Foot Ledge Tower North Face
On July 2nd of 2022 Nick and I rambled into the ledge basin looking for a small adventure close to home. We had skied past the...
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Jessie McAuley
- Nov 14, 2022
- 6 min
The North Ridge of Mount Ossa 5.7
The more I learn the Tantalus range's ins and outs the more I fall in love with this complex group of mountains close to home. Each...
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Jessie McAuley
- Nov 5, 2022
- 5 min
Down, Over, and Around on Mount Howard
Spring, Summer, and Fall. They seemed to whip by in a blur this year. The spring involved powder turns late into May and then wet coastal...
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Jessie McAuley
- May 9, 2022
- 16 min
Experience's of a novice Alpinist 2021/2022
Since I was a little boy the high alpine has been my happy place. Bounding, skipping, and laughing along meandering alpine ridges in the...
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Jessie McAuley
- Apr 7, 2022
- 8 min
The Whirlwind Season
Sometimes I feel like race results are somewhat unimportant and struggle to find meaning in competition. That said, the other half of me...
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Jessie McAuley
- Mar 17, 2022
- 4 min
Tread Lessons
Over the years I have spent a great deal of time pedalling around on mountain bikes. My mother and I moved to Squamish when I was eight...
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Jessie McAuley
- Sep 12, 2021
- 8 min
Of Ridge lines, Rivers and Everything In Between
Last Summer (2020) my good friend Justen Bruns and I completed a fifteen hour push of the North and Southern flanks of Mount Tantalus...
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Jessie McAuley
- Sep 14, 2019
- 4 min
Lost in Translation
As Katarina Kuba and I toed to the start line of the Bokami Zapadnych Tatier, a well recognized Slovakian ski mountaineering race, a wide...
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Jessie McAuley
- Mar 1, 2018
- 3 min
Backyard Exploration
Moving through mountains in tight clothes with feather weight skis, boots as light as my runners, and constantly looking ahead to hasten...
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Jessie McAuley
- Aug 21, 2016
- 2 min
Putting 'Mountain' in Mountain Biking
For those who did not read my post "Tread Lessons" this is sort of a continuum. During summer break of 2016 my 1:30 AM alarm blares in...
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