Trip Date: May 7th-10th, 2024 Participants: Noah Macdonald, Charles-Antoine Leblanc Summitting and skiing Mount Robson has been a dream of mine for longer than I can remember. On May 9th, I fina...
https://www.ubc-voc.com/2024/05/11/a-ski-descent-of-mt-robson-kain-face-via-the-patterson-couloir
Brian Waddington Hut 2023 Roof Renewal, Phelix Creek Aug 5-7, 2023 Participants: Braydon Massoud, Quintus Zhou, Mykal Bakker-Westeinde, Sonia Landwehr, Jeff Mottershead, Jacob Grossbard, Haley...
https://www.ubc-voc.com/2024/05/03/phelix-hut-gets-a-new-hat-construction-weekend-2
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 re...
https://www.ubc-voc.com/2024/04/08/touring-tetrahedron-bikeski
The Thirteen Pass Route follows the iconic Skyline Trail from its start near Jasper to near its end, but before the Skyline’s final descent to Maligne Lake, the Thirteen Pass Route breaks off a...
Date: March 24th, 2024 Participants: Noah Macdonald, Alex Beauchemin, Ine Østmo, Maiya Callister, Sean McKay TRIP REPORT: On March 24th, 2024, five VOCers set out to cover every trail in Pacific...
https://www.ubc-voc.com/2024/03/27/pacific-spirit-ultramarathon
With a beautiful March 23rd weekend forecast predicting better ski conditions up high, our small but mighty “Steep Lines at Steep Creek” group of four (Alex Barth, Flavia Caprez, Ana Ciocoiu,...
https://www.ubc-voc.com/2024/03/26/mellow-lines-at-cerise-creek-steep-lines-at-steep-creek-vol-5
March 24, 2024 The Build-Up The Garibaldi Neve traverse needs no introduction. This 41 km gauntlet has been run by many a VOCer, often before they really know what they’re getting into with ski...
https://www.ubc-voc.com/2024/03/25/its-now-or-neve-reflections-on-a-single-push-traverse
Realizing I wrote this article for the journal but never put it on the website, so here you go! An 8+ month old trip report. Also, coincidentally very apt that this gets posted next to Jeff’s �...
The VOC has its share of glorious epics. Ideally these end up as a trip report or a journal article, and if they don’t, word-of-mouth only keeps them alive for so long. It’s always best if a ...
The following is a trip report about our (Anton Afanassiev, Ben Sommerfeld, and Ketan Desai) fairly chaotic and injurious trip to Kazakhstan that happened last summer. Also joining us were Anelia...