054358Me on the summithttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140406_054300.jpg20140406_054300Looking down at another lowly hill. This one doesn't have a name.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140406_054310.jpg20140406_054310The prairiehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140406_054135.jpg20140406_054135Grant taking in the viewshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140406_054251.jpg20140406_054251Table Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140406_054214-1.jpg20140406_054214-1Summit panorama looking towards the prairie. Click to view large size.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140406_053959.jpg20140406_053959Hillcrest Mountain and Turtle Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140406_053858-1.jpg20140406_053858-1Summit panorama looking towards the mountains. Click to view large size.2023-06-18T04:49:50+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/mount-aylmer/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p70718421.jpgP7071842Devil's Head and Black Rock Mountain in the Ghost areahttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/aylmer-1.jpgAylmer-1Mount Aylmer scramble routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7071993.jpgP7071993Back to parking lot. There were like 100 tourists hanging around.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7071982-86-1.jpgP7071982-86-1Another photo of Inglismaldie and Lake Minniwankahttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7071981.jpgP7071981An unnamed peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7071962-64.jpgP7071962-64Back to the tourists' paradise. The sun was getting lower too.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7071941-43.jpgP7071941-43A panorama view of the Lake and Mt. Inglismaldie from a hill on the Trail.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7071925.jpgP7071925Almost back to Lake Minnewanka Trail.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7071923.jpgP7071923This is where I came from. I need to make to this end of the lake.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7071917.jpgP7071917Lake Minnewanka2023-06-18T04:49:18+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/ayesha-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ayesha1.jpgAyeshaAyesha Peak ski ascent route via Bow Huthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/20140430_060626-1.jpg20140430_060626-1The purple dots show our route up the gullies. Photo taken from Mt. Collie in the previous week.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/20140509_151721.jpg20140509_151721I'm sure this snow bridge won't last any longer... Ski season is almost over.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/20140509_133821.jpg20140509_133821Having the Bow Hut to ourselveshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/20140509_105637.jpg20140509_105637Skiing across the Wapta. Nearly white outhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/10294453_10152403506279586_4480717980018264554_n.jpg10294453_10152403506279586_4480717980018264554_nNow it's a white out...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/20140509_103730.jpg20140509_103730Ready to ski down the rest of the arete. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/20140509_095730.jpg20140509_095730Down climbing steep snow to bypass the rock step on the lower ridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/20140509_101223.jpg20140509_101223Vern descending the snow aretehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/20140509_094416.jpg20140509_094416Vern traversing back the south facing slopes. Good thing the sun was out.2023-06-18T04:48:39+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/mount-athabasca/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/athabasca1.jpgAthabascaMt. Athabasca climbing route via AA Colhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/img_3438.jpgimg_3438Descending the summit ridge. Photo by Ben Nhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/img_3350.jpgimg_3350Going up the steep slope towards AA col. Photo by Ben Nhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/img_3338.jpgimg_3338Apparently Ben has better camera. Photo by Ben Nhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/p7166209.jpgP7166209Wilcox looks big again. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/p7166203.jpgP7166203The Skyladder route up Andromedahttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/p7166202.jpgP7166202Zooming-in towards the upper icefalls on Athabasca Glacierhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/p7166191-98.jpgP7166191-98Panorama of Athabasca Glacierhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/p7166177-80.jpgP7166177-80A full view of AA Glacierhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/p7166175.jpgP7166175Same as above2023-06-18T04:48:03+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/association-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/association-peak-route2.jpgAssociation-Peak-RouteAssociation Peak scramble routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/association.jpgAssociationAssociation Peak scramble routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_7473.jpgimg_7473Me trying to downclimb into the notch, but the last few moves were too sketchy without rock shoes.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_7419.jpgimg_7419Me trying hard to get up this band, but it's too slipperyhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa206818.jpgPA206818Back to Yam's shoulder. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa206814.jpgPA206814Hopping the creekhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa206813.jpgPA206813Down to Old Fort Creek nowhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa206812.jpgPA206812Time to hike back. Note Yam's shoulder in the distance...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa206807.jpgPA206807Pretty grassy slope in late season conditionhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/pa206805.jpgPA206805Down to the quad road2023-12-06T06:26:31+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/mount-assiniboine/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/mount-assiniboine-via-bc-side1.jpgMount-Assiniboine-via-BC-sideMt. Assiniboine approach and ascent route via BC side and NE Ridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8140414.jpgP8140414Looking back at the "big Ass". Were we really up there a couple hours ago?!!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8140413.jpgP8140413And then into the woodshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8140412.jpgP8140412Eventually got back to Assiniboine Lakehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8140404.jpgP8140404Back to the glacierhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8140402.jpgP8140402Over the col, time to scree skihttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8140398.jpgP8140398The first part of the return was slogging back to Assiniboine/Strom colhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8140397.jpgP8140397Back to the hut, time to take another breakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8140389-94.jpgP8140389-94Panorama view from the lower N. Ridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/p8140388.jpgP8140388The Marshall2023-06-18T04:46:42+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/mount-andromeda/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/andromeda1.jpgAndromedaMt. Andromeda ski ascent route via South Ridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140414_0411151.jpg20140414_041115Castleguard Mountain looks tiny from here. Behind is the sexy Cockscomb Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140414_0411201.jpg20140414_041120The mighty Mt. Bryce...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140414_0410481.jpg20140414_041048Mt. King Edwardhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140414_0410071.jpg20140414_041007Mt. Sir Sandford way in the distance - highest peak in Selkirkshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140414_0410191.jpg20140414_041019Adament Mountain is another giant in the Selkirkshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140414_0331111.jpg20140414_033111Crevasses on Athabasca Glacier. You can also see our tracks.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140414_0331051.jpg20140414_033105North Twin and Twins Towerhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140414_0330121.jpg20140414_033012Mt. Alexandra is another easy 11,000er. Mmm, I mean technically easy, not physically... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20140414_0330401.jpg20140414_033040Mt. Columbia the giant2023-06-18T04:46:06+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/the-still/2023-06-17T05:30:48+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/mount-pershing/2023-06-16T06:03:47+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/tiffany-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/img_3027.jpgimg_3027https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/img_3031.jpgimg_3031https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/img_3012.jpgimg_30122023-06-14T17:45:59+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/big-craggy-peak-and-west-craggy/2023-06-14T16:54:10+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/castle-peak-pasayten-wa/2023-06-14T06:12:08+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/mcdonald-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/mcdonald.jpgmcdonald2023-06-10T01:22:57+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/sri-lanka/piduruthalagala/2023-06-09T18:36:43+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/sri-lanka/2023-06-09T17:25:24+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/nepal/shivapuri/2023-06-09T17:12:30+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/korea/baegun-san/2023-06-08T03:15:01+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/korea/2023-06-08T02:24:15+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/nepal/2023-06-02T15:39:44+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/florida/sugarloaf-mountain-tomato-hill-tucker-hill-kirk-hill-fl/2023-04-01T17:59:24+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/blanchard-hill-chuckanut-mountain/2023-03-31T20:07:53+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/mount-ann/2023-03-30T17:27:56+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/tumwater-mountain/2023-03-28T17:24:17+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/sugarloaf-mountain-chiricahuas-az/2023-03-28T06:19:42+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/dos-cabezas-peaks/2023-03-28T05:11:06+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/chiricahua-peak/2023-03-27T05:24:43+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/mount-graham/2023-03-25T05:48:36+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/california/miller-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20131027_162641.jpg20131027_162641Looking steeply down the north side towards I-10 corridorhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20131027_162526.jpg20131027_162526Me on the summit of Miller Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20131027_162300.jpg20131027_162300The desert floor by Palm Springs https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20131027_162251.jpg20131027_162251Toro Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20131027_162248.jpg20131027_162248This is a southern view showing the low clouds still lingering https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20131027_162243.jpg20131027_162243San Gorgonio Mountain on the horizonhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20131027_162240.jpg20131027_162240The broad east side of San Jacinto Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20131027_162237.jpg20131027_162237Jean Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20131027_162212-1.jpg20131027_162212-1Summit Panorama from Miller Peak. Click to view large size.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/20131027_162028.jpg20131027_162028Miller Peak from Miller/San Jacinto col2023-03-24T20:09:11+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/miller-peak-az/2023-03-24T20:06:52+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/newman-peak-az/2023-03-24T05:52:54+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/sugarloaf-mountain/2023-03-23T20:22:50+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/south-rockies/newman-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/newman-to-spionkop-to-avion.jpgNewman-to-Spionkop-to-AvionNewman - Spionkop - Avion traverse routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7021140-41.jpgP7021140-41The ridge goes to Mount Glendowan. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7021135-37.jpgP7021135-37Nice contrast between colours. Loaf Mountain at centerhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7021127-29.jpgP7021127-29Distant peaks towards Westhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7021122-26.jpgP7021122-26More distant big peaks in Glacier Parkhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7021120-21.jpgP7021120-21Mount Cleveland right of center. It's the highest in Glacier National Park.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7021102.jpgP7021102GR127513 aheadhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7021095.jpgP7021095Eric slogging up GR127513https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7020968-78.jpgP7020968-78Summit Panorama from Newman Peak. Click to view large size.