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Trip Reports

Vancouver Island

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Trip reports and GPS traces by objective for Strathcona Park and the island ranges.

75 objectives indexed from 5 blogs, 2 of them with reports from more than one.

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Each entry links every trip report, video, or GPS trace the indexed blogs published for that objective. Hover a link to see the report’s own title, which is how combined trips and traverses show what else they cover.

Where an objective is on one of the four tick-lists, that is marked after the links: Kane and Nugara for scrambles and Don’t Waste Your Time for hikes, each carrying the book’s own grade, and the 11,000ers carrying the peak’s elevation. None of the three books is published online, and the 11,000ers is not a book at all, so every mark links to Adam Laycock’s page for that objective, which is the best canonical reference there is for one. Where there is a book, the route description is in it.

The line under each entry says who puts it where. Where the sources agree, that is one region with several names. Where they disagree, the objective is listed on every region page named, and the line links the others: the blogs file Bow Peak under both Banff and the Icefields Parkway, so it is on both pages.

A region marked inferred is not stated by any blog. It was worked out from where the blogs place the objectives around it: those climbed in the same trip, those a report links to, those near its trailhead, or those near where its name is on the map. Checked against objectives the blogs do place, these are right about nine times in ten, so treat one as a pointer rather than a fact. One marked weakly inferred rests on thinner or split evidence — a single linked report, a trailhead between two regions — and is only used where nothing else places the objective, so it may be listed under each region it could be in. Place-name positions are from the Canadian Geographical Names Database, under the Open Government Licence – Canada, and south of the border from the USGS Geographic Names Information System.

A

  • Adder Mountain — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Alexandra Peak — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map

B

  • Bald Mountain — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Baynes Peak — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Big Sicker Mountain — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map

C

  • Canoe Peak — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Castlecrag Mountain — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Cesura Peak — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Cottle Hill — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Crest Mountain — Golden Scrambles
    • Vancouver Island: Golden Scrambles; inferred from where the name is on the map

E

  • Elkhorn Mountain — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map

G

  • Golden Hinde — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map

H

J

K

  • Kings Peak — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Klitsa Mountain — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song

L

  • Little Mountain — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Lone Tree Hill — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map

M

  • Maple Mountain — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Merlon Peak — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Mount Abel — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Mount Albert Edward — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Mount Anderson — Steven Song, Andrew Nugara, Andrew Nugara
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Mount Arrowsmith — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Mount Belcher — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Mount Benson — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Mount Burman — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Mount Cain — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Mount Colonel Foster — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Mount Douglas — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Mount Erskine — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Mount Finlayson — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Mount Frink — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Mount Galiano — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Mount Geoffrey — On-Top
    • Vancouver Island: inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Mount Hooker — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Mount Horne — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Mount Hoy — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Mount Jeffrey — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Mount Joan — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Mount Landale — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Mount Lolo — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Mount McQuillan — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Mount Menzies — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Mount Prevost — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Mount Richards — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Mount Romeo — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Mount Russell — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Mount Schofield — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Mount Septimus — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Mount Seymour — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Mount Spencer — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • Mount Tuam — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Mount Tzouhalem — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Mount Washington — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Mount Wesley — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Mount Wood — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song

N

  • Newcastle Ridge High Point — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song

P

  • Phillips Ridge — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Pogo Mountain — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song

R

  • Reginald Hill — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Rugged Mountain — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song

S

  • Stockade Hill — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Sutil Mountain — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Sutton Peak — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song

T

  • The Behinde — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • The Squarehead — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Towincut Mountain — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song; inferred from where the name is on the map
  • Tribune Bay — On-Top
    • Vancouver Island: inferred from On-Top’s trailhead
  • Triple Peak — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song

V

  • Victoria Peak — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song

W

  • Warden Peak — Steven Song
    • Vancouver Island: Steven Song
  • West Coast Trail — Bob Spirko
    • Vancouver Island: set by hand

Reports are the authors’ own accounts of one day in particular conditions, not route descriptions that stay true. Check current conditions and carry the judgement the terrain needs.

West Kootenay

Trip reports and GPS traces by objective for Nelson, the Kokanee Glacier, and the southern Selkirks.

Not yet sorted by region

Objectives whose region no blog states and nothing else settles, published here rather than filed on a guess.