Garibaldi Provincial Park is one of those incredible places that is worth a trip from wherever you call home. It's huge, it's gorgeous, and it's overrun with peaks ranging from hiker friendly mellow walk-ups to straight up terrifying.

When I lived in Vancouver for a bunch of years, I probably spent just about every other weekend hiking. scrambling or skiing in Garibaldi Provincial Park. I was fortunate to get up a bunch of different peaks at different times, but one that perpetually eluded me was the Park's namesake - Mount Garibaldi.

I've tried to get up Mount Garibaldi a few times over the years and each time I failed. It was always for a different reason, but it just never seemed to come together. A couple of times I was doing the Garibaldi Neve Traverse and had aspirations of tagging the summit on the way by. The thing is it's a 400-500m elevation gain detour which is a big ask when you're already covering a ton of distance in a hurry and I just never had a group with me that agreed that this was a great idea. Another time we attempted the East Face route which Alpine Select called "the easiest route to the summit". Well, this Bivouac report should give you a an idea how it went. Here's a lovely excerpt from the write-up.