SOUTH CARIBOO TRAVERSE

First skied in 1984, it’s very popular. The route travels through the spectacular Premier Range, follows a good line and is reasonably easy to traverse. A short helicopter ride from Valemont takes you to the Gilmour Glacier, avoiding a horrendous bushwhack up Tete Creek.

April 1998 Doug Brown, Sandra Brown, Brian Schack, Fouad Abboud, Rick Collier. A traverse in a section of the Caribou Mountains from Lempriere Creek to the Gilmour Glacier with one major food drop near the midpoint.

April 2025 Premier Range. David Lussier and group. This was a variation travelling south to north, starting near Ojibwa Peak. Yellowhead Helicopters from Valemount. They travelled along the height of land East of Wells Grey Park via McAndrews Pass, the Raush glacier, and eventually the Canoe Glaciers. The South Canoe glacier was extremely broken up and required excellent visibility, top navigation, deep snowpack, and recent photos to manage.
From a camp near the toe of the North Canoe glacier, they ascended Sir Wilfred Laurier (the highest peak in the range) via the South face. Ascend the steep Southeast slope (75m and up to 45 degrees on good steps) leading to the Southwest shoulder near 2900m. A steep bottleneck between a large ice fall and the upper southeast ridge (100m and up to 40 degrees with ski crampons) at 3150m.Ascent of Sir Wilfred Laurier.