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p7020967.jpgP7020967Newman Peak2023-03-23T20:22:17+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/alger-alp/2023-03-23T20:14:10+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/sasamat-hill/2023-03-15T18:39:38+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/memaloose-peak-and-nara-peak/2023-03-14T01:23:24+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/emancipation-mountain/2023-03-10T20:55:34+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/mazama-dome/2023-03-08T18:31:47+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/dog-mountain-hope/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/332541690_1817308811982183_6901093066700394881_n.jpg332541690_1817308811982183_6901093066700394881_n2023-03-06T20:57:27+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/north-shore-mountains/dog-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20120629_201930_lls.jpg20120629_201930_LLSAlmost completely dark. Time to head homehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20120629_201101_lls.jpg20120629_201101_LLSVancouver in early evening. Most of the lights are on alreadyhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20120629_200949_lls.jpg20120629_200949_LLSLooking towards Lion's Gate, Stanley Park and UBChttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20120629_200831_lls.jpg20120629_200831_LLSThat bridge is the famous Lions Gate Bridge (usually has 1 hour traffic delay in the 'wrong' time)https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20120629_200615_lls.jpg20120629_200615_LLSThis is the bridge that Highway 1 crosses from Vancouver to North Vancouverhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20120629_200451_lls.jpg20120629_200451_LLSDusk over the city of Vancouverhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20120629_192427.jpg20120629_192427The last bit of the sun rayshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20120629_192309.jpg20120629_192309A wider angle of the sunsethttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20120629_192123.jpg20120629_192123Sunset time! https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20120629_191514.jpg20120629_191514Another group was smart to bring stove for some hot drinks! 2023-03-06T17:54:37+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/ecuador/cerro-ilalo/2023-03-05T01:01:42+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/ecuador/sincholagua-la-marca-pululagua-crater/2023-03-04T18:38:53+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/jorgenson-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20170515_131240.jpg20170515_131240This picture shows that you want some good route-finding sense in this terrain.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20170515_123713.jpg20170515_123713Looking back towards the summit. Yes, Jorgenson Peak in the bag.. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20170515_122509.jpg20170515_122509Down-climbing near the crux. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20170515_120106.jpg20170515_120106Ogilvie Peak will be my next objective. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20170515_120055.jpg20170515_120055A zoomed-in view towards the municipality of Hopehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20170515_120040.jpg20170515_120040A wider view at Fraser Valley and Hope. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20170515_115752.jpg20170515_115752A review shot of the summit block. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20170515_115048.jpg20170515_115048Me on the summit of Jorgenson Peak. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20170515_114822.jpg20170515_114822A wider shot looking north. Squeah Mountain on right.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20170515_114727.jpg20170515_114727Ogilvie Peak is looking very small now, in foreground. 2023-03-02T20:54:57+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/gloria-peak-chilliwack/2023-03-02T20:07:25+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/gold-mountain-kitsap-peninsula/2023-02-28T19:54:54+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/mount-walker/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/img_0237-1.jpgimg_0237-1https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/img_0234-1.jpgimg_0234-1https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/img_0227-1.jpgimg_0227-12023-02-27T21:39:36+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/amabilis-mountain/2023-02-25T04:20:06+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/mount-anderson-vancouver-island/2023-02-22T06:38:18+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/hawaii/mauna-kea/2023-02-21T08:13:56+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/hawaii/kaumu-o-kaleihoohie/2023-02-19T07:18:04+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/hawaii/hualalai/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/img_8299.jpgimg_82992023-02-18T20:48:08+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/hawaii/2023-02-17T07:10:52+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sunshine-coast/mount-daniel-pender-hill-and-harbour-peak/2023-02-09T20:35:02+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/rattlesnake-mountain/2023-02-07T06:31:11+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/burlington-hill/2023-02-06T21:02:42+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/mexico/el-toro-potrero-chico/2023-02-06T20:05:50+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/mexico/cerro-la-aguja-chiquita/2023-02-06T04:07:39+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/mexico/cerro-la-aguja-grande/2023-02-05T05:50:34+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/mexico/volcan-iztaccihuatl/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_8556.jpgimg_8556The descent seemed to drag on forever... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_8553.jpgimg_8553One last look at Popocatepetl https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_8707.jpgimg_8707From the "second saddle" looking down. This part is very steep. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_8549.jpgimg_8549Traversing high above the desert floor. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_8546.jpgimg_8546Plodding downwards from the "third saddle" https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_8545.jpgimg_8545Another photo looking eastwards showing some afternoon clouds https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_8541.jpgimg_8541Plodding back towards the "third saddle" https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_8536.jpgimg_8536I was surprised to see some major cliff bands on this volcanohttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_8535.jpgimg_8535One of the many cols that we passed on descent https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/img_8532.jpgimg_8532Looking back at the long ass scree/scramble slog onto "the knee"2023-02-04T20:10:21+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/mexico/picachos-el-fraile-el-sapo/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/img_6450.jpgimg_64502023-02-03T20:51:27+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/ecuador/volcan-tungurahua/2023-01-25T22:08:58+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/mount-taylor/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/img_5564.jpgimg_55642023-01-24T18:52:05+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/silo-mountain-and-haystack-mountain/2023-01-22T06:03:32+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/cassiope-peak/2023-01-20T21:02:41+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/silver-peak-i-90/2023-01-20T21:02:17+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/black-mountain-sumas-wa/2023-01-20T21:01:48+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/ecuador/cerro-negro/2023-01-20T07:44:34+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/ecuador/fuya-fuya/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/img_2445-1.jpgimg_2445-12023-01-19T20:33:10+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/ecuador/volcan-imbabura/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/image.pngimage2023-01-18T21:24:41+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/ecuador/cerro-cusin/2023-01-17T21:25:05+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/ecuador/volcan-chimborazo/2023-01-17T07:20:30+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/ecuador/volcan-pasochoa/2023-01-15T01:42:12+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/ecuador/volcan-cayambe/2023-01-12T21:40:40+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/ecuador/rucu-pichincha/2023-01-12T18:29:23+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/ecuador/volcan-guagua-pichincha/2023-01-11T21:46:16+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/silver-peak/2023-01-11T19:35:06+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/ecuador/cerro-atacazo/2023-01-09T22:44:06+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/ecuador/2023-01-07T19:56:33+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/florida/2023-01-07T18:20:23+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/mount-brice/2023-01-07T17:39:41+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/mount-hooker/2022-12-06T18:47:50+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/eddys-mountain/2022-12-02T04:54:06+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/st-nicolas-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4086709.jpgP4086709Vulture Peak from the exit of glacier. Didn't take photos from the rest of the de-proach since my camera was running out of space.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4086706.jpgP4086706Time to walk down the head-wallhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4086705.jpgP4086705More of St. Nick from the descenthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4086702.jpgP4086702Now I got you!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4086699.jpgP4086699Oh yeah baby.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4086693.jpgP4086693An obligatory shot of Hectorhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/untitled_panorama2.jpgUntitled_Panorama2Another wide shot of Wapta Icefieldhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4086690.jpgP4086690More of my tracks.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4086688.jpgP4086688The summit block, with my tracks nowhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/p4086685.jpgP4086685Looking back towards Olive2022-12-01T05:42:03+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/mount-jeffrey/2022-11-30T04:33:49+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/mount-landale/2022-11-29T06:52:06+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/keyhole-hotsprings/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/img_9732.jpgIMG_9732Almost done. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/img_9729.jpgIMG_9729Back onto easier terrain... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/img_9725.jpgIMG_9725To not risk crossing a questionable snow bridge we found a "mixed bypass"... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/img_9722.jpgIMG_9722A look down into Lillooet River. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/img_9720.jpgIMG_9720The steep up-climb at the beginning of the return hikehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/img_9709.jpgIMG_9709This is looking further up the Lillooet River from the hot springshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/img_9702.jpgIMG_9702We made it! Bathing in Keyhole Hot Springs https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/img_9698.jpgIMG_9698I belayed Julia down the last 10 meters of down-climb https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/img_9683.jpgIMG_9683Carefully descending a steep zone near the end https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/img_9679.jpgIMG_9679Another photo of Lillooet River. The trail had a lot of up-and-downs 2022-11-29T04:44:50+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/butler-hill/2022-11-26T07:53:15+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/okanagan/mount-martin/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/img_9003.jpgimg_90032022-11-26T07:31:18+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/excelsior-peak/2022-11-21T05:57:38+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/chronological-list/2011-archive/2022-11-20T06:49:31+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/chronological-list/2012-archive/2022-11-20T06:48:32+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/chronological-list/2013-archive/2022-11-20T06:46:57+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/chronological-list/2014-archive/2022-11-20T06:45:12+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/chronological-list/2015-archive/2022-11-20T06:43:45+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/chronological-list/2016-archive/2022-11-20T06:42:31+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/chronological-list/2019-archive/2022-11-20T06:40:36+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/chronological-list/2017-archive/2022-11-20T06:39:11+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/chronological-list/2018-archive/2022-11-20T06:37:28+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/chronological-list/2021-archive/2022-11-20T06:23:12+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/belcarra-mountain/2022-11-19T05:06:10+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/sehome-hill/2022-11-17T19:28:18+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/mount-ichor/2022-11-16T06:53:46+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/oyster-dome/2022-11-11T06:08:45+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/cougar-mountain-issaquah-wa/2022-11-08T01:55:48+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/mount-teneriffe/2022-10-31T04:19:34+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/richards-mountain-lummi-island/2022-10-27T18:45:07+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/lummi-peak/2022-10-27T05:18:56+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/north-twin-sister/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/north-twin-sister1.jpgNorth-Twin-SisterNorth Twin Sister scramble routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120519_174829.jpg20120519_174829One last look at our objectivehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120519_172401.jpg20120519_172401Looking down the remaining sections of the W. Ridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120519_172329.jpg20120519_172329The summit block of South Twin. Route goes up the RHS ridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120519_172142.jpg20120519_172142Looking back up North Twinhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120519_170406.jpg20120519_170406A look at the South Twin. