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  • The highest peak in British Columbia's Coastal Mountains. Mt. Waddington's jagged peak and extreme isolation make it difficult to climb. Access is achieved via helicopter these days.

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    • At 4019 metres, Mount Waddington is the highest summit wholly in British Columbia. Though many of the mountains near Vancouver had been climbed, the ranges along the coast to the north were as yet unexplored by any member of early mountaineering clubs. After many attempts by expert climbers like Don and Phyllis Munday, who referred to it as 'Mystery Mountain', it was Fritz Weissner and Bill House who finally reached the summit in 1936.

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        "Mountaineering"
        F243-S1-f1-i(2) · 2007-03-09
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        "Trapper Nelson" may sound like an “old timer” from the Gold Rush. It was in fact a backpack — one used by any self-respecting mountaineer. Although later upgraded to lighter packs, as James Adam Craig describes in this article, a Trapper Nelson was great as it was spacious and basic.

        Here, he reminisces about his time in the BC Mountaineering Club from the mid-1950s to the 1970s. He talks of different packs as well as the necessities for camp.

        His article also speaks of Gary Gordon, Fr. Damasus Payne, Martin & Esther Kafer, Dick Culbert, Glenn Woodsworth, Arnold Shives, Alice Purdey and John Clarke.

        Peaks included are Mount Slesse, Mount McKinley, Mount Logan or Mount St. Elias, Lake Lovely Water, Tomyhoi-Falls River, Icewall Lake, Mount Waddington, Ape Lake, Blowdown Creek, Lillooet Icefields, Nirvana Pass and Stawamus Chief (“Squamish Chief”).

         James Adam Craig