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Mount Farnham

TrevorSexsmith — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 02:35:09 +0000

This weekend’s sled access ridiculousness was Mt Farnham. No, not Farnham Glacier, but the mountain, the tallest mountain in the Purcell mountains. As the Purcells are kind of my home range with Kicking Horse located within, it’s a little bit extra personal. Load up the packs, load up the truck, drive to Radium and then … Continue reading Mount Farnham →

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Beaver Glacier Camp

TrevorSexsmith — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 01:47:23 +0000

I’ve been looking at Beaver Mountain for a while. I think I saw it from the Dogtooth Range in late season-July a few years back, and its north face looked like it should be a perfect steep canvas of white in winter. Of course, that isn’t the case, it’s a traffic jam of seracs trying … Continue reading Beaver Glacier Camp →

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Sifton

TrevorSexsmith — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 02:16:18 +0000

After the last few weeks of high pressure and warm, I had written off skiing at the pass. But apparently a storm came and went without registering on my radar, and left in its wake great alpine conditions. OK, let’s go skiing! Two guys from Golden and two from Revy met up at the discovery … Continue reading Sifton →

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Rockies XXL

TrevorSexsmith — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 04:12:27 +0000

Today I skied the longest run on the Trans-Canada: Mt Vaux west face. Two thousand meters of vertical, straight down. No flat section, no traversing, no trees to dodge, just a massive run straight down. If you dropped a ski, you could potentially have a very very bad day. A few days back I noticed … Continue reading Rockies XXL →

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Sorcerer Lodge

TrevorSexsmith — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 00:41:19 +0000

A few weeks ago, I was approached with an incredible deal on a week up at Sorcerer Lodge, so good that I couldn’t refuse. I was so stoked I hadn’t even cleared it with work before I committed to it! Anyways, things ended up working out, and before I knew it, I was on a … Continue reading Sorcerer Lodge →

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Wisdom

TrevorSexsmith — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:53:34 +0000

I’ve wanted these lines since I first skied at KHMR. They stare at you, nice and close to the hill, but with a much higher skill level requirement than the rest of the easily accessed rad terrain just out of bounds. Yesterday I finally got the Wisdom Tooth and the Middle Tooth. Luke and I … Continue reading Wisdom →

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Swiss South Face

TrevorSexsmith — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 00:31:28 +0000

Ho boy, another weekend of high pressure! Ian and I went to Hermit parking with the loose objective of something on the Rogers-Swiss massif. Once we battled our way up the infernal raincrust and popped out on the Swiss glacier there was already a group well up the Rogers headwall, and another swooping around to … Continue reading Swiss South Face →

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Ursus Minor SE Couloir (and others)

TrevorSexsmith — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:32:17 +0000

Damn, I love Ursus Minor! Such a cool climb up, from trees to a great bit of steep skinning up the S face, then scrambling up some difficult looking rock (emphasis on “looking”) to the summit. We went for the SE couloir, one of the lines I haven’t yet done on this awesome mountain. Based … Continue reading Ursus Minor SE Couloir (and others) →

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Destroyer of Worlds

TrevorSexsmith — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 07:11:14 +0000

Destroyer Peak, BC rockies. A pretty small peak of 2700m and change, but somehow maintains a rather large glacier. And two steep rad ice faces on the N and NE flanks. On the drive in, we were treated to a rather spectacular sunrise to the south: After the truck took us up the grueling, steep … Continue reading Destroyer of Worlds →

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The Friendship-breaker

TrevorSexsmith — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 06:00:43 +0000

Hewitt Peak, the friend-breaker, as I explained to Ryan last weekend. A long, brutal bushwhack to a south facing gulley on a peak that doesn’t have a lot of name cred and then all the way back out. Sure to break a friendship. So it was another solo trip for me. I woke up at … Continue reading The Friendship-breaker →

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