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120519_170352.jpg20120519_170352Stemminghttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120519_164846.jpg20120519_164846Simon posing on the characteristic pinnaclehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120519_162832.jpg20120519_162832More down-climbinghttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120519_162315.jpg20120519_162315Here's the down-sloping ledge traverse to bypass the upper wall2022-10-27T04:32:17+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/lilwat-mountain/2022-10-26T02:16:43+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/jackman-peak/2022-10-25T05:38:27+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/the-triad/2022-10-23T04:27:07+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/shulaps-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/shulaps.jpgshulaps2022-10-17T20:14:48+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/monashee-mountains/mount-severide/2022-10-15T04:28:41+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/monashee-mountains/north-pinnacle-the-pinnacles/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/img_5458.jpgimg_54582022-10-14T07:02:55+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/burgundy-spire/2022-10-12T00:56:11+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/the-triplets/2022-10-07T21:08:03+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/johannesburg-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/img_8863.jpgimg_8863https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/img_8842.jpgimg_8842https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/img_8811.jpgimg_8811https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/img_8777.jpgimg_8777https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/img_8774.jpgimg_8774https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/img_8730.jpgimg_8730https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/img_8621.jpgimg_8621https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/johannesburg.jpgjohannesburg2022-10-07T19:02:28+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/buckner-mountain/2022-10-06T17:55:38+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/horseshoe-peak/2022-10-06T17:52:13+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/lick-of-flame/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/img_3614.jpgimg_36142022-10-04T06:08:47+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/the-needles-big-methow-needle/2022-09-29T07:13:22+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/mount-urquhart/2022-09-28T21:32:24+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/cutthroat-peak-south-buttress/2022-09-24T05:24:16+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/mount-rexford/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/20130327_151553.jpg20130327_151553Into the bowl now, looking at S. Nesakwatch Spirehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/20130327_150753.jpg20130327_150753Now done the hard stuffs, looking backhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/20130327_145422.jpg20130327_145422Don't think this part is easy. It's not and a few spots are very exposed. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/20130327_145420.jpg20130327_145420Typical, typical... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/20130327_145206.jpg20130327_145206Continuing down the lower W. Ridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/20130327_145201.jpg20130327_145201The ugly krummholz sectionhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/20130327_143443.jpg20130327_143443The views were great though. This is N. Nesakwatch Spire, my next objectivehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/20130327_143439.jpg20130327_143439Down-climbing the initial steep stuffs to get into a "saddle". Note the tatshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/20130327_142505.jpg20130327_142505Another look at the false summit towerhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/20130327_142502.jpg20130327_142502This is an unnamed peak south of Mt. Rexford2022-09-24T02:24:32+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/north-nesakwatch-spire/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/20130327_195827.jpg20130327_195827The final kilometer of road walk.. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/20130327_194814.jpg20130327_194814Looking back up at the Illusion Peakshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/20130327_194646.jpg20130327_194646Down to the overgrown spur road nowhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/20130327_193912.jpg20130327_193912Neat afternoon colourshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/20130327_192735.jpg20130327_192735Entering the lower secondary growth foresthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/20130327_190524.jpg20130327_190524Back across the creekhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/20130327_181114.jpg20130327_181114The trail descends parallel this steep wallhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/20130327_180338.jpg20130327_180338Now it's starting to drizzle... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/20130327_172156.jpg20130327_172156Weather was moving in. Time to hurry up... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/20130327_165455.jpg20130327_165455Back to the crux now. 2022-09-24T02:22:17+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/south-nesakwatch-spire/2022-09-23T20:58:57+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/porcupine-peak-wa/2022-09-22T18:48:11+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/stawamus-chief/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_0948.jpgimg_0948https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_0867.jpgimg_0867https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/dscn5367.jpgDSCN5367There're lots of big striations on the granite rocks. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/dscn5371.jpgDSCN5371Another shot of the light. The first summit is in foreground. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/dscn5366.jpgDSCN5366Interesting clouds and lighting effecthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/dscn5363.jpgDSCN5363Garibaldi and Atwell briefly showed uphttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/dscn5362.jpgDSCN5362As you can see, the Chief is a small peak in this area. Its summit is even below the snowline https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/dscn5354.jpgDSCN5354Looking towards another direction.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/dscn5352.jpgDSCN5352Me with Howe Sound behindhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/dscn5345.jpgDSCN5345Me on the summit2022-09-16T01:05:04+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/prusik-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_1435.jpgIMG_1435Winnie showed me her paint of Prusik Peak in Oct. 20202022-09-14T01:31:37+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/redoubt-mountain-ab/2022-09-13T00:03:47+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/sherpa-peak-west-ridge/2022-09-12T18:10:42+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/mount-wintour/2022-09-10T06:01:10+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/mount-robertson/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_0023.jpgimg_00232022-09-09T18:52:58+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/mount-sloan/2022-09-04T06:15:33+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/white-chuck-mountain/2022-09-01T18:02:34+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/triple-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img_7758.jpgimg_7758https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img_7759.jpgimg_7759https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img_7756.jpgimg_7756https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img_6984.jpgIMG_6984Matt on the summit of Triple Peak2022-08-31T00:56:58+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/warden-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img_7766.jpgimg_7766https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img_7763.jpgimg_7763https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img_7767.jpgimg_77672022-08-30T18:33:45+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/bunker-hill-pasayten-wa/2022-08-30T18:08:41+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/church-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/20130518_172941.jpg20130518_172941Almost done, looking back. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/20130518_172935.jpg20130518_172935Nice and open ridge walk. This was only 10 minutes from the parking lot. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/20130518_172740.jpg20130518_172740Descending the trail/ATV roadhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/20130518_171209.jpg20130518_171209Chilliwack Valley from the summit of "Windy Knob"https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/20130518_170751.jpg20130518_170751Mt. McGuire https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/20130518_170704.jpg20130518_170704Ahead is the short diversion to tag "Windy Knob"https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/20130518_164932.jpg20130518_164932The typical forest travelhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/20130518_164323.jpg20130518_164323Looking back at Church Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/20130518_163918.jpg20130518_163918Plodding up the trail to intersect the N. Ridge of "Old Baldy"https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/20130518_162726.jpg20130518_162726Fraser Valley again2022-08-30T16:43:22+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/kaleetan-peak/2022-08-28T18:04:50+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/gunn-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img_6742.jpgimg_67422022-08-22T18:22:16+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/chancellor-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/20220818_162627.jpg20220818_162627https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/20220818_132933.jpg20220818_132933https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/20220818_125440.jpg20220818_125440https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/20220818_121900.jpg20220818_121900https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/20220818_105356.jpg20220818_105356https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/20220818_101504.jpg20220818_101504https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/20220818_092245.jpg20220818_0922452022-08-21T02:51:37+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/mount-stephen/2022-08-20T05:02:49+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/tomyhoi-peak/2022-08-16T04:31:16+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/argonaut-peak/2022-08-16T01:02:33+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/copper-peak-holden-wa/2022-08-14T00:17:30+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/martin-peak-holden-wa/2022-08-10T17:21:39+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/bonanza-peak-wa/2022-08-10T04:22:22+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/peru/cerro-khapia/2022-08-05T00:45:39+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/peru/isla-taquile-mulsina-pata/2022-08-04T17:49:07+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/peru/isla-amantani-pachamama-pachatata/2022-08-04T16:26:32+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/peru/cerro-azoguini-puno-peru/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/azoguini.jpgazoguinihttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/image.pngimageCerro Azoguini hike above Puno. GPX DL2022-08-04T00:09:28+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/hinkhouse-peak/2022-08-04T00:08:05+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/mount-triumph/2022-08-03T20:42:21+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/peru/nevado-mateo/2022-08-03T18:21:34+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/peru/cerro-cachijirca/2022-08-03T04:13:23+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/thornton-peak/2022-08-03T00:40:21+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/mount-fury-east-west/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/img_4458.jpgimg_4458https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/img_4422.jpgimg_4422https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/img_4399.jpgimg_4399https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/img_4385.jpgimg_4385https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/img_4362.jpgimg_4362https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/img_4356.jpgimg_4356https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/img_4347.jpgimg_4347https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/img_4332.jpgimg_4332https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/img_4340.jpgimg_43402022-07-30T02:09:10+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/luna-peak/2022-07-29T17:24:50+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/kangaroo-temple/2022-07-28T21:54:20+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/helen-buttes/2022-07-21T19:49:48+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/peru/nevado-yanapaccha/2022-07-21T15:40:47+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/peru/nevado-alpamayo/2022-07-19T23:56:23+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/peru/2022-07-19T02:46:48+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/abernathy-peak/2022-06-21T18:39:35+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/mount-adams/2022-06-17T17:38:44+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/hidden-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191103_img_0794.jpg20191103_IMG_0794Down-scrambling