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Pacific Spirit Ultramarathon
Date: March 24th, 2024 Participants: Noah Macdonald, Alex Beauchemin, Ine Østmo, Maiya Callister, Sean McKay TRIP REPORT: On March 24th, 2024, five VOCers set out to cover every trail in Pacific Spirit Park in a single push. No one in … Continue reading
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Tagged Pacific Spirit, Running, trail running, ultramarathon
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Rufus the Destroyer goes to Langley
Sometimes I worry that people are complaining that I’m putting up useless garbage that doesn’t meet the standards of a VOC trip report. But sometimes I get mail telling me that I’m not being sufficiently ridiculous, so here we go. … Continue reading
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Subterranean Shenanigans: Uncle of Underground
This November, a keen group of VOCers embarked on the first-ever Uncle of Underground – a trip from Vancouver to Port McNeill (involving 6 hours of travel to the northern end of Vancouver Island). Little did we know, this journey would have … Continue reading
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Tagged caving, fall/winter, Intermediate, Mini Gil, Resonance, Vancouver Island, Weekend
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Terrifically Tantalising and at Times Terrifying Traverse of the Tantalus by a Sexy Giggle of Pals
Group members: MJ, Lou, Simeon, and AJ Dates: June 22, 23, 24 (and also the 25th), 2023 Tuesday June 20th In the evening, we had a pre-trip meeting and decided that the conditions were good (supposedly the snow coverage … Continue reading
Posted in Climb, Hike, Other, Trip Reports
Tagged mountaineering, Tantalus, Tantalus Traverse, traverse
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Iron Chef Vol.IV
On October 22-23, we completed a long and tiresome hike up to the Brew Hut, the competitors were faced with the gruesome task of making the worlds best food with whatever ingredients were brought up. Our team, The Icy Marshmallows felt … Continue reading
Hot Spring Nov 9-10
A destination: Adam proposed we go to Keyhole because a VOC trip there last year was pretty good. I have had good trips and bad trips there. I didn’t want to carry all my stuff for a km or two … Continue reading
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Skiing and Sickness in Princess Louisa Inlet
March 21st-28th, 2022 Participants: Jessica Brown, YYen Gallup, Simeon Faehndrich, Ben Van Raalte, and Hannah Bates “We were somewhere around Barstow Egmont on the edge of the desert ocean when the drugs sickness began to take hold.” – from Fear and Loathing in … Continue reading
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Cousin of Cave V (AKA Underground Log Ride, But Without the Logs)
Day 1 – Friday It was a Friday afternoon. We met up with our car groups, excited to get going. I don’t know about the others, but our ride was packed tighter than – well, let’s just say it was … Continue reading
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Tagged Cave, Cousin, Cousin of Cave, River, Underground, Water
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Semaphore Lake – How to: Dance to keep your toes warm*
*All credit for the title goes to trip organizer, Will. The plan for thanksgiving weekend was looking great: hiking up to Semaphore Lake, base-camping there and going scrambling on the mountains around. And of course swimming in the lake! As … Continue reading
Posted in Hike, Other, Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged 2wd, first snow, hike, multiday, ski touring
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