Climbing & Skiing
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Little miracles on Rambler Peak
An account of climbing a prominent peak in Stratchcona Park on Vancouver Island over a very wet long weekend. It appeared in the Alpine Club of Canada's Vancouver Island Section's Bushwhacker 2005 edition.
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On glacier below summit
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Training for winter leadership
Every year, the Alpine Club of Canada and The North Face Co. fund a winter leadership course in a remote area of the Rockies. This article appeared in the Alpine Club's Gazette Spring 2005 edition and recounts 7 days of avalanche skills and winter survival lessons.
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Guide teaches snow school
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At the foot of the mountain giant
This article appeared in the Chinese magazine VOYAGE, which has over 4 million subscribers, and describes a trek to a 5,000m pass under the SE flank of the world's third highest mountain, located in Sikkim, India.
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The people of Sikkim
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The little matter of Mt Baker
The City of Vancouver's southern skyline is dominated by the 3,380m high volcano Mt Baker, just south of the Canada-US border. This article describes a 4-person climb of one of the mountain's classic routes - the Becky North Ridge - and appeared in the Alpine Club of Canada's Bushwhacker magazine in 2004.
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Crux pitch on the North Ridge
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A long weekend on the Golden Hinde
The Golden Hinde is the highest peak on Vancouver Island, at over 2,100m. Although technically difficult to climb, it is more its remoteness that makes it so difficult. This article appeared in the 2004 ACC Bushwhacker and described a challenging 4-day trip to summit one of the Island's toughest peaks.
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The Golden Hinde
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Beautiful people not wanted on the ice fields
This article appeared in the Globe & Mail and descibed a generic ski tour across the Wapta and Wapitik Icefields along the Alberta-British Columbia border in Banff National Park, Canada. Rather than an actual account, it was the combination of a number of trips made there, varying from perfect weather to #$%^#@ awful.
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Mt Balfour, 3,280m
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Trekking in the Tien Shan of Central Asia
This article appeared in the online BabylonTravel.com site as well as in a slightly fuller version in the the Canadian Alpine Journal, 2000 edtion. It was a short account of three weeks trekking and climbing in this remote area, which has been closed to westerners for so many years. Other aspects of the trip are described elsewhere under the Humor and Travel sections.
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Trekking in the Tien Shan.
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Whipped on the Wapta
An account of a spring ski trip I made with my 20 year old daughter on the Wapta Icefields in Banff National Park, Alberta. She was looking at those peaks and glaciers for the first time, while I was wondering why I'd spent so much time away from them. |
On the Wapta Icefields.
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King of the hill in Kazakhstan
This article was written for the Travel Section of Canadian national newspaper, The Globe & Mail. A local Kazakh travel company sponsored the First International Khan Tengri Mountain Festival 2000, the climax of which was a speed climbing event from 4,000m to the top of Khan Tengri (7,010m), and down again.
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The ultimate race.
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Seeking snow in Capetown
This article was written for GreatestEscapes Magazine. They asked for a winter story with a difference, and the thought of African skiing (is that an oxymoron?) came to mind.
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African skiing is different.
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Crazed race to 23,000 feet
This article was written for Great Outdoor Recreation Pages (GORP) and describes the speed race up and down Khan Tengri (7,010m), part of the First International Khan Tengri Mountain Festival in 2000, plus a parallel article on trekking.
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Khan Tengri from the north.
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Mountain high in the Tien Shan
This hiking article was written for Great Outdoor Recreation Pages (GORP), and describes a trek in the foothills of the Tien Shan Mountains of Kazakhstan, part of the First International Khan Tengri Mountain Festival in 2000. This has a parallel article on speed climbing on Khan Tengri (7,010m).
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Tien Shan trekking.
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Trekking the Tien Shan Mountains of Kazakhstan
This trekking story was written for GreatestEscape's January 2001 edition, and describes a 10-day trek in the foothills of the Tien Shan Mountains of Kazakhstan.
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Guide carries camp cook across.
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