the 3rd class chimney https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191103_img_0792.jpg20191103_IMG_0792Into the forest now. No more snow https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191103_img_0784.jpg20191103_IMG_0784This is the typical condition we had to deal with at treeline zonehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191103_img_0773.jpg20191103_IMG_0773Vlad plodding towards the treeline zone https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191103_img_0766.jpg20191103_IMG_0766Callaghan Lake in foreground with Rainbow Mtn. behindhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191103_img_0760.jpg20191103_IMG_0760The long and broad SE Ridge descent ahead https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191103_img_0758.jpg20191103_IMG_0758Back onto the SE Ridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191103_img_0754.jpg20191103_IMG_0754After finishing the sketchy boulder field minesite https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191103_img_0744.jpg20191103_IMG_0744The typical terrain and the typical view. Not much to comment https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191103_img_0743.jpg20191103_IMG_0743Heading down into the south side bowl 2022-06-13T19:36:50+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sunshine-coast/burts-bluff/2022-06-13T04:26:07+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sunshine-coast/mount-artaban/2022-06-12T22:43:22+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/rhododendron-mountain/2022-06-11T03:07:02+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/gwendoline-peak/2022-06-10T19:47:41+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/lookout-mountain-twisp-wa/2022-06-06T05:31:06+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/gilbert-mountain/2022-06-06T04:59:46+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/sheep-mountain-pasayten-wa/2022-06-02T20:26:02+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/haner-whacme-mountain/2022-05-30T17:16:49+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/yalakom-mountain/2022-05-29T23:04:25+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/red-mountain-sumas-wa/2022-05-26T18:46:19+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/ashes-peak/2022-05-25T22:51:30+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/the-flames-fire-spires/2022-05-25T21:36:10+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/mount-glendinning/2022-05-25T18:44:44+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/ember-mountain/2022-05-25T05:33:51+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/saddle-peak-fraser-canyon/2022-05-18T04:25:34+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/texas/el-capitan-texas/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131021_170647.jpg20131021_170647The typical western Texas scenery. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131021_161559.jpg20131021_161559A review shot of El Capitan and Guadalupe Peak.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131021_152318.jpg20131021_152318Another look at the dry creek and Pine Springs. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131021_152313.jpg20131021_152313The lower portion of this trail, with Mt. Hunter behind. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131021_150332.jpg20131021_150332Pine Springs is somewhere down by that dry creek. There's literally nothing. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131021_145512.jpg20131021_145512Just another picture to show the trail. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131021_144539.jpg20131021_144539As much as the trail goes. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131021_144021.jpg20131021_144021Mt. Hunter starts to look big again. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131021_143347.jpg20131021_143347Down, down, down... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131021_142659.jpg20131021_142659Another look at this bridge. 2022-05-16T21:54:28+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/banff/eagle-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/eagle.jpgEagleEagle Mountain ski/snowshoe ascent routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/pc123635.jpgPC123635https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/pc123630.jpgPC123630https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/pc123628.jpgPC123628https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/pc123625.jpgPC123625https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/pc123618.jpgPC123618https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/pc123600-03-2.jpgPC123600-03-2https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/pc123597-99.jpgPC123597-99https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/pc123575.jpgPC123575https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/pc123572.jpgPC1235722022-05-16T21:52:26+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/blanca-peak/2022-05-16T21:51:10+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/bear-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4885.jpgIMG_4885Almost running out of snow. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4880.jpgIMG_4880As typical as it gets... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4877.jpgIMG_4877Continuing plunging down on the thin (and slushy) snowhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4875.jpgIMG_4875This roughly where we decided to remove snowshoeshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4873.jpgIMG_4873There are some open areas but not a lot of views tbh. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4871.jpgIMG_4871Henry plunging down using our own tracks https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4870.jpgIMG_4870Good view of Harrison Lake. You can also see Harrison River on the left sidehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4866.jpgIMG_4866Plod, plod and plod... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4864.jpgIMG_4864Back to the logging road plod. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4861.jpgIMG_4861Heading down. This is the section in mature forest2022-05-16T21:50:05+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/north-shore-mountains/black-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121122_124559.jpg20121122_124559Having lots of fun plunging down the slushy snowhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121122_124146.jpg20121122_124146Time to go home! https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121122_122144.jpg20121122_122144A wider view of Lions Bay and some of the North Shore Mountains. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121122_122132.jpg20121122_122132A zoomed-in view of Lions Bayhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121122_122115.jpg20121122_122115Mt. Wrottesley on the horizon with some remote peaks behindhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121122_122106.jpg20121122_122106Brunswick Mountain is the highest in North Shore - high on my "list". https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121122_122102.jpg20121122_122102The classic view of the Lions. The route I took on E. Lion looks almost vertical from here! https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121122_121908.jpg20121122_121908Going up the north summit, looking back.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121122_121527.jpg20121122_121527This is the pond (still frozen) between the twin summitshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20121122_121135.jpg20121122_121135Looking down into the Howe Sound2022-05-16T21:49:09+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/blue-mountain-baker/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20120824_145304.jpg20120824_145304The boring hikehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20120824_144514.jpg20120824_144514The only view of Mt. Baker that we gothttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20120824_144420.jpg20120824_144420One last look at North Twinhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20120824_144238.jpg20120824_144238Time to go home...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20120824_143606.jpg20120824_143606Me near the summit of Blue Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20120824_142335.jpg20120824_142335Here's just before we left the main road up the secondary branchhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20120824_135640.jpg20120824_135640The road walk continues https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20120824_133748.jpg20120824_133748Lyman Hill dominates the view looking south. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20120824_133744.jpg20120824_133744Looking back along the roadhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20120824_130735.jpg20120824_130735The not-so-often ascended Hayden Peak (L) with Little Sister behind (R)2022-05-16T21:48:38+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/sentinel-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20131022_205031.jpg20131022_205031Hiking down on the painted "A"https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20131022_204631.jpg20131022_204631The dusk horizon https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20131022_204359.jpg20131022_204359In the far distance could see Baboquivari Peak, one of the hardest major summits in AZhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20131022_204318.jpg20131022_204318Mt. Wrightson dominates the skyline looking south https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20131022_204217.jpg20131022_204217Another look towards Mica Mountain and Rincon Peak, with city of Tucson in fronthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20131022_203943.jpg20131022_203943The rugged Santa Catalina Mountains with Mt. Lemmon being the highest https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20131022_203454.jpg20131022_203454Mica Mountain to the easthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20131022_203409.jpg20131022_203409This is Cat Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20131022_203226.jpg20131022_203226A zoomed-in view towards Agua Caliente Hill https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20131022_203158.jpg20131022_203158Another hiker enjoying the view2022-05-16T21:47:27+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/okanagan/elephant-hill-ashcroft/2022-05-16T04:55:25+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/mount-birch/2022-05-16T04:03:06+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/mary-hill/2022-05-12T07:40:45+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/2022-05-12T02:13:35+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/big-pine-mountain-and-little-pine-mountain/2022-05-09T07:05:34+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/sumas-mountain-wa/2022-05-08T02:36:18+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/fig-peak/2022-05-04T05:03:45+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/mount-lamont/2022-05-02T05:48:38+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sunshine-coast/apodaca-peak/2022-05-01T05:19:52+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/little-ring/2022-04-26T07:14:50+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/conscience-peak/2022-04-25T05:59:04+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/kansas/mount-sunflower-kansas-high-point/2022-04-22T05:20:40+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/kansas/2022-04-22T04:56:37+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/colorado/two-buttes-co/2022-04-22T03:03:28+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/oklahoma/black-mesa-oklahoma-high-point/2022-04-21T20:33:00+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/oklahoma/2022-04-21T19:48:59+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/new-mexico/sandia-crest/2022-04-21T18:15:25+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/new-mexico/manzano-peak/2022-04-21T06:17:37+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/new-mexico/timber-mountain/2022-04-20T21:05:32+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/new-mexico/organ-needle/2022-04-20T06:08:20+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/torah-peak/2022-04-20T00:21:30+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/famine-peak/2022-04-19T18:45:01+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/longspur-peak/2022-04-19T07:52:13+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/appa-peak/2022-04-18T05:51:13+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/jasper/indian-ridge/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p1266042.jpgP1266042Looking back at Terminal Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p1266041.jpgP1266041The long long return starts herehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p12660401.jpgP1266040Unnamed peak in Trident Rangehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p1266036.jpgP1266036Marmot Mountain, the first objective of this dayhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p1266011.jpgP1266011The summit cairnhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p1266028.jpgP1266028Taking a break on the summithttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p1265949-51.jpgP1265949-51Almost made to the ridge crest.