LatestSilvertip MountainOctober 16, 2026

Wandering the Canadian Wilderness

Scrambling, hiking, skiing, paddling and riding — mostly in the Canadian Rockies, occasionally somewhere else entirely. Every trip written up with the route, the numbers, the photographs, and an honest account of how it actually went.

More about the site and me

Recent trips

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Top ten lists

All the lists

Thirteen lists — best scrambles, easiest, hardest, most remote, best ski tours, best backpacking, and the ten worst days I have had in the hills. A few favourites to start with:

The complete archive

931 trip reports written between 1999 and 2026, covering 1,122 summits, 1,241 vertical kilometres of ascent and 22,037 kilometres on foot, ski, bike and paddle.