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Howe Sound Crest Trail: Team Carrywater
Originally published on The Ubyssey: PLACES TO BE: HOWE SOUND CREST TRAIL ► By Justin Lam Photos Koby Michaels/The Ubyssey Oh boy, some beginner trip this turned out to be. As a new member of the VOC, it quickly became apparent to … Continue reading
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Tagged 2wd, beginner-friendly, Cypress, hike, Howe Sound Crest Trail, large group, summer, Weekend
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Black bear and white dog in the Pinecone Burke Day Hike
On Saturday, June 13, 2015, we set out to hike to the Dennett Lake in the Pinecone Burke park, and reached the Burke Peak shown as the yellow star in the following picture. At 9am we were still sleepy, but we spotted … Continue reading
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Tagged 2wd, beginner-friendly, Burke Peak, day trip, Dennett Lake, hike, large group, Pinecone Burke park, summer
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Erockita : Introduction to Rock Climbing
By Ella Weik Saturday, 21st March. A group of 20 bravely, adventurous climbers are heading bright and early to the smoke bluffs. No one else is around – because it is raining. Everything is wet and the sky doesn’t look … Continue reading
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Tagged 2wd, beginner, Climb, large group, rock climbing, Smoke Bluffs, Squamish, summer
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Day trip to Mount Seymour from Deep Cove – About expectations and reality
By Teresa Thoering Our day trip to Mount Seymour from Deep Cove started with meeting downtown in the morning. On the bus to Downtown I had time to think about the different understanding about hiking that obviously exist and I … Continue reading
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Tagged Baden Powell trail, beginner-friendly, car-free, day hike, Deep Cove, hike, Indian arm, large group, Mt. Seymour, Old Buck trail, Quarry Rock, Seymour Mountain
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Liquid Gold – A Brew Hut Adventure
There exists a legend of a treasure hidden away deep within the mountains of the Sea-to-Sky. It is a treasure as old as it is valued. It is a treasure of gold: liquid gold: liquid pleasure: BEER. Rumors echoed through … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, Anne, Brew Hut, dry, Firewood, Hope, large group, rain, Snow, Squamish
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Waitangi day Sphinx
With 23 officially ‘going’ on the trip and more besides, there was 30-ish of us all told that headed up to sphinx this past weekend, including several first-time ski-trippers. On Saturday the weather could not have been better. The sky … Continue reading
Posted in Huts, Ski, Trip Reports
Tagged First-Time, Glacier, large group, leading, powder, ski, skiing, Weekend
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19 Reasons to Host two Birthdays in a VOC Hut. Waddington Hut Dec 10-11
Dec 12, monday morning I’m awake much too early watching Breanne and Merick take off for another adventure. Disappointed I can’t join, I start trying to console myself with the reasoning that this past weekend was more than enough to … Continue reading
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Tagged 2wd, 4wd, birthday, Feast, Intermediate, large group, moonlight skiing, Mt Aragon, Mt Gandalf, pemberton, Phelix Creek, Phelix Hut, Photo Essay, shadowfax, ski touring
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2nd Annual Spooky Scramble – Baby Munday (Oct 29)
At 6am on Saturday morning, while most of Vancouver was sleeping off Halloween party hangovers, 17 VOC members were donning costumes in preparation to scramble up Baby Munday (2210m). The group met around 9am at the base of a 4WD … Continue reading
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Tagged 2wd, autumn, Baby Munday, beginner-friendly, costumes, daytrip, fog, Fraser Valley, Halloween, large group, scramble
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