Fast day trip traversing across the summit of Mamquam Mountain.

Classic spring tour. Managed to ski off the summit.

Classic Spearhead Traverse variant with Ziff.

Warm day touring behind Whistler.

Beautiful weather for a tour across the Neve with a quick side trip of the summit of Garibaldi. Garibaldi is one long lake to ski across!

Excellent conditions in the Whistler Backcountry.

Another Blackcomb backcountry outing linking Vista Bowl and Decker Mountain.

Classic tour in the Blackcomb backcountry.

Celebrating Ziff’s birthday with a tour into the back 9. First time to the summit of Charlie Chandler.

Touring around The Spearhead.

Duffey powder.

Touring out to Oboe with Pascal.

Exploring a basin below Mount Cook.

Excellent day with a strong crew in the Blackcomb backcountry skiing Tremor Mountain & Decker Mountain.

Skiing Oboe and Cowboy Ridge during munchkin ski lessons.

Great skiing on Oboe.

Tree skiing in a quiet corner of the Duffey.

Last trip of 2017.

Perfect day of touring.

Birthday ski off Whistler

Good day of skiing on the Black Tusk accessed from Helm Creek

Still a bit early in the season but good views made it worthwhile.

Not my most successful outing. Too early perhaps?

Many of the great spring touring in the South Coast utilizes the vast resource road network throughout the area. These access routes change dramatically from year to year as new roads are built and old roads succumb to erosion. Social media and online web sources are an excellent way to get information on the current…

Words by Stephen Ziff, Images by Matt Gunn (Lea Zhecheva’s poetic trip report can be found here) The texting begins on Tuesday.  Unlike this past stormy winter, the forecast is actually great for the weekend and Matt mentions one of our unfinished goals for the season: the Tantalus traverse.  We think about a three-day trip, but…

Great overnight trip with Dan up the North Arete and down the classic couloir.

After three attempts we found good conditions on the face. Patience pays off…

Headed out with thoughts of steep skiing. Conditions didn’t pan out for the steeps but it was an excellent day for the traverse.

Another great day of touring with a good crew. We took advantage of the plowed Van Horlick Road but chose a route that provided access to a summit with minimal exposure to avalanche terrain. Good times!

Wilf and I had a great trip up to Watersprite Lake. Day one found us skiing four lines, three in the south basin and one in the north basin. Day two ambitions changed when we stepped out of the hut to find Wilf’s binding missing a toe pin, homeward bound! Watersprite Cabin Crossing Watersprite Lake…

Ziff’s birthday turned out well. We spent the day in the Squamish backcountry skiing couloirs and chutes. Ziff getting his first taste of Sea to Sky Gondola touring. Ziff preparing to ski a couloir on the northeast flank of Ledge Mounting. Northeast Ledge Mountain flank couloir. Heading up into the Nai-Ledgeling east couloir (curving out of site to…

Great times in the Duffey! Below Tszil. En route to the Tszil summit. Past Taylor, headed for Heart Strings. Ross enjoys first tracks down Heart Strings. Ryan on Heart Strings Ross on Heart Strings

Great trip to Callaghan Country for a night at Journeyman Lodge. We managed to get some excellent touring and spent the evenings relaxing in comfort. Looking forward to more time at the lodge! Preparing for a sled ride into the lodge. Journeyman Lodge, our accommodations for the night. Starting off with a tour up Journeyman…

Great day out in the Squamish backcountry. There’s some great skiing at Anif Peak. Mike and I ascended the yellow route and skied two laps identified in blue. There’s a lengthy logging road approach to get to this point which we shortened dramatically using a sled. Anif is accessed off the Mamquam Forest Service Road via the…

We set out with ambitions of steep skiing but didn’t find the conditions we were looking for. Spearhead day trip was the consolation prize. Hard to beat!

Great day touring in the Watersprite Lake area  

More good skiing above the Sea to Sky Gondola

Sledded up to Brohm Ridge for an afternoon climb of Mount Garibaldi. Incredibly cold and windy.

Ziff and I had a great day skiing along the Howe Sound Crest Trail.