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p1266040.jpgP1266040https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p1266032.jpgP1266032https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/p1266014.jpgP12660142022-04-14T06:39:10+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/texas/indian-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20131022_104741.jpg20131022_104741This is looking at South Franklin Mountain from partway down. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20131022_104555.jpg20131022_104555Starting to go down now. Looking at Anthonys Nose. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20131022_104123.jpg20131022_104123Me on the summit of Indian Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20131022_103948.jpg20131022_103948Another look at North Franklin Mountain. The route comes from right. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20131022_103944.jpg20131022_103944A wide view of North Franklin Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20131022_103931.jpg20131022_103931An interesting outlier on North Franklin Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20131022_103921.jpg20131022_103921This is zooming-in looking south into the city of Juarez, Mexicohttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20131022_103913.jpg20131022_103913Looking over an outlier towards the area NE of El Pasohttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20131022_103852.jpg20131022_103852Anthonys Nose to the north which is the second highest in Franklin Mtns.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20131022_103836.jpg20131022_103836South Franklin Mountain and other peaks in this range. 2022-04-14T06:38:36+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/new-mexico/sierra-blanca-peak-nm/2022-04-14T06:09:25+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/new-mexico/2022-04-14T04:53:40+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/colorado/twin-sisters-peaks-co/2022-04-13T22:02:57+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/colorado/lily-mountain/2022-04-13T19:06:00+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/colorado/pikes-peak/2022-04-13T06:54:22+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/colorado/mount-elbert/2022-04-12T22:28:44+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/colorado/papoose-mountain/2022-04-11T20:29:25+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/colorado/chief-mountain-co/2022-04-11T20:11:37+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/colorado/2022-04-11T19:15:04+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/montana/chief-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/20120323_212916.jpg20120323_212916Evening glow on Chief Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/20120323_204423.jpg20120323_204423Lower down in the foresthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/20120323_204415.jpg20120323_204415Very glad to have a trail/path through this section of the bush...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/20120323_203032.jpg20120323_203032Back to those tarnshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/20120323_202449.jpg20120323_202449The prairie in the distancehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/20120323_201431.jpg20120323_201431Our objective looming abovehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/20120323_194756.jpg20120323_194756The grassy bench traverse. We had to contour around for quite a wayshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/20120323_194751.jpg20120323_194751Squaw Mountain looks fairly intimidating from all angleshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/20120323_194748.jpg20120323_194748Traversing on this grassy benchhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/20120323_193540.jpg20120323_193540Looking back at the cliffs2022-04-11T19:14:37+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/utah/west-mountain-peak/2022-04-11T18:51:18+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sunshine-coast/mount-killam/2022-04-11T06:06:01+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/nevada/grapevine-peak/2022-04-09T06:09:19+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/anderson-mountain-wa/2022-04-08T17:15:42+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/mexico/cerro-botella-azul/2022-04-08T05:16:58+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/mexico/picacho-del-diablo/2022-04-07T07:09:13+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/mexico/sierra-la-laguna-high-point/2022-04-06T03:17:02+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/international/mexico/volcan-las-tres-virgenes/2022-04-05T23:30:42+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/squak-mountain/2022-04-05T01:03:06+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/pogo-mountain/2022-03-11T22:43:31+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/gregory-peak-big-miracle-mountain/2022-03-08T23:56:34+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/north-shore-mountains/hat-mountain/2022-02-27T01:59:53+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/rolley-peak-mission/2022-02-24T18:20:53+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/spectrum-peak/2022-02-23T02:23:59+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/wilson-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131019_141432.jpg20131019_141432Almost done. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131019_134818.jpg20131019_134818Into the woods (and the much needed shades). https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131019_132139.jpg20131019_132139Partway down the switchbacks, looking up. It's very hot now. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131019_132137.jpg20131019_132137It's those spires again. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131019_125321.jpg20131019_125321Oak Creek Canyon from partway down towards the First Bench.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131019_125108.jpg20131019_125108Time to head down. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131019_122139.jpg20131019_122139The true summit requires a few scrambling moves. Nothing difficult. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131019_122033.jpg20131019_122033Me on the summit of Wilson Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131019_121518.jpg20131019_121518Another wide shot from the summit showing that it's indeed the highest peak out there.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131019_121449.jpg20131019_121449Another view showing the Oak Creek Canyon2022-02-21T05:43:29+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/utah/lady-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4792.jpgIMG_4792Bridge crossing Virgin River. The end.. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4783.jpgIMG_4783Mt. Majestic and Cathedral Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4781.jpgIMG_4781Another shot of the Zion Canyon floor. Note the tourism development https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4777.jpgIMG_4777This is Jake rapping off the "chimney crux". https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/0102181244_hdr.jpg0102181244_HDRMe rapping off the "chimney crux". Photo by Jake R.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4773.jpgIMG_4773Traversing a long ways along this bench. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4772.jpgIMG_4772It's hard to stop taking picture of the canyon. The Great White Throne behindhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4771.jpgIMG_4771Jake rappelling off the "dihedral crux"https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/0102181228a_hdr.jpg0102181228a_HDRMe rappelling off the "dihedral crux". Photo by Jake R.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/0102181202_hdr.jpg0102181202_HDRMe continuing down the no-fall zones. Still in "upper chutes". Photo by Jake R.2022-02-21T05:42:47+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/nevada/mount-wilson-2/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4334.jpgIMG_4334One last picture showing Bridge Mtn. and a lone Joshua Treehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4331.jpgIMG_4331Back onto the floor of Mojave Desert and now looking back at Rainbow Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4321.jpgIMG_4321Back into the lower canyon we still had lots of boulder hopping to do. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/1230171230.jpg1230171230This part is pretty awkward. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/1230171149.jpg1230171149Me down-climbing one of the trickier sections. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4317.jpgIMG_4317Jake continuing down the slabby crux. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4316.jpgIMG_4316Jake leading down the slabby crux. This is a very slippery stretch. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4308.jpgIMG_4308Down-climbing the main crux using this batman ropehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4303.jpgIMG_4303This is the uppermost section of the canyon. Lots of slab walking https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/img_4302.jpgIMG_4302A bit bushy at places as we didn't pay enough attention to the route. 2022-02-21T05:42:21+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/california/mount-diablo-ca/2022-02-21T03:32:48+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/california/copernicus-peak/2022-02-20T23:17:01+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/california/loma-prieta/2022-02-20T06:16:42+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/california/ord-mountain/2022-02-20T02:11:03+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/california/clark-mountain-ca/2022-02-20T00:45:34+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/nevada/mica-peak-nv/2022-02-19T19:36:10+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/nevada/jumbo-peak-nv/2022-02-19T05:32:38+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/california/pyramid-peak-ca/2022-02-18T18:58:54+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/california/avawatz-peak/2022-02-18T17:49:01+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/canoe-peak-vancouver-island/2022-02-17T23:12:51+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/havasuper-peak/2022-02-14T05:51:30+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/south-dome-lake-havasu/2022-02-14T04:46:22+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/mount-mcnair/2022-02-13T07:01:13+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/gold-dome-az/2022-02-12T05:20:29+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/shangri-la-butte/2022-02-10T23:05:09+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/montana/haystack-butte/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/20120324_172209.jpg20120324_172209One last look along the Highline Trailhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/20120324_172117.jpg20120324_172117Sections are "exposed". https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/20120324_164910.jpg20120324_164910Sections of this trail goes into the foresthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/20120324_164144.jpg20120324_164144Another view of Bishop's Cap and the Garden Wallhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/20120324_164140.jpg20120324_164140Hiking back along the trailhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/20120324_164138.jpg20120324_164138Looking back at the lowly Butte from Highline Trailhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/20120324_160800.jpg20120324_160800Hiking back across this grassy ledgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/20120324_155420.jpg20120324_155420Me on the summit of Haystack Buttehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/20120324_155038.jpg20120324_155038Mike approaching the summit https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/20120324_155019.jpg20120324_155019Reynolds Mountain will be my next objective2022-02-10T21:47:12+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/haystack-peak-az/2022-02-10T21:45:20+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/ibex-peak-az/2022-02-10T19:18:03+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/tank-mountains-high-point/2022-02-10T06:37:02+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/north-shore-mountains/the-needles/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/20130919_195143.jpg20130919_195143Back to the road stretch. Almost done. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/20130919_192715.jpg20130919_192715Down, down, down... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/20130919_192711.jpg20130919_192711Onto dry groundhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/20130919_191153.jpg20130919_191153The west coast canopy https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/20130919_185446.jpg20130919_185446The typical descent down Lynn Ridge Trailhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/20130919_182041.jpg20130919_182041Taking another break. We were running low on water now. