Have you ever had to turn back from a trip? After going through all the route planning, logistics, packing, heading out the door and… something goes wrong. Someone in the group gets injured or sick. Or weather turns on you so fast that your forced back. It’s hard. Hard to walk away from all that effort you put in, the expectations of what you hoped … Continue reading The Turn Back.

Well I have a chance to get a quick bag night before the end of November (and I will take it!). Managed to convince my cousin and my mate Jason to join in this short but exciting endeavour. Our plan is to climb Sigurd Peak in Squamish Valley BC. Forecast is looking so so. But you never know, we might luck out. So the bag is packed and … Continue reading Countdown

Climbing Mount Rainier has been on my mind and on my radar for a long time, all 14000+ feet of it. I find that it keeps randomly coming up in conversations, and not always by me. Sometimes someone mentions reading about it, or that they know someone who climbed it and suddenly my ears perk up. I have spoken with folks in my hiking and climbing … Continue reading A Dream of Rainier

So it has been said to me that sometimes I cut things a bit too close to the edge. But when an opportunity comes up to go and climb some mountains… what are you going to do. My big bike trip is now only 2 weeks away, seems like a good time to go on a mountain climbing weekend! Thursday night. 9:00pm. I come home from … Continue reading Toiling with Tolkien

So a number of months ago, my friend Bryty approached me about a possible trip to go check out a mountain range north of Mt. Currie BC whose peaks bear the names of various “Lord of the Rings” characters. It is an area I have wanted to check out for a while. We began to piece together possible dates, and a list of folks that … Continue reading A trip, before a trip