[xuanxier]

Full trip report: http://stevensong.com/mount-tantalus http://stevensong.com/zenith-mountain http://stevensong.com/pelion-mountain http://stevensong.com/ossa-mountain I don't know if it's possible to link the 4 major peaks on northern Tantalus Range in a single go but let's try. Finding partners is the toughest part and eventually I did gather a group but we only had 3 days so decided to skip the first day by choppering in. It's cheap.. Day 1 we climbed Tantalus via north ridge. I had previous spent a day researching and talking to people to put together this line and it worked out beautifully. It's not easy but not technically difficult. You need to be a mountaineer to do it but don't need to be a rock climber. Day 2 we hiked up Zenith, traversed down, up and over Pelion (NE - SW) that involves 2 rappels off the unknown SW Face. Down the unknown south glacier and linked up with Ossa's scramble route. Ascended Ossa at sunset and camped on its west ridge. Day 3 was a whooping 2200m cumulative descent down to sea level via Sigurd Creek. The bridge's out but river crossing wasn't a problem. Tired, but worth it. Took 1000 photos and that explains something...

[Gimpilator]

Tantalus seems like the Mount Shuksan of south BC, but even more impressive looking and difficult. We had a great view of it from Garibaldi. Thanks for sharing the photos and story.

[xuanxier]

Yep that's what I was thinking too. The profile of Tantalus also resembles Mt. Victoria in Rockies, but the overall challenge of Tantalus equals to Victoria and Shuksan combined, IMO.

[trent]

With that helo ride you missed the crossing of the Squamish:

And the Haberl hut is quite nice!

[cartman]

Steven, you are absolutely killing it this summer. Nice pics, though for some reason they don't enlarge much when I click on them (only griping since they're great pics and I wanna see larger versions of them...!) One could say that Matier is the Shuksan of BC, since they are both 9,131' high.