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/20130919_175851.jpg20130919_175851Lots of forested view from here onwards https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/20130919_175845.jpg20130919_175845Back to the south side of Lynn Peak now. This is looking at Mt. Seymourhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/20130919_174846.jpg20130919_174846One of the many, many uphill slogs along the Lynn Ridge traversehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/20130919_173419.jpg20130919_173419Snowshoeing down slushy snow wasn't very fun on the steeps 2022-02-09T22:30:52+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/courthouse-mountain/2022-02-09T21:48:55+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/friday-mountain/2022-02-09T05:16:55+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/mount-wood/2022-02-07T23:09:20+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/mount-tzouhalem/2022-02-07T22:31:34+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/maple-mountain/2022-02-07T19:11:21+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/big-sicker-mountain/2022-02-07T06:54:08+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/mount-prevost/2022-02-07T05:54:38+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/elephant-back-mountain/2022-02-07T00:28:47+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/dos-picachos/2022-02-06T23:37:20+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/california/big-maria-mountains-high-point/2022-02-04T19:24:31+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/california/peak-2732-little-maria-mountains/2022-02-04T18:12:12+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/signal-peak-az/2022-02-03T19:26:49+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/ten-ewe-mountain/2022-02-03T18:32:47+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/clifty-benchmark/2022-02-03T07:01:28+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sunshine-coast/mount-liddell-gambier-peak/2022-02-02T19:37:57+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/thumb-peak-az/2022-02-02T05:34:56+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/red-bluff-mountain-az/2022-01-31T23:13:11+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/california/ogilby-hills/2022-01-31T19:02:38+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/ladner-mountain/2022-01-31T18:00:54+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/california/pasadena-mountain/2022-01-29T05:50:41+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/north-shore-mountains/mount-elsay/2022-01-28T22:17:06+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/california/pilot-knob-ca/2022-01-27T06:32:17+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/hornet-peak/2022-01-26T22:12:15+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/mount-potter/2022-01-24T19:06:47+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/california/little-picacho-benchmark/2022-01-21T22:02:37+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/picacho-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131020_123918.jpg20131020_123918Almost done. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131020_123650.jpg20131020_123650Saguaros https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131020_123110.jpg20131020_123110The typical conditions on this trail. Steep, loose and rockyhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131020_122540.jpg20131020_122540Back to the "front side" nowhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131020_121314.jpg20131020_121314Another group slowly making their way down this slabby sectionhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131020_121153.jpg20131020_121153Grunting back up towards the "high shoulder" now. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131020_115801.jpg20131020_115801The traverse across the "backside" now catching some sunlight. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131020_114947.jpg20131020_114947Morning carefully descending this step. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131020_114809.jpg20131020_114809Back to that bridge section. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20131020_114541.jpg20131020_114541Looking back towards the summit. 2022-01-21T20:15:12+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/california/picacho-peak-ca/2022-01-21T20:13:22+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/arizona/needles-eye-az/2022-01-20T22:24:07+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/california/mccoy-peak/2022-01-19T00:07:58+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/california/thumb-peak-ca/2022-01-18T19:46:17+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/california/pyramid-butte-ca/2022-01-18T18:23:51+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/california/snaggletooth/2022-01-17T21:26:47+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/utah/beaver-dam-mountains-high-point/2022-01-17T19:43:52+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/utah/lake-mountains-high-point/2022-01-16T00:22:44+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/utah/frary-peak/2022-01-13T19:12:03+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/idaho/mount-harrison-id/2022-01-12T18:37:44+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/mount-schofield/2021-12-18T07:09:55+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/natapoc-mountain/2021-12-08T19:23:08+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/vancouver-island/alexandra-peak/2021-12-06T19:25:42+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/lookout-mountain-bellingham/2021-12-03T07:19:29+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/dickson-peak/2021-11-27T06:01:11+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sunshine-coast/mount-varley/2021-11-25T07:56:34+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/mount-sproatt/2021-11-21T04:06:19+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/tonic-peak/2021-11-19T07:21:20+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/ottomite-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201122_102728.jpg20201122_102728Another photo of me on the summit. Photo by Maria https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201122_104029.jpg20201122_104029Portrait mode #1 for myself.. Photo by Mariahttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201122_093301.jpg20201122_093301Me on the trail. Photo by Mariahttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201122_img_3568.jpg20201122_IMG_3568Maria almost back at the parking lot. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201122_img_3564.jpg20201122_IMG_3564Back to the boring road plod... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201122_img_3563.jpg20201122_IMG_3563Having fun in the bottomless powder https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201122_img_3559.jpg20201122_IMG_3559Maria pointing at a major short-cut https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201122_img_3557.jpg20201122_IMG_3557Time to head down... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201122_img_3555.jpg20201122_IMG_3555Portrait mode #4...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20201122_img_3551.jpg20201122_IMG_3551Portrait mode #3..2021-11-11T19:09:46+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/selish-mountain/2021-11-08T06:54:30+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/okanagan/mount-laidlaw/2021-11-05T06:15:05+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/okanagan/peak-1431-sw-of-penticton/2021-11-04T20:57:07+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/okanagan/blue-mountain-penticton/2021-11-04T06:27:54+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/mount-olds/2021-11-01T18:27:24+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/mount-oleg/2021-11-01T05:53:48+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/okanagan/arrowstone-hills/2021-10-29T20:58:13+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/pavilion-mountain/2021-10-29T18:14:12+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/fons-peak-fountain-ridge/2021-10-28T18:55:57+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/arthur-seat-mountain/2021-10-28T00:23:16+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/pasulko-peak/2021-10-26T04:53:52+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/murray-peak/2021-10-25T22:17:02+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/mull-peak-murray-nw/2021-10-25T21:41:59+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/mount-archibald/2021-10-25T20:28:24+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/baby-munday-peak/2021-10-25T05:47:41+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/stewart-peak/2021-10-25T05:16:43+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/knight-peak/2021-10-22T17:17:42+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/frosty-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20120907_190218.jpg20120907_190218This is that bridge where the trail crosses the (narrowest section) of the lakehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20120907_190205.jpg20120907_190205Another view from Lightning Lakehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20120907_183936.jpg20120907_183936Down to Lightning Lakehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20120907_181723.jpg20120907_181723Not the most pleasant forest travel...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20120907_175356.jpg20120907_175356Lightning Lake appears like 3 lakes from here, but actually just one.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20120907_175254.jpg20120907_175254One last look at the east peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20120907_175233.jpg20120907_175233One of the many larches aroundhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20120907_175055.jpg20120907_175055Plunging down into the treeshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20120907_174919.jpg20120907_174919This thick layer of cloud was hovering around for all day...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20120907_174916.jpg20120907_174916Looking back at my tracks2021-10-17T02:48:28+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/flat-top-mountain/2021-10-11T05:45:08+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/mount-thynne/2021-10-06T18:41:01+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/guardian-peak-south-face/2021-10-06T01:40:12+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/mount-kennedy/2021-10-01T18:40:56+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/otter-mountain/2021-10-01T18:18:08+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/mount-spearing/2021-10-01T04:38:07+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/boulder-mountain-tulameen/2021-09-30T20:14:13+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/mount-riddell/2021-09-30T18:54:27+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/mount-rabbitt/2021-09-30T18:22:40+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/grasshopper-mountain/2021-09-30T06:42:40+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/blue-mountain-maple-ridge/2021-09-30T05:43:20+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/jeffrey-peak/2021-09-27T06:01:04+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/fraser-valley/mount-agassiz/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/img_2936.jpgIMG_2936Our group shot on Mt. Agassiz. A classic dumpster diving summit... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/img_2104.jpgIMG_2104We went beyond the summit to explore another highpointhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/img_2934.jpgIMG_2934The town of Agassiz and the agricultural land in this general areahttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/img_2932.jpgIMG_2932A zoomed-in view of Cheam Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/img_2100.jpgIMG_2100Fraser Valley from the summit of Mt. Agassizhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/img_2095.jpgIMG_2095Adam bushwhacking on the broad NE Ridge. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/img_2093.jpgIMG_2093As much as the Mt. Woodside FSR goes. Smooth sailinghttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/img_2091.jpgIMG_2091Taco climbing high.... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/img_2089.jpgIMG_2089A view into Fraser Valley from the lower Mt. Woodside FSRhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/dscn5557.jpgDSCN5557Harrison Lake from lower Campbell Lake trail in December 20092021-09-27T04:06:38+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/north-shore-mountains/cathedral-mountain-north-vancouver/2021-09-23T20:54:23+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/north-shore-mountains/mount-burwell/2021-09-23T18:14:49+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/north-shore-mountains/coliseum-mountain-north-vancouver/2021-09-23T17:33:30+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/north-shore-mountains/paton-peak/2021-09-23T05:15:39+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/colfax-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/img_2212.jpgIMG_2212The boot-pack was long and tedious at the end. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/img_2207.jpgIMG_2207Skiing onto the "hogback" and we soon bailed skier's left of ithttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/img_2205.jpgIMG_2205Lukas trying to make some turns on the still-icy snowhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/img_2197.jpgIMG_2197Looking down at the Glacier Creek valley where we came fromhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/img_2196.jpgIMG_2196The NW Face of Colfax Peak boasts a few classic ice/mixed routeshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/img_2193.jpgIMG_2193Lincoln Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/img_2191.jpgIMG_2191As typical as what you see on a Mt. Baker's trip... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/img_2186.jpgIMG_2186Impressive glacial scenery on Coleman Glacierhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/img_2180.jpgIMG_2180As you can see the condition was rough for skiers... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/img_2170.jpgIMG_2170The seracs are massive... 