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New Year Fiasco in Kootenay. Part 2
Do you know that feeling when you first get up in the morning and for several seconds have no idea where you are or how you got there? I had this same feeling that morning just before I completely woke … Continue reading
Kayaking Copper Creek
A few days after the Hagen debacle, Rose and I went to Southern Washington’s Copper creek, which Patrick from Portland was nice enough to show us down. This is a short and mellow class IV with a couple of easier … Continue reading
Posted in Paddle, Trip Reports
Tagged boat, kayaking, paddling, washington, Whistler
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Valentine’s + Whitewater
Whitewater is under-represented in VOC. Hopefully this will change. A few of us are devoted to it. Nobody really talks about it. I don’t even know if anyone is interested in it. There aren’t really any trip reports. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Paddle, Trip Reports
Tagged boat, Epic, Face, fog, kayaking, Mud, Oregon, paddle, rain, Running, scrambling, washington, Whistler
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Team Bad Idea Doesn’t Give Up – The Return to Mount Churchill
Written by Dmitri Oguz and Marcin Mirski “ROCK!!!” Dmitri heard Marcin’s shout and looked up to see two potato-sized rocks coming down, quickly ducking below the overhang beside him. Not close enough to be scary, but close enough to hear … Continue reading
Posted in Climb, Trip Reports
Tagged 2wd, backpacking, Churchill Lake, Climb, Dmitri, Egmont, hike, Jervis Inlet, kayaking, Marcin, Marlborough Lake, Mt Churchill, multiday, paddle, Small Group, TBI, Team Bad Idea, Vancouver Bay
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Indian Arm – Sept. 27-28
Paddling Indian Arm: A Study Break There is only one good reason to wake up before sunrise on a Saturday and it is to go kayaking. I drag myself out of bed as the alarm drills it’s way into my … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, boat, british columbia, Climb, Deep Cove, dry, Feast, Granite Falls, Indian arm, kayaking, leading, motorboat, North Shore, North Vancouver, paddle, paddling, scramble, Weekend
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Beacon amidst Destruction(Kayaking)
Some destinations have a way of sticking in your head until you finally get there. I first saw Destruction Island on a road trip through Washington a couple years back and meant to go back and paddle there ever since. … Continue reading
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Tagged boat, dry, fall, kayaking, paddle, paddling, washington
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Cold Dark and Awesome-Deception Pass Dash 2013
“Dude,you’re nuts” said my boss when I mentioned that I’ll be racing in this year’s Deception Pass Dash. With the recent cold spell and temperatures into the -5 range and lower, when the only paddling I normally do is at … Continue reading
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Tagged boat, canoe, kayaking, paddle, paddling, turn around
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Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and my Monkey (or Not The Lead Ladder TR)
A ‘baby shower’ is something Brits see in American rom-coms but don’t quite get. Through my powers of deduction, it seemingly has nothing to do with putting babies in showers, nor is it an unfortunate meteorological event. It is in … Continue reading
Posted in Other, Trip Reports
Tagged climbing, Epic, kayaking, Lead Ladder, Running, ski, Weekend
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Sea Kayaking: Howe Sound June 1st-2nd
Written by Emily Rennalls On an average Saturday morning there seems to be little incentive to get out of bed. Yet as June cast its first beams of sunlight, just over a dozen UBC students awoke to paddle through mountains. … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, ferry, Horseshoe Bay, kayaking, paddle, Squamish, Sunshine Coast
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The not so cheap Juan de Fuca Trail (May 25-26)
This past weekend, Dmitri, Cora and I hiked the Juan De Fuca Trail. It was Dmitri’s idea, and he recruited Cora earlier in the week. I tagged along for the trip because I was headed to Vancouver for graduation on … Continue reading