It's Steele Saturday The name Mount Steele conjures up a mental image of a hard, forbidding mountain. In reality, a more accurate name would have been Mount Lupine, due to the thousands of purpley-blue flowers decorating its slopes. I don't normally start entries with the punchline, but this hike was a delight and far exceeded … Continue reading Mount Steele, 28-29 Aug 2010
The hottest day of the summer so far and we picked a long, tough hike with no lake at the end. It was a toss-up between this hike and Brunswick Lake and ironically the prospect of hiking several km of logging road turned us off that one. Rarely have we been so glad to be … Continue reading Alouette Mountain, 15 Aug 2010
How's this for something different? A hike from the UK, and a real one at that! My brother, Ewan, had suggested that we go to the Brecon Beacons during our visit. After a little bit of research we had worked out a decent little horseshoe hike to the highest peak in the Brecons, Pen Y … Continue reading Pen Y Fan, 21 Jul 2010
Some hikes come about as a result of tossing ideas about; some hikes just beg to be done when the time is right. This is one of the latter. With an upcoming trip to the UK where we'd most likely not see a single mountain, I had to satisfy my craving to 1) see glacier … Continue reading Gott Peak, 3 Jul 2010
As usual, the weather forecast for the weekend failed to meet our expectations, and with the high terrain still covered in a deep snow-pack, we sifted through our options for dull-day hikes. Petgill Lake seemed like it would do the job. Maria and I parked up at Murrin Provincial Park under gloomy skies. Crossing the … Continue reading Petgill Lake, 6 Jun 2010
Well we always said we'd leave this trail for a rainy day... Sure enough, the forecast said rain and for once they were not wrong. We met up with Dawn and took advantage of having access to two cars to do this one-way trail. We parked our car at the base of Grouse Mountain and … Continue reading Baden-Powell Trail, 23 May 2010
A new destination, not in any of the hike books, which turned out to be a great shoulder-season hike. Andrew had suggested it but then couldn't make it after an epic trip up to Vicar Lake the day before. We had originally thought of just doing the next stretch of the Baden-Powell trail since we … Continue reading Tunnel Bluffs, 16 May 2010
Also known as the way to Hector Ferguson Lake. The weather forecast for the day was excellent, and given the snow levels we decided on a pleasant walk in the woods. We hadn't really considered this trail before, but a favourable report from Ahmad on LiveTrails persuaded us that it would be worth a try. … Continue reading East Canyon Trail, 8 May 2010
We began the day at a guided bird-walk at Maplewood Flats in North Vancouver, before meeting Merewyn at Lonsdale Quay. We drove up to the trailhead, parked under the highway and set off. A pleasant easy hike, which we all seemed to need. After a while on a wide old road, the trail ducked into … Continue reading Capilano Canyon, 10 Apr 2010
The forecast was rain, rain and more rain but thankfully the forecast was wrong! We drove to Deep Cove, dropped off the car and caught the 10 am bus through to Phibbs Exchange, changing to the 210 which took us to within a block of the trailhead. The trail descended from the road to run … Continue reading Baden-Powell Trail, 4 Apr 2010
Being. Outdoors. 