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Brewhahome: One Hut, Too Many Hikers
Trip Date: Saturday, January 11th to Sunday, January 12th, 2025 This report covers our trip to Brew Hut over the weekend of January 11th–12th. With 23 people in total, it was a successful trip with great weather. Trip Leaders: Duncan … Continue reading
Posted in Hike, Other, Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged backcountry, day hike, skiing, snowshoeing
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Snowshoeing to Metal Dome
Trip date: November 3rd, 2024 This is a report for a snowshoeing and backcountry ski/snowbaord trip to Metal Dome on November 3rd. Overall it was a success, with moments of clear sky for views. Early snow season was good althought a … Continue reading
Posted in Hike, Other, Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged 4wd, backcountry, day hike, fun, snowshoeing
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The Odyssey of the Pole People – Three Peaks Mt. Seymour Hike
The day began luminously in the darkness of Place Vanier. The bleating of our alarms forcing waves of horror throughout our heads. Bleary eyed we pounded the alarm until it shut up. We fell back into the warm arms of … Continue reading
Posted in Hike, Trip Reports
Tagged autumn, beginner-friendly, day hike, fall, large group, Mount Seymour
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Crown Mountain. 18 People. One SeaBus.
It all started with 105 Hikes In and Around Southwestern British Columbia by Stephen Hui. I borrowed it from the library in a sleep deprived haze of procrastination. And there it was. Hike #10: 4/5 quality, double black difficulty, 17 km round trip, … Continue reading
Mount Webb Hike
On Saturday July 16th, Nadia Tarazi picked Sri Bonthula, Anubhav Garg, Gordon Lim and me from UBC, departing campus at 6:00 am. With the rain on the way, the weather wasn’t looking too promising, but it magically cleared up right … Continue reading
Posted in Hike, Trip Reports
Tagged Chilliwack Lake Provincial Park, day hike, Mount Webb
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Gotha and Coburg Peaks
With the weather forecast looking prime and the mountains waiting for us, Marko Smitran and I set our sights on Gotha and Coburg Peaks. We started off our day by meeting at my house in North Vancouver, before proceeding to … Continue reading
Posted in Hike, Trip Reports
Tagged Coburg, day hike, Deeks Lake, Gotha, Intermediate
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Beginner Hike – The Chief
A week after joining the VOC club, I decided to create a beginner hiking trip to see how things would go. I first created a group chat through Facebook messenger to organize some logistics of the trip such as timing, … Continue reading
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Tagged beginner-friendly, day hike, day trip, First-Time, First-Trip, hike, hiking, Squamish, sunny
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Mount Seymour? More like Mount See-Less
It began with an early morning as two cars containing Beth, Isaac, Joe, Josh, Lucy, Min, and Sam ascended the misty winding road up to Seymour Mountain. The parking lot was apocalypse-like with few cars and a heavy mist blanketing … Continue reading
Mt. Gardner day-hike on Bowen Island
Although the meteorologists had lied again and it was not just light-showers but massive downpours in the morning, a large group of VOCers were motivated enough to meet at 6:15 am by the UBC bus loop, to start our … Continue reading
Stairs: An account of the Baden Powell Trail
After waking up at the obscenely early time of 5:30am on a Saturday, I made my way to the bus stop, hopped on to the first bus that came by and struggled not to fall asleep as I made my … Continue reading
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Tagged Baden Powell, Baden Powell trail, beginner, beginner-friendly, car-free, day hike, day trip, Dayhiking, daytrip, Deep Cove, ferry, Grouse Mountain, Lynn creek, Lynn valley, Mid Group, North Vancouver, Quarry Rock, rainy, Rainy Day, Spring, sunny, type 2 fun
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