Tag Archives: skiing

Red Heather Chaos: Hot Chocolate Tasting, Overslept Alarms, and Tree Wells – A Trip to Remember

Posted on March 21, 2025 by AC Muller

Trip date: Saturday, March 15th Trip participants: Ann-Cathrin (AC) Muller, Sri Chaitanya, Diego Fernandez, Le Tra Mi Do, JJ James, Lucile Paschal, Eemaan Alam, Ellen Scott, Roseisa Weeraratne, Faisal Maqbool, Tristan Lefferts, Joanne Ho, Zack Peachell, Cecily Downs, Ivana Sanchez … Continue reading →

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Brewhahome: One Hut, Too Many Hikers

Posted on January 21, 2025 by Raditya Rizqia

Trip Date: Saturday, January 11th to Sunday, January 12th, 2025 This report covers our trip to Brew Hut over the weekend of January 11th–12th. With 23 people in total, it was a successful trip with great weather. Trip Leaders: Duncan … Continue reading →

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Touring Tetrahedron (bike+ski)

Posted on April 8, 2024 by Helena Sverak

It was the week before the Easter long weekend, and a ski touring VOC trip to Tetrahedron that I was planning on going on had just been canceled for reasons of snow conditions (for fairly good reason). However, my weekend … Continue reading →

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Zopkios, Zoa, Zum, Zupjok: No one cares about your Z-peaks, larva-breath

Posted on May 8, 2022 by Jeff Mottershead

This was my second attempt at doing all the Coquihalla Z-peaks. Last time I failed because I got distracted by camelid-named peaks and dog poop. The first half of the ascent from Zopkios brake check to the peak named after … Continue reading →

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Girlz Ski Gin: Narrowly avoiding disaster while everyone else has a lovely time

Posted on March 21, 2022 by Kyra Przybylski

That morning as I drove up the Sea to Sky, my car packed with skis and a couple other ladies, I breathed some sighs of relief as I enjoyed the view and blasted some road trip tunes.  I thought that … Continue reading →

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The VOC Gets Fancy at Kees and Claire Hut

Posted on December 25, 2021 by AJ Dreher

At 6:42 am on December 20th, I set a personal backpack-packing speed record in a frantic effort to stuff all my gear into my pack by 6:45, when I anticipated being picked up by Adam Rodrigues and Melissa Bernstein for … Continue reading →

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Overly Optimistic Outings lead to Truly Terrific Turns

Posted on October 24, 2019 by William Raleigh-Smith

We were surprised at the pretrip that only 3 people wanted to try to ski in mid October. Johan, Seton and I decided that the most likely place to get decent turns was up around Wedgemont lakes. It was predicted … Continue reading →

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Comox Glacier Trip, September 6th, 2019

Posted on September 11, 2019 by Devlin Mottershead

We went to Comox Glacier on this deactivated logging road that really bugs me when my dad’s driving on it because your head bouncing on the seat cushion feels like somebody is hammering your head. I got carsick and I … Continue reading →

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Soak and Stoke 2019

Posted on April 18, 2019 by Mirtha Gamiz

On March 22, a group of VOCers got together, thanks to Glen, to have a nice and relaxing weekend skiing in the mountains. Friday arrived, and after a week of hard (?) work, we departed at 5:00pm to have a … Continue reading →

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Frosty Garibaldi Neve

Posted on February 25, 2019 by Devlin Mottershead

We went to rubble creek, and when we were waiting, a guy crushed a speed-limit sign on his way to a snow bank. We met Atti and Ildi, who drove us up to the chain-up area at Red Heather. Ildi … Continue reading →

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