2021-09-23T01:09:52+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/mount-murchison/2021-09-19T00:48:09+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/mount-bogart/2023-06-25T13:23:56+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/south-rockies/mount-alderson/2021-09-19T00:46:31+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/south-rockies/buchanan-peak/2021-09-19T00:46:23+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/south-rockies/mount-carthew/2021-09-19T00:46:15+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/david-thompson/marmota-peak/2021-09-19T00:45:38+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/david-thompson/corona-ridge/2021-09-19T00:45:30+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/north-towers-of-saskatchewan/2021-09-19T00:44:50+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/icefield-parkway/mount-saskatchewan/2021-11-18T22:29:34+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/okanagan/dufferin-hill/2021-09-19T00:43:52+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/okanagan/mount-armour/2021-09-19T00:43:30+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/montana/mount-gould/2021-09-19T00:42:01+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/montana/reynolds-mountain/2021-09-19T00:41:17+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/montana/mount-oberlin/2021-09-19T00:40:44+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/mount-fitzwilliam/2021-09-19T00:39:59+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/bucephalus-peak/2021-09-19T00:39:51+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/frontier-peak/2021-09-19T00:39:44+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/mount-clairvaux/2021-09-19T00:39:35+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/elpoca-mountain/2021-09-19T00:38:46+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/bc-rockies/resplendent-mountain/2021-09-19T00:38:03+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/big-sister/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/big-sister1.jpgBig-SisterBig Sister standard scramble route2021-09-19T00:37:21+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/canadian-rockies/kananaskis/mount-burns-east-peak/2021-09-19T00:36:52+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/north-shore-mountains/west-lion/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/lions.jpgLionsWest Lion and East Lion standard route from Lions Bay GPX DL2021-09-19T00:36:10+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/north-shore-mountains/east-lion/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/lions-1.jpgLionsEast Lion and West Lion standard routes. GPX DL2021-09-19T00:35:40+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/sky-pilot-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/sky-pilot-and-copilot.jpgSky-Pilot-and-CopilotSky Pilot and Copilot from Shannon Basin. GPX DL2021-09-19T00:34:32+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/the-copilot/2021-09-19T00:34:23+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/castle-towers-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/castle-towers.jpgCastle-TowersCastle Towers Mountain via Garibaldi Lake Trail. GPX DL2021-09-19T00:33:46+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/mount-currie/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/currie.jpgCurrieMt. Currie scramble route. GPX DL2021-09-19T00:33:06+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/mount-macfarlane/2021-09-19T00:32:30+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/usa/washington/hadley-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/hadley1.jpgHadleyHadley Peak scramble route via Skyline Divide2021-09-19T00:31:41+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/mount-habrich/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/habrich.jpgHabrichMt. Habrich NNW Face loop. GPX DL2021-09-19T00:31:01+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/mamquam-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/mamquam.jpgMamquamMamquam Mountain standard summer route. GPX DLhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120504_200933.jpg20120504_200933One last view before entering the bushwhacking part... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120504_195930.jpg20120504_195930An impressive peak abovehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120504_194757.jpg20120504_194757Had to wonder around to find the best wayhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120504_194752.jpg20120504_194752Traversing on this broad shoulderhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120504_194725.jpg20120504_194725One of the few tarnshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120504_192843.jpg20120504_192843From the shoulder of Manic Peak, looking towards Darling Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120504_192834.jpg20120504_192834One last look at Darling Lakehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120504_192230.jpg20120504_192230Done the talus slope, looking back... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120504_181253.jpg20120504_181253Onto the loose and tedious talus slopes... 2021-09-19T00:30:23+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/mount-weinhold/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120508_190452.jpg20120508_190452Dean finishing the tower challenge https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120508_190301.jpg20120508_190301Alex finishing the stemming move higher uphttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120508_185409.jpg20120508_185409Alex on the crux movehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120508_185253.jpg20120508_185253Ben showing the wayhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120508_184306.jpg20120508_184306Taking the challenge or not?!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120508_183715.jpg20120508_183715It's that tower section aheadhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120508_183156.jpg20120508_183156Slogging backhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120508_180545.jpg20120508_180545The N. Face of Mt. Tailleferhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120508_180538.jpg20120508_180538Bump 2 aheadhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120508_180535.jpg20120508_180535Looking back towards the true summit2021-09-19T00:29:38+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/mount-taillefer/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120508_204458-1.jpg20120508_204458-1Panorama at dusk. Click to view large size.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120508_204512.jpg20120508_204512Evening glow on Mt. Matier in the distancehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120508_204217.jpg20120508_204217A look towards Currie/Wedge direction. Black Tusk way in the distance on righthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120508_204155.jpg20120508_204155Evening glow! https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120508_204149.jpg20120508_204149The last bit of sunlight shone on our objectivehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120508_203925.jpg20120508_203925Sunset over the horizonhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120508_203900.jpg20120508_203900I have to say peaks here look similar to the front range of the Rockieshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120508_203854.jpg20120508_203854Mt. Seton to the Easthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120508_203852.jpg20120508_203852A closer look at Prospector Peakshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120508_203848.jpg20120508_203848Mt. Merriott2021-09-19T00:29:30+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/prospector-peaks/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120509_181734.jpg20120509_181734Back to the logging road slog... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120509_174338.jpg20120509_174338Can you spot Dean in the alders?!https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120509_174335.jpg20120509_174335Powering through the aldershttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120509_172958.jpg20120509_172958Oh the bushwhacking... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120509_163900.jpg20120509_163900One last look at these lakeshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120509_163407.jpg20120509_163407Beautiful lakes aroundhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/12140903_938735886201890_8757086588490375400_o.jpg12140903_938735886201890_8757086588490375400_oOur campsite. Photo by Deanhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120509_153405.jpg20120509_153405Almost down to the camp nowhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120509_151035.jpg20120509_151035Steep side-hillinghttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120509_144825.jpg20120509_144825Looking back2021-09-19T00:29:23+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/snass-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/snass.jpgSnassSnass Mountain via west ridge. GPX DLhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120510_181324.jpg20120510_181324Quite a few deadfalls on this trailhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120510_173522.jpg20120510_173522Back to the trailhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120510_171447.jpg20120510_171447The lake in Punch Bowlhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120510_170256.jpg20120510_170256The false summithttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120510_164133.jpg20120510_164133Typical scenery from this region I assumehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120510_164121.jpg20120510_164121One last view of Snazzy Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120510_164112.jpg20120510_164112Looking back at the summit blockhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120510_160027-1.jpg20120510_160027-1One more panorama. Click to view large size.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120510_160520-1.jpg20120510_160520-1Another panorama from the summit. Click to view large size.2021-09-19T00:28:49+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/mount-thurston/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120516_165004.jpg20120516_165004The Border Peakshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120516_164836.jpg20120516_164836Almost back to Elk Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120516_161940.jpg20120516_161940Slesse Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120516_161907.jpg20120516_161907Fraser Valley from this sub-summithttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120516_161855.jpg20120516_161855Arriving back at that sub-summithttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120516_154504.jpg20120516_154504Me on the forested summit of Mt. Thurstonhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120516_154203.jpg20120516_154203Looking back at the few bumps we just traversed overhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120516_152540.jpg20120516_152540The true summit aheadhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120516_152347.jpg20120516_152347The pointy Slesse Mountain in the cloudshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120516_151841.jpg20120516_151841Tomyhoi Peak in the States2021-09-19T00:28:10+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/elk-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120516_142546.jpg20120516_142546Me on the summit of Elk Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120516_142638.jpg20120516_142638Chilliwack Valley and some clouds formationhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120516_142631.jpg20120516_142631The connecting ridge leading to Mt. Thurstonhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120516_142016.jpg20120516_142016Almost therehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120516_142011.jpg20120516_142011Another look at the Fraser Valleyhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120516_141559.jpg20120516_141559The city of Chilliwackhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120516_141550.jpg20120516_141550Following the ridge cresthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120516_141507.jpg20120516_141507More about this trailhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120516_141504.jpg20120516_141504It started to open uphttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120516_140342.jpg20120516_140342Hiking up the trail2021-09-19T00:28:02+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/vicuna-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/vicuna-and-guanaco.jpgVicuna-and-GuanacoVicuna Peak and Guanaco Peak scramble route. GPX DLhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120520_145112.jpg20120520_145112Vlad down-climbing the crux sectionhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120520_144814.jpg20120520_144814The bottom half of the crux (aided by a plastic cable)https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120520_143045-1.jpg20120520_143045-1One more panorama from the summit. Click to view large size.