Edit Column June 16, 2024 SUGARLOAF STATSElevation 2456m high from sea levelProminence 640mElevation gain 1285m Sugarloaf Mountain is located in Pemberton Valley, approximately 16 km northwest of Pemberton, BC. With cloudy skies and some light rain expected late in the day, my hiking buddy Farhad and I made last-minute plans and decided to hike […]
July 1-3 Canada Day Long WeekendTyrolean crossing Squamish River, Lake Lovely Water, Mt Iota, Mt Pelops LAKE LOVELY WATER STATSElevation 1150m high MOUNT IOTA STATSElevation 1863m highProminence 52m MOUNT PELOPS STATSElevation 2015m highProminence 105m Our plan for the Canada Day long weekend was to camp 2 nights and hike 3 days. Knowing how busy it’s
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INTRODUCTION West Coast Trail often referred to as WCT in its short form, is located on the western coast of Vancouver Island in the Pacific Rim National Park between Bamfield and Port Renfrew. WCT’s astonishing landscape is a 75km hike along the west coast consisting of rugged and forested terrain, and sandy and pebbled beaches. I’ve
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Thrasher Cove to Gordon River I woke at 4:30am, peeked out my tent as the morning was about to start. I put on my warm layers as it was cool then went out of my tent to take some morning pictures. What a wonderful breezy morning! Was nice to hear the waves and birds. After
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Camper Creek to Thrasher Cove I got up around 7am. As usual, I was up before anyone else. Did my morning thing and had my breakfast. An half hour later, everyone woke up and did their morning routine. We began to packed up quickly as we wanted to hike along the beach to Owen Point.
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Walbran Creek to Camper Creek I woke up at 6am to the sounds of light rain drops and birds are chirping. As I was Still in my sleeping bag waiting for the clouds to clear and the sun to come out. Eventually, I dragged my butt out of my sleeping bag, out of the tent,
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Cribs Creek Camp to Walbran CreekAt 6:30am, I woke up to wash up, fetched water. Thery woke up and carefully went out of the tent without waking Karlie up. We were setting up and preparing Karlie’s surprise breakfast birthday. Thery blew like 10 balloons and hid them in my tent. I heated up the fully loaded
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Tsusiat Point Camp to Cribs Creek Camp 6:20am came along and up I was. The sun rosed a while ago but not quite hitting all the beach yet. The morning brisk could be felt. While the others were sleeping, I took a short stroll along the beach towards the outhouse. The early morning views of
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Darling River Camp to Tsusiat Point CampWaking up to the sounds of the waves and birds chirping was the best part of the morning. It was just before 6:30am. I peeked out my tent, and saw it was cloudy and it looks like it was going to rain. Josh was up quite early and he
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Pachena Bay to Darling River CampOur day started late waking up at 8am. We were in no rush. Josh and I were probably the first ones to be up. We lined down our dry bags of food and put them on the picnic table. Others began to wake up, washed up and made breakfast. It
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