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| Ideas for [[Car Free Trips |car free trips]].
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| See the following page about [[illegal trips]]
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| ==Trips by Type== | | ==Trips by Type== |
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| *[[Hiking Trips]] | | *[[Hiking Trips]] |
| *[[Skiing Trips]] | | *[[Skiing Trips]] |
| *[[Rock Climbing Trips]] | | *[[Climbgin Trips]] |
| *[[Mountaineering Trips]] | | *[[Mountaineering Trips]] |
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| =Trips by Location== | | ==Trips by Location== |
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| | *[[North Shore]] |
| | *[[Squamish]] |
| | *[[Whistler]] |
| | *[[Fraser Valley]] |
| | *[[Washington State]] |
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| ==Guidebooks== | | ==Guidebooks== |
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| See the [[guidebooks]] page. | | See the [[guidebooks]] page. |
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| ==Hiking==
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| Daytrips from Vancouver:
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| * [[Backside Trail of the Chief]]
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| * [[Needle Peak]]
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| * [[Mount Seymour / Mount Elsay]]
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| * [[West Lion]]
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| * [[Golden Ears]]
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| * [[Mount Brunswick]]
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| * [[Mount Harvey]]
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| * [[Williams Peak]]
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| * [[Rainbow Mountain]]
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| * [[Mount Rohr]]
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| * [[Colliseum Mountain]]
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| * [[Crown Mountain]]
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| Weekend trips from Vancouver :
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| * [[Howe Sound Crest Trail]]
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| * [[Garibaldi Lake and Black Tusk]]
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| * [[Three Borthers Mtn]] ''(Manning Park)''
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| * [[Russet Lake]]
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| * [[Salal Creek and Athelney Pass]]
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| Longer hikes :
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| * [[West Coast Trail]]
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| * [[Stein Valley]]
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| * [[South Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park]] ''(Gun Creek and Spruce Lake Area)''
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| * [[Indian Arm Loop Trail]]
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| ==Backcountry Skiing==
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| Some good areas for daytrips:
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| * [[Diamond Head]]
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| * [[Mount Sproat]] near Whistler
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| * [[Mount Rohr]] 1 or 2 days
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| * [[Cayoosh Mountain]] 1 or 2 days
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| * [[Needle Peak]] 1 or 2 days
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| * [[Zoa Peak]]
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| Good weekend trips:
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| * [[Rainbow Mountain]]
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| * [[Caspar Creek]]
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| * [[Steep Creek]]
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| A lot of backcountry skiing in the coast range revolves around going to [[huts]]. Some good huts to visit for backcountry skiing are:
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| * [[Brian Waddington Hut]]
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| * [[Burton Hut]]
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| * [[Keith's Hut]]
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| * [[Wendy Thompson Hut]]
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| * [[Elfin Lakes Shelter]]
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| There are also a number of popular ski traverses near vancouver :
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| * [[Garibaldi Neve Traverse]] usually takes 2-4 days.
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| * [[Spearhead Traverse]] usually takes 2-5 days.
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| Trips to and traverses of big icefields are usually reserved for the spring, but sometimes undertaken mid winter. The following have been done by club members in recent years.
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| * [[Pemberton Icefield]] 1 week
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| * [[Waddington Icefield]] 2-3 weeks
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| * [[Lillooet Icefield]] 2 weeks
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| * [[Monarch Icefield]] 2 weeks
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| * [[Misty Icefield]]
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| ==Rock Climbing==
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| Climbing within weekend range of Vancouver revolves around [[Squamish Rock | Squamish]]. Beyond that, possible destinations are :
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| * [[Skaha]] outside of Penticton
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| * [[Leavenworth]] in Washington
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| * [[Frenchman's Coulee]] in Washington
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| * [[Smith Rock]] in Oregon
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| * [[Red Rocks]] just outside Las Vegas, Nevada
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| * [[Joshua Tree]] California.
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| * [[Canadian Rockies]]
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| ==Mountaineering and Alpine Climbing==
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| '''Sea to Sky Corridor'''
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| There's tons of worthwhile objectives in the Sea to Sky Corridor north of Squamish.
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| * [[Wedgemount Lake Area]]
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| * [[Joffre Group]]
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| * [[Sky Pilot]]
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| * [[Tantalus Range]]
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| '''Fraser Valley'''
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| * [[Chilliwack Valley]]
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| * [[Chehalis]]
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| * [[Anderson River]]
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| * [[Coquihalla]]
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| '''Washington State'''
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| * [[Mount Baker]]
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| * [[Mount Shuksan]]
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| * [[Glacier Peak]]
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| * [[Mount Rainier]]
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| * [[Washington Pass]]
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| * [[North Cascades National Park]]
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| '''Other'''
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| * [[Cathedral Provincial Park]] ''near Keremeos''
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| * [[The Bugaboos]]
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| * [[Salal Creek Wall]] ''in the upper Lillooet Valley''
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| ==On Campus==
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| If you can get your fix through a brief stint climbing on anthropogenic surfaces...
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| * [[VOC climbing wall]]
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| * [[Bouldering at UBC | Bouldering]]
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| * [[UBC buildering]]
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