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120520_142902-1.jpg20120520_142902-1Another panorama from the summit. Click to view large size.https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120520_143212.jpg20120520_143212Me on the summit of Vicuna Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120520_143105.jpg20120520_143105Alpaca Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120520_143102.jpg20120520_143102Bighorn Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120520_142754.jpg20120520_142754Looking up the Fraser River valley towards Lytton area, including Stein Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120520_142750.jpg20120520_142750Scuzzy Mountain (fg, L) and Mehatl Peak (bg, R)2021-09-19T00:26:43+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/bc-cascades/guanaco-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120520_174234.jpg20120520_174234The logging road walk at the endhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120520_172801.jpg20120520_172801One of the few creek crossings on the roadhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120520_164111.jpg20120520_164111Back onto the trailhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120520_163727.jpg20120520_163727And then, the natural staircases https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120520_161216.jpg20120520_161216Vlad descending some giant staircases https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120520_160940.jpg20120520_160940Looking over the shoulder of Guanacohttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120520_160935.jpg20120520_160935Vlad hiking downhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120520_160930.jpg20120520_160930Looking back towards Guanaco Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120520_153616.jpg20120520_153616Me on the summit of Guanaco Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120520_155524.jpg20120520_155524Rolling hills 2021-09-19T00:26:37+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/mount-seton/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/seton-to-modal.jpgSeton-to-ModalMt. Seton, Saddlebag Peak, Modal Peak traverse. GPX DLhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/seton-to-modal2.jpgSeton-to-ModalMt. Seton, Saddlebag Peak and Modal Peak traverse routehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120523_160357.jpg20120523_160357The last summit ridge of Seton E2https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120523_155953.jpg20120523_155953Higher up on Seton E2https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120523_155358.jpg20120523_155358One last view of Ostinato Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120523_154404.jpg20120523_154404Not sure if that tower has a namehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120523_154358.jpg20120523_154358The final slog towards Seton E2 (and into the clouds again)... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120523_154356.jpg20120523_154356I think that peak is Seton E3. The steep slope of Seton E2 on the righthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120523_154349.jpg20120523_154349A view of Ostinato Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120523_152146.jpg20120523_152146It's not over yet... 2021-09-19T00:25:55+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/saddlebag-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120523_160639.jpg20120523_160639"Great" views from the summit of Saddlebag Peak (Seton E2)https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120523_155953.jpg20120523_155953Higher up on Saddlebag Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120523_160357.jpg20120523_160357The final summit ridgehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120523_155358.jpg20120523_155358One last look at Ostinato Peak before entering the clouds againhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120523_154358.jpg20120523_154358The typical slog on Saddlebag Peak (Seton E2)https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120523_154404.jpg20120523_154404Not sure if that tower has a name..https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120523_154349.jpg20120523_154349Another brief weather window allowed me to look at Ostinato Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120523_154356.jpg20120523_154356I think that peak is Seton E3https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120523_152146.jpg20120523_152146It's not over yet.... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120523_143614.jpg20120523_143614The other side wasn't easy neither2021-09-19T00:25:48+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/pemberton-onwards/modal-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120523_194119.jpg20120523_194119Gorgeous evening colourshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120523_191157.jpg20120523_191157Back onto the trailhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120523_185937.jpg20120523_185937Neat waterfalls https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120523_185436.jpg20120523_185436Into the gully, nothing trickyhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120523_183617.jpg20120523_183617It's a very foreshortened bowlhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120523_183159.jpg20120523_183159Looking back up this bowlhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120523_181839.jpg20120523_181839Down into the bowlhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120523_181659.jpg20120523_181659Not just the rock quality, the scenery here also felt like the Rockieshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120523_181654.jpg20120523_181654The slope on Modal Peakhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120523_181652.jpg20120523_181652One last look at Seton E22021-09-19T00:25:41+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/mount-weart/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/weart-cook-moe.jpgWeart,-Cook,-MoeMt. Weart, Mt. Cook and Mt. Moe from Wedgemount Lake. GPX DLhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120528_194603.jpg20120528_194603Another shot of the duskhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120528_194254.jpg20120528_194254Dusk over the horizon https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120528_194241.jpg20120528_194241Evening glow on the tip of Wedge Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120528_194233.jpg20120528_194233Evening glow on Mt. Cookhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120528_193808.jpg20120528_193808This glacial tone and the tarn with icebergs https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120528_192910.jpg20120528_192910Started to see Wedgemount Lake againhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120528_191333.jpg20120528_191333The same glacier, in this lower basin https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120528_191143.jpg20120528_191143Down to the toe of this glacierhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120528_190536.jpg20120528_190536The upper glacier2021-09-19T00:25:03+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/mount-cook/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120529_132923-1.jpg20120529_132923-1Another panorama from the summit. Click to view large size. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120529_132732.jpg20120529_132732Me on the summit of Mt. Cookhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120529_132857.jpg20120529_132857The very steep N. Face of Mt. Cookhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120529_132540.jpg20120529_132540Lesser Wedge Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120529_132533.jpg20120529_132533Wedgemount Glacierhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120529_132530.jpg20120529_132530A closer look at Wedge Mountain and its NE Arete https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120529_132357.jpg20120529_132357Overseer Mountain on left skylinehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120529_132350.jpg20120529_132350In the distance behind Ipsoot is Monmount Mountain - one of the closest 3000+ m objectiveshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120529_132340.jpg20120529_132340Mt. Sampson is another huge onehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120529_132336.jpg20120529_132336Whitecap Mountain looms behind the triple summits of Birkenhead Peak2021-09-19T00:24:57+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/mount-moe/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20200509_img_0745.jpg20200509_IMG_0745The Ashlu-Elaho Divide at dusk. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20200509_img_0744.jpg20200509_IMG_0744The sunset was in between Elaho Mtn. and Manatee Peak/Wahoo Towerhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20200509_img_0741.jpg20200509_IMG_0741The big peak at center is Overseer Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20200509_img_0689.jpg20200509_IMG_0689Sunset over the Clendinning skylinehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20200509_img_0688.jpg20200509_IMG_0688This is Mt. Cookhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20200509_img_0686.jpg20200509_IMG_0686Evening glow on Mt. Wearthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20200509_img_0685.jpg20200509_IMG_0685Evening alpenglow on The Owlshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20200509_img_0682.jpg20200509_IMG_0682After more than 1 hour on the summit we finally got that sunset viewhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20200509_img_0566.jpg20200509_IMG_0566Me on the summit of Mt. Moe, for the second time...https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20200509_img_0530.jpg20200509_IMG_0530Our camp site at Weart/Moe col2021-09-19T00:24:49+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/cougar-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/cougar2.jpgcougarCougar Mountain hiking route. https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120601_191439.jpg20120601_191439Sunset over Leading Peak (Anvil Island)https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120601_191423.jpg20120601_191423Porteau Cove along the Sea-to-Sky Highwayhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120601_154606.jpg20120601_154606A closer look at Mt. Moehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120601_154438.jpg20120601_154438Looking back before entering the foresthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120601_153838.jpg20120601_153838Ure Peak between Currie and Wedgemounthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120601_153834.jpg20120601_153834Wedge Mountain with Rethel Mountain in fronthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120601_153831.jpg20120601_153831Mt. Moe, Mt. Cook with Mt. Weart behind - three peaks that I ascended last weekendhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120601_150634.jpg20120601_150634Simon down-climbing the crux using a rope as hand-linehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/20120601_143212-1.jpg20120601_143212-1Another panorama showing the bluffy summit plateau area. Click to view large size.2021-09-19T00:24:00+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/empetrum-peak/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/empetrum-and-cinder-cone.jpgEmpetrum-and-Cinder-ConeEmpetrum Peak and Cinder Cone via Helm Creek. GPX DLhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120608_173541.jpg20120608_173541One last view of this creek. It'll soon freeze overhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120608_173026.jpg20120608_173026I re-crossed it further upstream on those bouldershttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120608_172954.jpg20120608_172954Here's that creekhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120608_172715.jpg20120608_172715Plodding across the Flatshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120608_172511.jpg20120608_172511Onto the Flats nowhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120608_172241.jpg20120608_172241More descending into the Cinder Flatshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120608_172009.jpg20120608_172009Looking back at my trackshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120608_171837.jpg20120608_171837Cinder Conehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120608_171307.jpg20120608_171307Panorama Ridge2021-09-19T00:23:11+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/cinder-cone/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120608_194844.jpg20120608_194844Into the forest... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120608_193132.jpg20120608_193132Evening glow on Whistler Mountain and part of the Fitzsimmons Rangehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120608_192632.jpg20120608_192632Wedge Mountain looms behindhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120608_192603.jpg20120608_192603Whistler Mountainhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120608_191851.jpg20120608_191851Looking back towards Helm Pass (R)https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120608_191311.jpg20120608_191311One last view from the conehttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120608_191256.jpg20120608_191256Duskhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120608_191151.jpg20120608_191151Looking back up my trackshttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120608_191141.jpg20120608_191141The last bit of sunlighthttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120608_191018.jpg20120608_191018The upper rise and my tracks2021-09-19T00:23:04+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.com/coastal-interior-bc/sea-to-sky/rainbow-mountain/https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/rainbow-and-gin.jpgRainbow-and-GinRainbow Mountain and Gin Peak via Rainbow Lake. GPX DLhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120614_155835.jpg20120614_155835Back to camphttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120614_154323.jpg20120614_154323Rainbow Lake in sight againhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120614_151001.jpg20120614_151001That unnamed peak is looking big againhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120614_151617.jpg20120614_151617Slogging backhttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120614_150952.jpg20120614_150952More views from this areahttps://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120614_150955.jpg20120614_150955Looking back at the boulder field I just descended https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120614_150353.jpg20120614_150353Negotiating that partially covered boulder fields required caution https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120614_150648.jpg20120614_150648Snow mushrooms? or not... https://stevensong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/20120614_150240.jpg20120614_150240Treeline views2021-09-19T00:22:23+00:00weekly0.6https://stevensong.comdaily1.02026-04-03T01:04:15+00:00