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Heshquiat Peninsula 


Hecate Strait 
 

Mount Assiniboine 
 
Cape Caution  

Brooks Peninsula  

Cape Scott 
 
Kinbasket 
 
Great Bear Rainforest 
 
Brooks Peninsula 
 
Churchill River 
 
North Korea 
 
Sechelt Inlet 
 
Outer Coast  
 
TukTuk Nogiat 
 
Portillo Chile 
 
Bowron Lakes 
 
Zanskar, Himalaya 

 
Vancouver to Victoria 
 
Height of the Rockies 
 
Green River 
 
Churchill River 
 
Alsek River  
 
Haida Gwaii 
 

High Uintas Goat Trip   
 
Muskwa Kechika 
 
Lost Coast 
 
Caucasus Traverse 

Sneffles Range 

Saba 
 
Axel Heiberg  

Flathead  
 
Kyukout Sound 
 
Darkwoods 
 
Haida Gwaii  

Purcell Mountains 
 
Haika Archipelago 
 
French Alps  
 
Purcell Traverse  
 
Finley / Dutch Creek  
 
Alsek River 
 
Patagonia 
 
Lake Nahuel Huapi
 
Hess River  
 
Mongolia Horseback
 
Gobi Desert Motorcycle
 
Fisher Peak 
 
Galapagos Islands 
 
Slave Lake  
 
Tombstone Range
 
Northern Borneo   
 
Mergui Archipelago  
 
Iceland Coast to Coast 
 
Greenland East Coast
 
Grand Canyon
 
Mt Athabasca /
Mt Andromeda 

 
Hong Kong 
 
Firth River
 
Grand Teton
 
Grand Cirque  



Bali 
 
Bhutan, Darjeeling
and Sikkim 

 
Canol Trail
 

Tibet 
 
Cirque of the
Unclimbables

 
Nahanni River /
Burnside 

 
Blue Nile
 
Empty Quarter 
 
Denali
 
Mountaineering in
Canadian Rockies

 
Everest
 
Karikoram Highway
 
Arctic River Guiding

 
Belize  

Swiss Mountaineering
 

Yamnuska Mountain
Skills Semester  

 
West Coast
Sea Kayaking

 
Ottawa River

Turned back by high seas during attempt to round remote headland on Vancouver Island, part of bigger project to paddle entire British Columbia coast by paddle board. 
 
First known crossing of Hecate Strait by paddle board (Hecate ranked most dangerous body of water on Canadian Coast; 4th most dangerous in world).
 
Winter circumnavigation by ski.
 
Travelled from Bella Bella to Port Hardy by paddle board, rounding legendary Cape Caution. 

Rounded most westerly point in North America by paddle board. 
 
First known rounding of Vancouver Island's notorious headland by paddle board, 
 
28-day canoe journey with young family through remote British Columbia.
 
Followed ancient 'grease trail' route by paddle board, with Norm Hann.
 
18-day sea kayak voyage on outer BC coast with young family.
 
Three week canoe journey across Northern Saskatchewan.
 
Visited the forbidden kingdom on assignment for Outside.
 
Two week sea kayak journey with young family.
 
SUP solo from Port Hardy to Tofino, along outer coast of Vancouver Island. 
 
Canadian Geographic expedition, documenting remote Canadian National Park in Nunavut.
 
Globe and Mail assignment covering hidden ski area high in Chilean Andes.
 
Ten day canoe journey with young family in Northern British Columbia
 
Travelled overland with young family, from British Columbia to the Buddhist monastery, where we lived for three months.
 
By paddleboard, from Vancouver to Victoria (150 km).
 
Winter ski traverse of Elk River headwaters.
 
12-day canoe trip with young family through Utah’s Grand canyon lands.
 
14-day canoe journey through remote headwaters of Churchill River in northern Saskatchewan.
 
Guided RFK Jr. down class IV Alsek River in Canadian Yukon.
 
Sea Kayak traverse of Gwaii Haanas National Park, culminating in witnessing raising of Legacy Pole at Windy Bay.
 
10-day, 160 kilometre father/5-year-old son trek through Utah’s Highline Wilderness, with goats.
 
