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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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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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Still Got The Touch

TrevorSexsmith — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 04:33:00 +0000

June came and went really fast, it seems. Foster Peak took all the weather windows I had for the month. I wanted one more gnarly line to finish off the spring before firn snow skipping for the rest of the summer. The West Face of Foster beckoned and I was powerless to resist. At 3200m … Continue reading Still Got The Touch →

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Tumbling Mountain

TrevorSexsmith — Sat, 31 May 2014 22:48:00 +0000

After weeks of getting skunked by poor freezes, finally conditions line up perfect and a big line gets skied. Most likely a first descent. I first noticed this while lounging about at the top of 3/3.5 couloir (commonly called 3/4) at Moraine Lake last year, waiting for the snow to soften up for descent. I … Continue reading Tumbling Mountain →

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Mt. Weed

TrevorSexsmith — Sat, 10 May 2014 23:16:00 +0000

Photo: Kevin Annala, used with permission. This minor obsession with Mt Weed’s south face/ chutes started around Christmas this year. I was heading home and needed to get a gift for my parents, so I figured why not get something that might help them further understand my fascination with mountains. I can’t really take pictures … Continue reading Mt. Weed →

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Mt. Niles solo summit

TrevorSexsmith — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 23:26:00 +0000

This mountain had never really registered on my radar until I went to ski Sherbrooke lake. It’s just a really cool looking mountain with a wicked looking south face. Not gnarly, just really sweet looking. So since I’m recently parted with my fat freeride-oriented touring setup and just on my 90mm spring setup, I thought … Continue reading Mt. Niles solo summit →

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Boom Boom

TrevorSexsmith — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 01:24:00 +0000

Last spring sometime I noticed a nice looking skiff of snow in a couloir on Boom Mountain using Google Earth. I headed up in late May to see what I could see, but the views were fleeting and inconclusive. It was also obvious it was past season for it too. Over the summer I found … Continue reading Boom Boom →

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Fortitude Big Lines

TrevorSexsmith — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 21:36:00 +0000

My buddy Ryan and I went yesterday to check out a sick looking face in Fortitude, wow what an adventure. Steep uptracks, cornice tunneling bootpacks, ski traversing a face to get on the line and then by far, the most full-on skiing I’ve ever done. This is what we saw after we ascended Fortitude Ridge. … Continue reading Fortitude Big Lines →

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