12-day horseback in remote northern BC wilderness.
 
Mountain bike journey through California’s hidden Lost Coast region.
 
80-day traverse of Republic of Georgia’, with horses and young family (ages 10 months & 3 years).
 
Winter ski traverse in Colorado, including ascent of Mt Hayden.
 
Diving and hiking in Dutch Antilles, on assignment for Globe & Mail.
 
Rare traverse of this desolate island in Canada’s high arctic islands (12 days).
 
Winter ski traverse of South Eastern BC..
 
10-day family journey— including grandmother and 3 year old— on outer coast of Vancouver Island.
 
Winter ski traverse of this mysterious landscape near Salmo BC, for Canadian Geographic.
 
10-day surf journey to northern cape of Haida Gwaii, in December.
 
Winter Ski traverse (10 days).
 
Two weeks traversing BC’s Central Coast by sea kayak.
 
3 weeks by bike through the Alps, Luberon, and Beaune Provinces.
 
12-days by foot through remote mountains, carrying one-year-old son.
 
Exploring Purcell Wildernss Conservancy by foot 8 days.
 
12-day raft trip on Class IV Arctic river.
 
2 months trekking in Torres del Paine and El Chalten, with wife and 10-month-old son.
 
Argentina 10-day sea kayak journey along southern shore, with infant son.
 
Canoe descent of rarely-travelled class IV Yukon river.
 
Three month horseback journey traversing northern frontierlands with Russia.
 
6-week travelling on WWII-era Russian motorcycle with side car, through the Gobi desert.
 
Canadian Rockies  Winter Ascent.
 
Photographic assignment with Outpost Magazine.
 
Winter Ski Traverse, hauling sleds.
 
Trekking in northern Yukon.
 
6-week sea kayaking journey, traversed 530 kilometres of roadless coastline.
 
21-day sea kayak journey through rarely visited tropical islands in southern Myanmar.
 
37-day trek, crossing icecap, lava fields, deserts, and canyonlands; travelled 870 km.
 
Exploration of ScorsbySund, world’s largest fiord.  Travelled 480 km in 26 days by sea kayak.
 
18-day journey, paddling whitewater kayak.
 
Winter ascents in Canadian Rockies.
 

Sea kayak journey around Sai Kung peninsula.
 
Guided rafting expedition through British Mountains, on Yukon’s north slope.

Ascent by upper Exum route.
 
1500 kilometre / 65 day circumnavigation of British Columbia’s southern coast range.  Travelled by sea kayak, foot, and raft.  Climbed Mt. Waddington (highest peak in southern Coast Range) en route, and rafted through Hell’s Gate.
 
Surf Photography assignment.
 
Guided trekking journey in Himalayan foothills.
 

380 km / 18-day.  First unsupported traverse of rugged route crossing Mackenzie Mountains  of Yukon/NWT.
 
18 days on Chang Tang plateau, in preparation for foot crossing.
 
Guiding hiking journey in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
 

 Commercial guiding.
 

45-day descent of Ethiopia’s Blue Nile Gorge by raft with National Geographic. 
 
1100 kilometre crossing of Arabia’s southern sand desert by camel.
 
West Buttress route, reached summit twice from high camp.
 
Ascents include Mt. Columbia (East Ridge, winter), Mt. Stanley (North Face), Mt. Edith Cavell (East Ridge).
 
Communications Coordinator for Canadian Team on South Col route.
 
Two-month mountain bike journey through northern Pakistan.
 
300+ days leading rafting and canoe expeditions on northern rivers including the Tatshenshini, Nahanni, Burnside, and Firth.
 
100+ days guiding sea kayaking and jungle river trips, including expeditions to Guatemalan jungle.
 
Winter ascents of Alphubel (East Ridge, 4225m), Allalinhorn (Standard route, 4012m), Rimphleshorn (S.E. ridge, 4187m), Strahlahorn (4212m)
 
Participant in 100-day mountaineering course, 
 

100+ days guiding commercial trips in Gulf Islands / Johnstone Straight.  

 
2 seasons, Whitewater Raft Guide, Ontario, Canada

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